Nobel laureate accosted at peace conference – Examiner.com
There aren’t even words. Thank you Punky Moms for posting this. I’ve kind of stopped reading the news, well, because of shit like this. (You will remember last month, or a couple of months ago I posted a ton of Holocaust-related things, which seemed to be jumping at me from the news).
I still cannot believe people out there are still saying the Holocaust never happened. If your angle is to deny the Jews, then forget about the six million Jews who were murdered. What about all the other people? Right, if you don’t care about the Jews you probably don’t care about the handicapped, mentally ill, gypsies, anyone who wasn’t bond haired and blue eyed (by the way, my very Jewish cousins are blond and blue, there goes that theory!).
Bah.
Did you hear that they found a bundle of letters from Anne Frank’s father? Letters trying to get them out and into Spain, America. I guess they had been sitting on them for a while, but they will be releasing them on Valentine’s Day (which I think is kind of fucked up, why that day?). I can’t say I am not anxious to read their contents though. Morbid curiosity.
I’m not a Holocaust scholar or anything. I’ve always been interested in Hitler and the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Fascinating history, and we should be on our toes to see that it doesn’t happen again, to any portion of the population. Sadly, some of the same events mind-sets that helped lead up to that mess (that’s an understatement) are happening right now in places like Darfur (where entire clans are being wiped out), and even in the US (how many people want entire countries wiped out, regardless of the innocence of most of their populations?).
I guess that’s my soapbox for the day.
