Monday, March 4, 2013

A map of evil

"[R]esearchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945."

When men turn truly evil, they sink, not to the level of animals, but to the level of demons.

(H/T: Jill J)

6 comments:

rinardman said...

When men turn truly evil, they sink, not to the level of animals, but to the level of demons.

I've had a sinking feeling for several years now. Not sure why.

DavefromTacoma said...

And when they sink to the level of demons pray to God they also don't also have their claws on the levers of state. Only a government can commit wholesale, industrial level evil. Yet, our brothers and sisters on the left go to bed each night telling themselves corporations = evil.

RebeccaH said...

What is even more horrifying is that slave-labor camps and death camps were so numerous, there's no way the local populations didn't know about them. So, in a way, it's the good people who allowed such evil to exist.

bruce said...

Yes RebeccaH. And I am surprised (perhaps not) to see the camps are mostly in Germany. I always wanted to believe what they said, 'That was all far away, we did not know'.

After reading 'The Heidelberg Myth' and other books, I began to doubt the excuses. Even the WWI payments were preceded by bullying demands by the Germans for billions from the French after the Franco-Prussian War.

And I like Germans. But they imagine leftism absolves them of all this - ultimately, it does not!

Col. Milquetoast said...

In the US, ghetto is usually used to refer to a bad neighborhood but in Germany in the 1700s and into the 1800s (I'm not sure when they started) a ghetto had walls around it and a gate or 2 that could be closed and locked shut. For the privilege of being forced to live in a cage they had to pay a special tax and jews were banned from certain occupations. In order to leave you had to pay a tax. In order to move somewhere else you had to pay an exit tax.

There is something to be said in favor of limited government.

Col. Milquetoast said...

‪DavefromTacoma, ‬
Yet, our brothers and sisters on the left go to bed each night telling themselves corporations = evil.

‪But how many millions died in the Cola Wars of the 1980s between Coke and Pepsi? (And don't forget the violent rampages of that renegade Generalissimo Dr. Pepper.‬)

I have a distant cousin who lived in Nazi Germany (her family moved to the US in the late 1920s, then moved back to the Germany in the late 1930s to help take care of her ailing grandmother and she & her mother were stuck there until about 1950). As a kid I asked her why they didn't do something about Hitler and the Nazis and her response was that people have their own lives to live and, in a place where dissent could be dangerous, what could she have done? If she had done something then what could one single person accomplish of any significance?

I wouldn't underestimate the often true stereotype of Germans being driven to follow the rules simply because there are rules.

The Nazi ghettos were also cut off from the rest of the community. "I didn't know" has some plausibility and considering euro anti-semitism it sounds better than "I didn't care."