(02-11-2021, 05:05 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(02-11-2021, 08:34 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: "Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors…even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views,"

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/gi...-star-wars

There is not a damn thing false about what she said. People need to watch the four part series Einsatzgruppen (sp) on Netflix to see it for themselves. That's exactly what happened. Archival footage shows people beating the hell out of Jews in the streets and it wasn't the SS, Nazis or German Polizei. It was tough to watch.

I'm not going to dig through Gina Carano's whole Instagram, but there's nothing wrong with what is quoted here.  She's right.  We do imagine that the Holocaust was carried out entirely by fanatics, but key steps were actually carried out by ordinary Germans.
That's where I'm coming from too.
We need to be nicer to each other, because if we don't remember to respect people who disagree as humans, bad things, such as Kristalnacht, can happen.
we should also remember one of the lessons of the movie Schindler's list. Many of the ordinary Germans who helped round up the Jews to the nearest train station thought the Jews were simply being deported. This is why most of the concentration camps were beyond the pre war borders of Germany. Ordinary Germans thought of those places as future colonies of Germany, to be ruled by Germans, and subservient to Germans, but inhabited by lower races.
The idea that you can wash your hands of responsibility for what happens to a person by simply deporting them is very dangerous indeed.

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