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Journal Tells Of Young Jewish Woman’s Life In Occupied Paris

walt1944, you and some of the media have taken Bush''s words out of context -- what he said was that the Allies should have bombed the railroad tracks leading up to the camps as well as some of the installations that support them.

[cfin5]

As a young man I was fortunate to be able to visit Anne Franks house and Corrie ten Booms family clock shop in Holland. I will never forget it,.....ever. Neither will I forget the pictures that my uncle took of some of the concentration camps that he helped liberate. It happened all right. The most vicious animal in the world walks on two legs, but their hearts are indeed on four.

[timniles98]

We all have so much to learn. Once I thought I knew quite a lot about WWII.

I''ve read The Rise and Fall pf the Third Reich twice, once in 1968 and then again in the late 70s, but I didn''t really understand the scope of WWII until I watched and read Winds of War and the sequel, War and Remembrance. Like all works of fiction these two works used drama and characters simplified to sustain the attention of readers. but were filled with the reality of that period.

Of course, many documentaries and much historical fiction has been done on WWII, Walter Cronkite did an excellent video program on WWII in the 60s and Ken Burns did his amazing "The War" (released a few months ago on PBS.)

Because a portion of my childhood was spent in Los Alamos, NM, where the atomic bomb was developed - I was living within a few hundred yards from where scientists had created their own history - I have read more widely about that development (also, as an engineer, it holds technical power for me) and again, thought I knew quite a lot. But in the end, I had not known about the Allied firebombings of almost all major Japanese cities, reducing them to rubble and killing high percentages of civilians... what amazes me given that knowledge, is that the atomic bomb did stop the war. Why should the maniacs running Japan have bothered to notice that if they couldn''t see the other?

We have a lot to learn and remember.

[excoachken]

to gunhuggerdan: The Nuremberg Laws of September 15, 1935 took away many human rights from Jews in Germany, including citizenship, civil service jobs, the right to fly a German flag, and even forbade them from having *** with non Jews, but it did not say anything about gun ownership. this is what started the concentration camp concept, accelerated by the Einstatzgruppen concept of putting them in the same locale (Warsaw Ghetto of September 1939)which is when weapons were confiscated, because of the potential for revolt. But, 3/4 of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews had already been sent to Concentration Camps (mostly Treblinka)by Himmler, before the April 19, 1943 uprising. Once again, the N.R.A. has tried to confuse the facts to fit their sick agenda for profit!

[truthheals]

azm - you want tragedy?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/925695.html
Dying of occupation - a case of cancer and the Israeli right

a Gaza cancer patient named Nail al-Kurdi, 20, waiting since July for permission to cross into Israel for treatment, died of his illness. For five months, officials of the Shin Bet security service received request from Physicians for Human Rights, asking that they grant al-Kurdi a permit to be treated in Israel.

Request after request was denied. As the refusals mounted, his cancer spread. the physicians group appealed the Shin Bet refusals to the High Court. The court allowed prosecutors an extension Al-Kurdi did not survive the extension.

There is no evil quite like the evil of denying crucial medical treatment. Except one, perhaps.

Y.H., a 37-year-old Gazan in need of open-heart surgery. By contrast to al-Kurdi, the Shin Bet granted Y.H. an exit permit, so that he could travel to the West Bank for the operation. when he came to Erez Crossing to leave Gaza, Shin Bet agents called him aside for interrogation.

"If you help us we will help you," Y.H. quoted the agent as telling him, adding that the Shin Bet man asked him to provide information about his acquaintances.

when Y.H. replied that he had no such information, "the interrogator said ''If you don''t help up we won''t help you. Go and die in Gaza.'' He sent him back home, promising that he would never leave Gaza."

[excoachken]

1/3 of all planes used to bomb Germany were destroyed and the men perished. I realize that the Cowardly Cowboy considers himself a "wartime survivor" because of all the Officer''s Clubs that he got drunk in during Vietnam, but his hindsight is myopic, since all bombing raids were carefully thought out as to the total impact they would have against the Nazi''s, therefore they freed the captives of Concentration camps as early as they could be freed. The brave leaders and heroes who flew these raids do not deserve W''s quack Monday morning quarterbacking. to those who had to hear his bs, it is simple chutzpah without a drop of courage!

[truthheals]

i cant wait for the Palestinian version

also ''Mohammeds List'' (to force-fed to every student in US)

[mudrose-2009]

If this story is true about what the Great Emperor said, this is an amazing piece of news. My father flew in a B-24 in Europe during WW II dropping bombs on the Reich and he never once mentioned that the Allies has "super-smart" bombs that, when dropped could tell Jew from Nazi!!!! This must have been a big secret like the Norden bomb sight and the Enigma machine!!!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!!
Posted by walt1944

You should be able to relate to Bush dumbo. Like you who apply contemporary concepts to past situations, Bush did likewise. But I could forgive him. He was swept by the anguish the moment caused. You on the otherhand, haven''t a clue what your father experienced or what this beautiful young girl went through.

How she caught the irony of the moment in a young soldiers display of manners to what may have been his attraction and the incongruity and stench of that yellow star.

[gunownerdan]

cneron,
Please stop spreading misinformation.
Hitler did ban all weapons for Jews at the beginning of the Holocaust, I even posted the law from November 11, 1938. The Weimar Republic in 1928 passed gun registration, not a gun ban.

[carterarce]

"A tragic loss of life for a sick and sadistic ideology - may her story be read again and again....may we never forget history - or we will repeat it again."

Uh, it''s being repeated right now. Just not to white people.