Today marks the 70th anniversary of this infamous night in history, over 25,000 Jewish men were removed from their homes in Germany and sent to concentration camps. Mobs attacked Jewish owned businesses and synagogues – destroying many of them, 91 people died while the police watched and did nothing.
The violence was organised by the Nazi government which had been looking for an excuse to unleash this terror against the Jewish community, that had come from Paris where the son of a Polish Jew who had been deported to Poland (along with 15,000 others) the previous month shot an official at the German embassy.
This night marked the start of the Holocaust and millions died and suffered as the results of events set in motion on this day but planned well in advance.
Nothing on that scale has been seen since then but even in the last 20 years similar events have taken place in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur in Sudan.
On this day of remembrance we should all pause and reflect that in some places the same old shit that was being carried out 70 years ago is still happening to people. It would be good to believe that one day it will stop occurring but I do not think that it will be in my lifetime.
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5 comments:
Genau.
Noddy, Cheers loon - had to look it up to get the meaning, but then I am not a talented multi linguist like yourself.
Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.
Frankenstein...as said by Frankenstein's monster...
People always seem to desire humanity and profess it; however, there are people who are cruel for cruelty sake. I don't think we'll ever have the answers, but power is a potent drug and many are addicted to it. Sadly.
rt, Good quote.
I suspect that you are right, and power corrupts far too many when they acquire it.
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