Superheroes really really really sucked at stopping Hitler
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Genocide
It's horrifying to consider how many times a country has committed genocide in modern History even outside of World War 2. Cambodia killed 3 million people, literally a THIRD of their own population. Russians have killed and starved millions of their own people. 3 million Bengali Hindus were killed by Pakistan in the '70s. 1 million people in Rwanda killed, which included 70% of the Tutsis in that country. The list goes on and on and on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll Can you believe we even have genocides occuring today in Myanmar, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, and Central African Republic? https://www.businessinsider.com/genocides-still-going-on-today-bosnia-2017-11#darfuris-in-sudan-5
Primo Levi
It's sad to think about the journey of Primo Levi. A chemist who was taken to Auschwitz, he survives the experience and writes a harrowing and gripping account of the experience. I saw a video where he revisited Auschwitz nearly 40 years later. He committed suicide shortly after that. How much of a burden did these experiences weigh on Levi for his life? The mantle of being a survivor and to have to speak to what happened for the rest of your life must be heavy indeed.
Henry Ford's role in US Anti-Semitism and The Holocaust Itself
People think of Henry Ford as one of the great Americans, but few are aware of the fact that he was instrumental in promoting Anti-Semitism in the USA. So vocal and powerful were his efforts that they influenced Hitler himself. Through a company produced newspaper called The Dearborn Independent, Ford promoted and reprinted writings from a work from 1903 called The Protocols of the Elders of Zio n. This work was a hoax that showed how Jews controlled the world's gold supply, and even contained far-fetched claims that Jewish leaders met with The Devil himself in a Prague cemetery to discuss their plains for world domination. Though the work was easily condemned as fradulent, it was shared with many throughout the world. Henry Ford began publishing a series of articles titled "The International Jew." Though he was legally forced to admit they were false 7 years after he began publishing them, his influence and reach already caused enough damage. Hitler was an avid fan of ...
Complicit
It's sad to think how many "non-Nazis" were complicit in the horrors of The Holocaust. How much did America know about this before we got involved? How much did the average German know and just didn't care? Was the promise of improved economy and better standing enough to look the other way for most people? How strong or effective was the resistance? How did we let this happen?