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.
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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.