Posted on Jan 28, 2023
Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance - and lessons we have yet to learn
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The German ocean liner St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg in 1939. The 937 passengers onboard were trying to escape genocide.
The Nuremberg Laws of Hitler's Germany had classified Jews an inferior race. Jewish children had been expelled from schools. Concentration camps had been opened. Jewish-owned businesses destroyed.
Adolf Hitler told his Reichstag, "If war erupts, it will mean the extermination of European Jews."
Soon, he would start that war.
But the US government had strict limits on immigration, even for people in flight for their lives. Isolationism and anti-Semitism were widespread. The revered American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, would warn a rally in 1941 about Jews, saying, "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government."
The German ocean liner St. Louis sailed out of Hamburg in 1939. The 937 passengers onboard were trying to escape genocide.
The Nuremberg Laws of Hitler's Germany had classified Jews an inferior race. Jewish children had been expelled from schools. Concentration camps had been opened. Jewish-owned businesses destroyed.
Adolf Hitler told his Reichstag, "If war erupts, it will mean the extermination of European Jews."
Soon, he would start that war.
But the US government had strict limits on immigration, even for people in flight for their lives. Isolationism and anti-Semitism were widespread. The revered American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, would warn a rally in 1941 about Jews, saying, "Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government."
Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance - and lessons we have yet to learn
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CHRISTY MOORE YELLOW TRIANGLE 1996 (Graffiti Tongue album)
During World War 2 concentration camp prisoners had to wear coloured triangles on their clothes thus political prisoners wore red,Jews wore yellow,homosexual...
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I cannot comprehend such utter regard for human life. It continues to break my soul.
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