Holiday 19 Ratings

[davideduardo]

It's been my understanding that these days, the term Nazi is used to describe just about any hate group, whether they have anything in common with the "originals" in Germany or not, as long as they are a hate group targeting a certain type of people. I didn't understand what was offending about the comment that got AQH banned, but I do understand enough about what happened between the wars in Germany to see some similarities between what happened then and what is happening today. While I'm not quite sure I understand completely what lead to the rise of Trump, I understand the basics of what happened in Germany after the war. All the blame was placed on them, which hurt the economy there more than anywhere else, and the people bought what Hitler was selling as a way to fix things.

The phrase, which I hesitate and even fear to quote, was on the signage over nearly all the Nazi concentration camps. Of course, "concentration camp" was really a euphemism for "death camps".

For anyone who was involved in WW II or who had friends or relatives who were involved or put to death in the period where the Nazis were in control of Germany and the conquered nations, that phrase represents the most pure evil.

In the last century, such evil was only equaled by the Khmer Rouge which killed about a quarter of the population of the nation it lead for just half a decade. In the case of Cambodia, they essentially killed the business, professional and legal class, eliminating also small business people, teachers who were not Socialist / Communist in their attitudes and opposition in general.

Comparing the Nazis or the Khmer Rouge with today's bi-partisan political antagonism in the US is disrespectful to the millions who died under the totalitarian regimes that systematically assassinated whole segments of the population.

There is absolutely no comparison between an outspoken politician in today's US and the National Socialists in Germany or the Socialists in Cambodia in the last century. It's really disingenuous to even try to compare them.

 

[bobdavcav]

That makes sense. I don't think I could even imagine what someone who went through one of those camps and survived actually experienced. I've read Night, and I'm not sure that even scratched the surface of what really happened.

 

[davideduardo]

That makes sense. I don't think I could even imagine what someone who went through one of those camps and survived actually experienced. I've read Night, and I'm not sure that even scratched the surface of what really happened.

While this is in Spanish, it is fairly easy to follow:

https://www.davidgleason.com/IngAlHorvath.htm

Al Horvath was a very successful engineer in Czechoslovakia, fleeing his homeland when the Germans invaded. He worked with France against the German National Socialists until France was invaded, taking exile in Ecuador. He was the only member of his family to survive WW II.

Horvath built my first radio stations, and helped me learn the basics to maintain them. He was amazingly supportive of me... unusual, since I was an 18-year-old foreigner... and I found him to be a wonderful support and encouragement for my first radio station.

He did not talk much about the War, because he lost so many people. He talked about radio, about building new transmitters. He helped me build the first directional system in Ecuador so that I could use 660 AM in the two major cities, one with 10 kw non-directional in Guayaquil and the other with 5 kw directional up and down the Andean zone.

I am posting this because here we have a true radio story that is interwoven with the National Socialists (Nazis) and their systematic elimination of many peoples they did not like including Jews, the Gypsies, homosexuals and non-white races.