{"id":102353,"date":"2020-07-17T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=102353"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:11:14","slug":"never-again-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=102353","title":{"rendered":"Never Again… NEVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USAAF Dogtags and Stalag Luf-1 Dogtags – courtesy of TOW and family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Disclaimer: I am not Jewish.<\/p>\n

My family history is mostly Breton, Gallic, Cornish and lowland Scottish. Probably Pictish, too, but that takes some DNA sampling. I might have a tiny bit of Heidelbergensis, too.<\/p>\n

But I don’t have to be Jewish to despise and excoriate someone who wanted to slaughter millions because his Jewish mother had breast cancer and the Jewish doctor who treated her could not cure it. There was no cure for it in the early 20th century, but it was the doctor’s fault that she died.<\/p>\n

Hitler was able to hone his skills as a pubic speaker and attract the younger crowd, who became his Braunhemden (brown shirts) and Sturmabteilung (Storm Division) when he wanted to get his rampages underway. He gave them free rein to be as destructive as they liked. (What do we see going on now?)<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, Stalin was no better, and ditto Mao Tse-Tung and Uncle Ho. They are all cut from the same cloth. I won’t go into the heinous acts of the Inquisition and the Catholic Church, or Mary Tudor’s rampages in her attempts to restore the Catholic Church’s dominance over England. History is full of such people, who seem to attract the worst kinds of idiots to support them. But my intent here is only to remind us all that what we take for granted on a day-to-day basis can easily be swept away from us if we don’t pay attention, even for a short while.<\/p>\n

Fair warning<\/strong>: Some of this stuff is quite graphic.<\/p>\n

Liberation of Dachau concentration camp by US troops \u2013 includes German footage shot before US troops arrived.\u00a0 Narrator: Mark Felton<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aRk2FZbsMxw<\/a><\/p>\n

The History dot com article below references the 29 April 1945 camp liberation. The photos were shot by US Army photographers.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/dachau-liberated<\/a><\/p>\n

Some of this stuff is quite graphic, as I said. The following comes from the liberation of Buchenwald. On April 11th 1945, the 6th Armoured Division of the US army\u00a0liberated Buchenwald\u00a0concentration camp, making its inmates the first on German soil to be\u00a0freed<\/b>\u00a0from the grip of the Nazis. By the end of the war,\u00a0Buchenwald\u00a0and its surrounding sub-camps made up the largest camp in Germany.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/holocaust-concentration-camps-photos#&gid=ci0235901a20012718&pid=holocaust-buchenwalk-104347705<\/a><\/p>\n

For anyone who still thinks it never happened, there was a girl in my company at RTC who swore it was all fiction because her grandmother, a German native who emigrated after World War II to America, had never heard anything about it.\u00a0 Some of the villages were within a mile of the camps and the residents had no idea that such horrendous things as mass murders and horrible medical experiments on human beings were going on.\u00a0 There are plenty of eyewitness accounts by those who were prisoners and those who liberated the camps and describe the sight of people who had shrunk to skeletal proportions but were still alive, and the foul odors of rotting flesh and decay coming from them.<\/p>\n

It was not just Jewish people who were sent to death camps. It was anyone who was afflicted with mental disorders or incurable diseases, or some unapproved ethnic group like gypsies. There was a list of “undesirable” disorders such as polio or epilepsy; just get rid of them.<\/p>\n

None of it ever appeared in the contemporary newspapers or other print media, nor was any of it broadcast on the radio.<\/p>\n

Guess who controlled the newspapers and other media?<\/p>\n

Come on, just take a guess.<\/p>\n

And then ask yourself what is going on here and now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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