I'm sorry about the holocaust, but enough is enough already. The guy is too old.
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I disagree OP. Even if the guy was 120 yrs old, he should be shamed for what he did.
The Holocaust was a horrible horrible event. Look up pictures and youtube videos of this terrible time and if you are truly human, you cannot help but feel terrible pain by what some people had to endure just because they were Jewish. Anne Frank would have been 84 on Wednesday had she had the opportunity and right to live. I imagine she would have been a great writer as well as a wonderful mother. |
Anonymous
Yes, the most notorious Holocaust denier is a British "history" "professor". |
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New poster here
I don't give the guy a pass for old age. If he (or anyone) was truly "just following orders" I might. The people who chose not to follow orders under that regime were amazingly brave and often paid for it through torture and death. I don't know what I would have/ could have done, in that time, under the circumstances if "following orders" meant protecting my own children. Don't know if this guy was in fact, just following orders though. |
Anonymous
He wasn't. He was giving them. |
Anonymous
Really? The biggest crime in human history?? |
Anonymous
Sweetie, I know you only made it to the 5th grade, but it's never too late to learn how to read. I wish you all the best. XOXO! |
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Which is not what pp said, OP. |
Anonymous
| This is the forum where everyone must agree: the HOLOCAUST WAS THE WORST CRIME IN HUMAN HISTORY. |
Anonymous
| please don't start a pissing contest over this... lets just not! |
Anonymous
AND THE MOON LANDING WAS ALL A HOAX! BRB GUYZ I HAVE TO HAVE MY TINFOIL HAT REFITTED |
Anonymous
Which one is it? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dinny |
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While I am fine with this man being held responsible, I do wonder about kids who were/are brought up within a family that is Nazi / Taliban. where what they have been taught from birth, what they have been told is right, what they have seen modeled, the values, beliefs, propaganda they have been told all have shaped who they are. Often a child deviating from the beliefs of their families would be seen as completely unacceptable and have major consequences. These kids weren't/aren't being taught to think for themselves, question authority, defy their parents.
And the age thing is interesting. we see post after post on here about how a 14 yr old isn't old enough to stay home alone, take public transit etc.. but we then say that 14 is old enough to defy family and cultural beliefs and strike out on his own? People on here refer to early twenties as still teens, not able to financially support themselves, brains still developing, partying to excess, risk and experimentation and making stupid decisions is all just part of being young but a guy the same age should stand against orders to join an army and make decisions based on a conscious that has not been developed to believe that what he is doing is wrong? To defy orders of his superiors would likely have meant his death. Would it have been noble for him to do so - sure. But would many of the 22 yr olds here would go against friends, family, leaders, country, and authorities for a cause they had been brought up to believe in was wrong, and die for it? It wasn't they they were raised to be free thinkers. Many believe that our soldiers going to war and killing others, including innocent families and children is wrong. Right or wrong are relative to the position you hold and how you came to hold that position. |
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17:51 you are right on point. A 14 year old AA is a man but a 14 year old Caucasian is a child.
Many do not know this, when 16 year old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped a 7 year old AA "woman" was also kidnapped. This 7 year old "woman" escaped while the whole country was crying about the poor 16 year old "baby". |
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| OP is right. I mean some Jews survived. Also a few gypsies. And homosexuals. And Europeans. I personally know of at least two Polish people who survived the holocaust. Why don't we let bygones be bygones? Nazis are people too, people! |
Anonymous
You go Takoma! Doin that math and schoolin' OP. I can't believe in 2013 somebody could even think like OP let alone admit it publicly. |