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Originally Posted by tabs
I told this story before. Way back in the day I went to a Showcase mfg on Los Angeles st in LA to get a case to display certain items. The little old Jewish guy there started talking to me about machine guns that he owned, and that he had bought them in NV. Knowing the stiff penalties for owning a MG in CA I started to think why is this guy telling me all of this? then I saw the tattoo on his arm..he had been in a German Concentration camp during the war. Simply he didn't forget and was not going to go quietly if that sort of thing should ever start to happen to him again...there is a reason why the Israelis say "NEVER AGAIN."
The best deterrent is that the utter horror of what the Germans/ NAZI's did never be forgotten. The most civilized Germans, the land of Beethoven, Goeth, Nizeshce, and Bach descended into the abyss and committed the abomination of murder on an industrialized scale. The Germans still live in shame over it, for their armed forces have not deployed outside of German territory since, except for a force to Afghanistan in a NON combat role.
It is an affront to the Jewish peoples the world over, let alone the rest of humanity that the memory of those years be either denied or put aside as mere political or religious ranting. If you can forget about it as being unimportant, then it can and will happen again.
I am sorry but humanity demands that I take an ethical and moral stance on this issue.
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I agree with Tabs 100%! Back in the day, General Eisenhower insisted that the photographers take lots of pictures because he knew that there would come a day when the whole Jewish genocide during WWII would be denied. When I was a young teenager, I met a woman and her husband that had both been in concentration camps. They both had the tattoos on their arms but would not talk about their experience too much. Can't blame them for that! When an ambulance would go up a nearby street to the local hospital, the siren sound was much like that used by the Nazis. They would both turn pale and get nervous! And, this was 20 years after the war was over! Never again!