He Who Forgets History…

Posted by Larry Miller on February 14, 2012 under Why | 2 Comments to Read

A young man from Palm Beach, Florida shows there is hope for today’s youth. He studied his Jewish heritage, traveled to the concentration camps of Poland and was determined to do his part to be sure the tragedy of Nazi Germany is not forgotten. While recognizing the huge numbers who died in the holocaust, Michael Marcus puts a personal face on what happened to six million individuals who were born into families, with mothers and fathers who loved them, and raised them the best they could… then were brutally tortured and killed.

In the early and middle thirties, storm clouds of prejudice on the German horizon along with an increasingly powerful and dictatorial government. The German people were a cultured people. They had art, music and advanced education. They were civilized. They had a leader who proclaimed a distorted sense of history and destiny… yet his eloquent tongue gradually led them down the path of destruction.

Few, if any, of the murdered Jews thought such a horror would come to their land. They believed the German passion for logic and precision would right the course. They thought the (pre-war) Christian society would continue to provide a society where Christians and Jews would continue live in productive harmony.

Many think our government is looking out for us. Many think the constitution and courts will protect us and keep us free. Despite the recent attacks on Christian values, many see little cause for alarm. I suggest you watch the video and consider that the complacent Jews were wrong. What about the complacent Christians?

Tags: constitution, history, individual

Stefan Komar said,

As the son of a member of the Polish underground whose unit “Zoska” was acknowledged
by Yad Vashem for saving 350 Jews during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising I would like to point
out that calling any German concentration camp in German occupied Poland “POLISH”, or referring to a German concentration camp in occupied Poland as “in Poland”, “of Poland,” or “Poland’s,” is insensitive to the families of the millions of ethnic Poles who were killed, forced into slave labor, tortured, maimed, terrorized and starved during the brutal and inhuman occupation of Poland by Germany in the name of “Deuthschland, Deutschland Uber Alles” and “Lebensraum” for Germans. It is insensitive to a nation that rejected repeated overtures by Hitler to join the German Nazis in an alliance against the Soviets and did much to defy German Nazism, at extreme cost, from the beginning of WW II until the end. The camps were “German” and they were in German occupied Poland. Please change the text and please stop revising history through imprecise wording.
Please note the following points on the proper reference to the GERMAN camps:
1. There IS an extremely SIGNIFICANT, albeit subtle, difference between “in Poland” or “of Poland” and “in German occupied Poland”. “Poland” refers to territory in which Poles are in charge, while “German occupied Poland” refers to territory in which Germans are in charge through the use of force. Being that other European nations voluntarily allied themselves with Nazi Germany while Poland did not ally itself with Germany, this is an important
distinction.
1a. MUSEUMS/MEMORIALS OF some of the GERMAN concentration camps may be in PRESENT
day Poland, but these actual German concentration CAMPS were in German occupied Poland.
2. There is a difference between “German Nazi” and “Polish”.
2a. The camps were German Nazi, not Polish. These are not interchangeable words.
3. ALSO, the phrase
“Nazi camp in Poland” is as bad (because it is imprecise, misleading and therefore insensitive)
as “Polish Nazi camp” (which is outright false, and thereby misleading and insensitive) !
4. THEREFORE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ABOVE, PROPER TERMINOLOGY WOULD BE
ONE OF:
- Museum/Memorial of the GERMAN camp in PRESENT DAY Poland
- Museum/Memorial of the GERMAN NAZI camp in PRESENT DAY Poland
- GERMAN camp in occupied Poland
- GERMAN Nazi camp in occupied Poland
- GERMAN camp in Nazi occupied Poland
- Nazi camp in GERMAN occupied Poland
or the admittedly awkward
- GERMAN Nazi camp in German occupied Poland (which has been, non the less, used regularly with no
problems, being the most accurate and precise phrase from all the above).

WORDS MEAN SOMETHING! You should know this …..

Thank You
Stefan Komar
PS
Please visit the Kosciuszko Foundation website to see a petition on this specific subject. Please note the names of Polish and Jewish scholars, holocaust victims, dignitaries, celebrities and resistance fighters who signed
on to this petition.
http://www.thekf.org:80/events/news/petition/
Larry Miller said,

I thought about how to respond to the obvious passion of Mr Komar. I’m not sure who, with any understanding of history would believe the Poles would build such camps that are synonimus with Nazi brutality. The Polish people were the victims, not the perpetrators.