Somewhere, deep inside Dante's Seventh Circle, Hitler and Eichmann and the gang are laughing: "Finally, a solution."
From the New York Post, December 18:
A majority of young Americans said they believe Israel should “be ended and given to Hamas,” according to a shocking poll.
The survey, conducted THIS WEEK by Harvard-Harris polling, found 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 said they believed the long-term answer to the Israel-Palestinian conflict was for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.”
Only 32% said they believed in a two-state solution, and just 17% said other Arab states should be asked to absorb Palestinian populations.
The figure was in stark contrast to other age groups, which all dramatically preferred a two-state solution. Just 4% of Americans 65 and over said they felt Israel should be ended....
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Also at The Economist, December 7: "One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth"
In 1945 Eichmann said:
"I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction"
Though at his trial he said he was talking about "enemies of the Reich," rather than Jews specifically.
Also:
"Regret is something for little children."
—During cross-examination at his trial, session 96, July 13, 1961
Which brings us to a June 2020 post:
That's childish, with its selfishness and uncaring impulsivity, not childlike with its connotations of wonder and exploration."To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
There is some comedy value in beginning this post with a quote from a guy no one reads anymore on the virtues of having an historical grounding but I promise that is the last bit of lightheartedness you'll find in this piece.
In 2018 we saw headlines such as this from NPR, "The Startling Statistics About People's Holocaust Knowledge"
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a new study which shows that many millennials don't know about the Auschwitz death camp and the true number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Two-thirds of Millennials between the ages of 18 and 34, could not identify what Auschwitz was.
If folks haven't been taught about the murder factory the Germans established at Oświęcim, Poland, they sure as hell never learned about the Ordnungspolizei and the Einsatzgruppen. Here's an attempt to rectify the omission.
From the New York Times, April 12, 1992, a review of the earlier stages of the mass murders:
The Men Who Pulled the Triggers....
