thoughts on the Holocaust

toroddfuglesteg wrote: He has yet to post a review here.

not gonna argue anything else you wrote, but this hardly relates to what's at hand.  It took me months before I wrote my first PA review

I had no intentions of insulting you. I apologise for any offence done. But what I should had mentioned was that the Holocaust deniers tends to go to any forums to peddle their lies. That even including a forum for breastfeeding mothers before that forum was closed down. Hence; I thought that quak-quak from the pond was a duck and ordered potatoes and onions to my Bejing Duck dinner.   

The holocaust is one of the most disgusting things that's ever happened in the world.  I think about it sometimes; there's a great Rush song called "Red Sector A" that is based on the experience inmates would go through at the concentration camps.  Geddy Lee's mom and dad met in one of them. 

I made a really weird observation the other day; if there was no holocaust, Geddy Lee's parents might never have met in the concentration camps.  As a result, Geddy Lee might never have been born, and Rush might never have existed.  History is really, really screwed up that way. 

Of course, D-Day wouldn't have occurred, and WW2 wouldn't have, either.  I guess we would be living in a totally different world.

I think a lot of old Jewish folks who survived have real resilience, considering what happened to them.  When I was in middle school, my journalism class was invited to a symposium with a former Nazi foot-soldier and former Jewish inmate who had become friends in old age.  The Jewish guy was hilarious; he just said that his first reaction, when hearing about Adolf Hitler committing suicide, was "what a coward!"  Great guys, it was amazing to hear a firsthand account of their experiences during the Holocaust.  They were in their 90's, so most likely they aren't alive anymore.

Holocaust denial may be rampant in certain circles.  It doesn't change what happened, and it cannot diminish the sacrifice of those who gave their lives to end the Nazi regime, or the memory of those incarcerated by Hitler.

 

The extermination programs/camps hadn't yet begun by 1939, so this was not any sort of reason for WWII.

I hope nobody starts a thread on abortion. Then all hell is sure to break loose.

I just wanted to say that it is impossible to distance Hitler in any way from the Holocaust, because in Mein Kampf, he talks of pograms against the Jews-it was part of his master plan from very early on

toroddfuglesteg wrote: I had no intentions of insulting you. I apologise for any offence done. But what I should had mentioned was that the Holocaust deniers tends to go to any forums to peddle their lies. That even including a forum for breastfeeding mothers before that forum was closed down. Hence; I thought that quak-quak from the pond was a duck and ordered potatoes and onions to my Bejing Duck dinner.

presdoug wrote: I just wanted to say that it is impossible to distance Hitler in any way from the Holocaust, because in Mein Kampf, he talks of pograms against the Jews-it was part of his master plan from very early on

Please cite the exact chapter and page please. This is not true. 

CCVP wrote: In all seriousness, why are we discussing something that happened > 60 years ago if there are still people dying from hunger and from genocide today? I witness the squalor of mankind everyday on my way to school or whenever I am outside of my home and yet we are here, discussing about Hitler and his holocaust. There are more important matters to discuss now than the holocaust.

This.

Because people enjoy discussing it and the Holocaust has stronger emotional ties to some people due to family / cultural reasons than the rest of the atrocities occurring past and present.