Monday, June 06, 2011
Remembering...
""This is D-day", came the announcement over the British radio. The invasion has begun! According to the German news, British parachute troops have landed on the French coast. British landing craft are in battle with the German Navy, says the BBC.
Great commotion in the 'Secret Annexe'! Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much but which still seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy-tale, ever come true? Could we be granted victory this year, 1944? We don't know yet, but hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again."
Anne Frank, diary entry, June 6, 1944.
Great commotion in the 'Secret Annexe'! Would the long-awaited liberation that has been talked of so much but which still seems too wonderful, too much like a fairy-tale, ever come true? Could we be granted victory this year, 1944? We don't know yet, but hope is revived within us; it gives us fresh courage, and makes us strong again."
Anne Frank, diary entry, June 6, 1944.
Labels: Anne Frank, D-Day, history, Holocaust, Judaism, WWII
Thursday, June 11, 2009
I'll Shoah YOU the life of the mind!!!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A Bold-Faced Lie from Obama
Obama claimed his uncle was with the American brigade that liberated Auschwitz.
Lie.
Auschwitz was in Poland. It was liberated by Russian troops, not by Americans.
Splash, out
Jason
UPDATE: Obama's campaign is now saying it wasn't his uncle, but his great uncle. And it wasn't Auschwitz, but Buchenwald.
Buchenwald was a Hell on earth. But how ill-informed do you have to be to confuse Buchenwald with the Big A?
Apparently this seminal event in Obama's family history was just never interesting enough to Obama to learn about in any detail.
Lie.
Auschwitz was in Poland. It was liberated by Russian troops, not by Americans.
Splash, out
Jason
UPDATE: Obama's campaign is now saying it wasn't his uncle, but his great uncle. And it wasn't Auschwitz, but Buchenwald.
Buchenwald was a Hell on earth. But how ill-informed do you have to be to confuse Buchenwald with the Big A?
Apparently this seminal event in Obama's family history was just never interesting enough to Obama to learn about in any detail.
Labels: Democrats, Holocaust, The Left
Saturday, February 16, 2008
France and the Holocaust
The well-meaning frogtards are all up in arms again, this time over a proposal to have every French child "adopt" a child victim of the Holocaust.
Pardon me for mentioning this, but the time for worrying about the national guilt over such matters would have been before the French collaborated with the Nazis, Marshall Petain signed a document declaring that Jews were "enemies of the state," and turned over more than 70,000 people to their fate in the Nazi death camps.
I would further suggest that now that a sizeable minority of French residents are even now rabidly and even murderously antisemitic, that a little bit of circumspection might be a good thing for the children of France.
They don't want to confront their guilt? All the more reason to rub their filthy gallic noses in it.
Splash, out,
Jason
In a speech praising faith that also drew fire from secularists, Sarkozy told France's Jewish community on Wednesday that every 10-year-old schoolchild should be "entrusted with the memory of a French child victim of the Holocaust".
The proposal unleashed a storm of protest from teachers, psychologists and his political foes who said it would unfairly burden children with the guilt of previous generations and some could be traumatized by identifying with a Holocaust victim.
Pardon me for mentioning this, but the time for worrying about the national guilt over such matters would have been before the French collaborated with the Nazis, Marshall Petain signed a document declaring that Jews were "enemies of the state," and turned over more than 70,000 people to their fate in the Nazi death camps.
I would further suggest that now that a sizeable minority of French residents are even now rabidly and even murderously antisemitic, that a little bit of circumspection might be a good thing for the children of France.
They don't want to confront their guilt? All the more reason to rub their filthy gallic noses in it.
Splash, out,
Jason
Labels: France, Holocaust, Judaism, The Left
