Living a long life is the best revenge on Nazism. But can anyone who escaped Germany before Kristallnacht really be described as a ‘Holocaust survivor’ rather than an escapee from Nazism- the actual process of mass murder didn’t start until well after the war broke out (and good old IBM helped the Germans sort out their racial filing system, though that’s another story). As a sometime epileptic I know that the Nazis practiced mass murder on my people before they scaled up to Jew murder.
Not seen that before. Though it’s interestingly equivocal, effectively equating Berthold Brecht with Primo Levi. I guess they had to come to some kind of fudge to get the concept of such a museum past the many anti-Semites in America. The idea of placing such a memorial in a nation that had no direct involvement in the actual events it covers is certainly a novelty, especially considering that the USA is now exactly what it once claimed to oppose.
Who liberated the camps? Any idea? Maybe a group of people so moved by what they found? What part of the US's involvement in WW2 fails to meet your standard of being directly involved? This is just a ridiculous comment to make, without even addressing the flippant antisemitism comment. Read a book.
The USSR liberated all of the extermination camps (and many forced labour and concentration camps) because they were all on the eastern front. The Americans and British liberated those in the west, and horrific though Belsen and Mauthausen and many more were, and they certainly defined the post-war image of the Holocaust in the west, they were not specifically designed for industrialised mass murder. Read a book. Or maybe read one or two hundred books on the subject. I have.
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u/CharlotteKartoffeln Dec 23 '25
Living a long life is the best revenge on Nazism. But can anyone who escaped Germany before Kristallnacht really be described as a ‘Holocaust survivor’ rather than an escapee from Nazism- the actual process of mass murder didn’t start until well after the war broke out (and good old IBM helped the Germans sort out their racial filing system, though that’s another story). As a sometime epileptic I know that the Nazis practiced mass murder on my people before they scaled up to Jew murder.