How Germany remembers the Holocaust

My best friend's Mother was from Germany, and during the war, she went to the GI's for scraps of food and old cigarettes (for her father, she would re-roll the old tobacco). Her father was against the NAZI regime, and his punishment was to delouse the dead people prior to their cremation. I could not sleep for days after she told me what she went through as a child because of that fanatical monster!!

PO2 Robert M. I hear you I'm glad I was not there. When I was in Stuttgart there was an old guy who worked at the O Club he had a string of numbers on his arm.

I had occasion to chat with the daughter of a member of !y uncle:s WW2 Army unit, the 3118th Signal Svc Battalion/Grp, her Dad might well have known my uncle, not were there for the German surrender, after it happened, her Dad was apparently spoken with by Gen. Bradley, who'd said to him, "Well, it:s finally over"... I just figured you all might find that an interesting anecdote...her Dad had a ticker tape of the surrender announcement she gave her nephew, who'd gone USAF...I'd chatted with her as my uncle had helped send the Telex of the surrender, and also swiped a copy, my cousins still have it in a safe deposit box....

You would think that by 1960 they would have put something up in their honor.

LTC (Join to see) - I think we've wandered off the tracks here. This discussion began with a link to a discussion of How Germany Remembers the Holocaust. You added a reference to Eisenhower's role in helping defend against historical revisionists who might deny the Holocaust to lay the ground for reviving persecution of the Jews. Again, valid and apropos to the original discussion. Beyond that point, we jumped the tracks and began discussing Americans who want to revive those practices and I followed. Inasmuch as this is a valid and important discussion, I fear that it becomes lost to the other members of this thread who may not follow our reasoning. I would gladly follow if you begin a new discussion of this point.

CPT Jack Durish yes, Jack, we'll try to get it back to what just happened in Germany. It's strange that it took them so many decades to come out with this Memorial to the Fallen Jews of Germany. Do you think it was because too many Nazis were still alive? If so, this seems very ironic that now that you have the third REICH veterans passing away as fast as hours are from the Second World War that now you have a new generation of those who grew up after the reunification who are now being racist and Nazi even in the German Armed Forces. I know that Germany has been a solid supporter of Israel. As a historian, what do you think was going on behind the scenes of the unified Germany to take so long to get this Memorial put in place? Also, I went off the tracks because of how many Holocaust deniers we have in the world today. I just wanted to remind those bastards how messed up they are in the event that they happen to read this blog.

CPT Jack Durish Jack, this is very interesting! I like the picture of you with your animals. I will have to look at your other stories later.

CPT Jack Durish sorry, I know you did not kick Julius Caesar off the weapons qualification range for a safety violation. I should have rephrased it and said that your father may have known about this.