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Originally Posted by Carotio
Last year, I have met a Romanian guy, whom I actually liked untill a while ago, when we by chance started to talk history and then it turns out he doesn't believe in holocaust having taken place in that big scale as it did. And he is a university student for Christ sake and should know better.
EDIT: the image from Kylania up there seems like a much better image.
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I wonder what his reaction would be like if he learned about OUR (I mean, the Romanian) involvement in the Holocaust. Can anyone here spell D-E-N-I-A-L?
Well, I'll reserve my current rant to your old friend.
The current problem with the Holocaust is that it takes a good BBC made movie about it to remind us that the piles of bodies were actually bodies of people. It's too "clean" in a messy way. It's too far back. They didn't have Internet or IPods back then so we've lost touch with them. Why should anyone care if it was 10 mil, 6 or even 1 million? How could anyone care about the extent of it all during all that maddness? It's like watching the news for an updated body-count on the latest earthquake. 2000 only? Bleah... I expected more from a 7.2...
The Nazis and the Holocaust have been lifted on such high ground after the war that all sense of reality about it has been lost. It's like the perfect crime story, a story to scare children at night. It's sort'of like Jesus (in the opposite way, of course), too inhuman, too high to be touched or repeated. So we feel safe from it... How many other Holocausts have we seen since then? Cambodgia was in my book a much more "messy" affair. What about Zair and Somalia? Heck, I'd take my chances with an SS officer instead of a Khmere Rouge any day...
There's no war, I repeat that, NO war without people suffering and having their lives destroyed. If it's a gas chamber or a bullet in the head, it's the same deal. You loose your home, your family, your friends, your life. Even if you do survive, you still loose everything you regarded as "your life" and "yourself".
Holocausts have happened since 45, and will continue to do so, in times of war AND peace. We still don't care **** about things that happen to others. But hey.. we shed a fake tear about the poor jews that died in the bad old Holocaust.
Well, here's one for you: she survived but her parents didn't. She was 6 at that time (1942).
So let's imagine that she hadn't survived. What would've been the total then? 1,000,001? or 6,000,001? Or maybe even 6,000,002... She might've looked pretty small in this picture, you probably wouldn't even notice her:
The point is, we're ready to do it all over again. We've been doing it since then anyway. A lesson lost in the heat of the Cold War.
PS: sorry for the rant, and btw, how did we get from the SH5 ending pics to this? Damn Holocaust, ruins all the fun in a game.