Holocaust Remembrance Day

2020.01.28, by Bedivere and Nova
Filed under Journal, History, Vietnam War, World War II

[Bedi] Blast Ant was contemplating the Holocaust yesterday. About how to explain it to the children. “The children have to know this is preventable. It still is preventable,” she said. … …So, she and Ansel decided to spare them the details of the brutality, and focused on the industrial slave labour aspect of the concentration camps. Wanted them to make the connection to the Spanish mission system and slavery in the Americas. It’s a major aspect of the Holocaust but is rarely covered in American schools. “So is the postwar continuity of the NSDAP membership,” Didi added. The kids were upset that IG Farben built and ran its own concentration camps, but all the bosses were granted early release and directorships in postwar companies.

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