Discover the testimony of 19-year-old Ustaša, Joso Orešković, detailing his participation in the events at the Slana camp on Pag Island, #Croatia during World War II.
Nachdem ich das Kapitel über den Holocaust im DDR-Lehrbuch Geschichte Klasse 9 durchgearbeitet habe, was ich extra dafür gekauft habe, weil ich inzwischen selber wissen wollte, ob ich mir meine Vergangenheit zusammen halluziniere, fühle ich mich, als würde hier eine epische #Gaslighting-Story laufen.
Ich habe wirklich angefangen, an mir selber zu zweifeln, dabei ist die Sachlage überwältigend.
Prominente Menschen behaupten das, wie diese Aussage von Ines Geipel zeigt, zitiert in obigem Blog:
"Mit dieser instrumentellen Vergessenspolitik wurde im selben Atemzug der Holocaust für 40 Jahre in den Ost-Eisschrank geschoben. Er kam öffentlich nicht vor."
Das kommt so oft und von verschiedenen Seiten, dass ich mir ein altes Geschichtslehrbuch kaufen musste, weil ich anfing, mir selbst nicht mehr zu glauben.
@bookstodon It's Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. which is a great time to do some meaningful reflection. To that end, I picked up HEAVYWEIGHT, by Solomon J. Brager. The title is aptly chosen, in so many ways.
It's a graphic memoir about family, identity (including trans/nonbinary), intergenerational trauma, greed, war, bigotry, eugenics, class inequality, privilege, colonial genocide, the plight of political and religious refugees, and the process of confronting personal ghosts. It involved a massive research undertaking that formed the basis of the author's dissertation. I learned so much, even though I thought I knew a lot about the historical time period. Def recommend. #books#bookstodon#holocaust
Well, this turned out to be one of the most devastating books I’ve ever read. ‘Song of Stars’ by Guus Luijters, trans. Marian de Vooght, is a beautifully written attempt to recuperate the memory of a Jewish girl from the Netherlands, murdered by the Nazis.
"Security concerns relating to the situation in the Middle East have forced Kraków’s annual #Jewish festival, which is one of the largest in #Europe, to cancel the public concert that is normally the centrepiece of the event. The decision was made after consultation with the police.
The Jewish Culture Festival has been taking place since 1988 and is seen as an emblem of the revival of Jewish life and culture in a country where Jews once made up 10% of the population but were almost completely wiped out in the #Holocaust."
"Nakba and Shoah, the Hebrew word for Holocaust, mean the same thing: catastrophe. I reject the premise that one people’s salvation must come at another’s destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen — and this cannot be done from within the Biden administration.”
#MackenzieKing’s “cheerleading” for #Hitler’s regime got a tremendous boost during his tour of landmarks of the #Nazi “miracle,” as Teigrob recounts in riveting detail. The photographs tell a very chilling story as well, especially one that shows King sitting proudly in Hitler’s seat at the All-German Sports Competitions while surrounded by Nazi bigwigs in full swastika-studded regalia.
And yes, both authors conclude that King was a bona fide #AntiSemite, neither of them granting a man of his education and experience a pass for being a product of his #xenophobic, intolerant times. Certainly the most infuriating and tragic aspect of King’s wilful denial of well-documented #Nazi evil is his attitude towards #Jews, which led to #Canada’s refusal to accept significant numbers of refugees from the mounting #Holocaust hell.
One of the central horrors of the Holocaust, much commented-on over the years, notably by Hannah Arendt: How "ordinary" people were willing to commit murder with seeming casualness, while going about their ordinary lives, playing music, going to church, picknicking in forests and meadows, laughing and eating blueberries.
On this point, Anderson Cooper interviews playwrignt Moises Kaufman re: his new play "Here There Are Blueberries."
Oh my dear @h4890
how did you achieve this level of indoctrination and ignorance? To support #genocide today isn't much different than to support #holocaust back in 1938. Are your parents proud that you became a #ZioNazi?
Since it wasn't me who financed #Hamas, but the #apartheid#regime of @israel (that you support) ... you might guess who does the dirty work as useful idiot.
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While I'm prepared with historical facts for an intellectual duell with #genocideDenier's, it's you who is unarmed, obviously.
I followed @auschwitzmuseum even before I switched to the #Fediverse It posts pictures of people (a lot of which children) that where murdered in concentration camps every day, to let us not forget.
I have need of a #Aleppomuseum and #Gazamuseum and #Ukrainamuseum account that posts daily pictures of people (a lot of which children) that where killed in the last few days.
In regard to the #IsraelHamasWar you are engaging in #HolocaustInversion. Because unlike the #Holocaust, there is not now, nor has there been, a significant Israeli ideology, movement, policy or plan to exterminate the Palestinian population. It is in fact a defensive war in response to a genocidal terrorists attack. Whether intentionally or not, your comparison to Gaza is inherently antisemitic.
Reagan was livid. He was shown pictures of dead children including a small baby with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get Israel on the phone and then dressed Israeli PM Begin down sharply, 'It is a holocaust‘.
One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
...however, this does not discredit all of his arguments.
The #Palestinians or their forbears did not commit the #Holocaust atrocities. This was done by the #fascist and communist regimes of Europe. They should have equal right like the Jews.
As long as this great injustice has not been remedied, war-mongers like the #Mullah Regime and the #Netanyahu Regime will always have ample possibilities to rekindle the embers. Al of...
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
The #US is by far the largest arms supplier to its closest #MiddleEast ally, followed by #Germany – whose strong support for #Israel reflects in part atonement for the Nazi #Holocaust – and #Italy.