Auschwitz Volunteer by Witold Pilecki. Im 150pages into it and have had to put it down several times. The story of ....guards having detainees buried headfirst and betting on how long till the legs stopped moving or random days ..names being called out and you were executed...trying to survive on no food and trying to stay awake for days on end so as to keep the lice off. Juxtaposed against getting a temp gig improvising a remodel of a SS officers house so that it would be done for Mrs SS officer's arrival. In the town...kids were playing laughing...babies born etc but two miles up the road kids were executed while clinging in fright to their helpless parents.

This use of "Nazi" ..."Hitler" ..."concentration camps" has to stop. People that throw these out recklessly are dam fools. There was a depravity in Nazi Germany that is so far removed from present life.

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Posted by CGSC Lobotomy

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Posted on 6/19/19 at 3:14 pm to Vestigial Morgan

You know it was bad when the depiction in "Wolfenstein" was maybe not much of an exaggeration of them...

It is humbling to realize that, had the Nazis won World War II, I would have never been born (my mother was born in 1946 to a Jewish couple).

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Posted by Mr. Misanthrope

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Posted on 6/19/19 at 5:51 pm to Vestigial Morgan

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There was a depravity in Nazi Germany that is so far removed from present life.

There certainly was and I'm not getting the down votes you received.

That depravity may not be so far removed as you think. Humanity and civilization sometimes seem like pretty thin veneer covering what horrors may lay just below the surface.

When all life isn't precious and protected, no life is truly safe.

When peace and civility are viewed and enjoyed as simple calculations of economic well being, pursuit of physical pleasure and material objects, and freedom has devolved into licentiousness without personal responsibility or consequences, should those externals be shattered and removed, lawless anarchy or tyrannical authoritarianism often rise to power, both equally cruel and soulless.

The election of President Trump has slowed the pace of our country's slide into a socialist tyranny but make no mistake, the Barbarians are not just at the gates but in the wire.

I'm a tad gloomy today. And apparently brooding.

Poor Mrs. M. She puts up with a lot. Knee injections have not yet taken full effect and that is some of the pain talking. Down vote away. Time to bathe four dogs and drink some single malt.