As we again approach Holocaust Memorial Day, we again ask:
“Are we there yet?”
Forget excuses, deflections, “Godwin’s Law”…
No, we’re not there yet.
But we will be.
Unless we stop those working to take us there.
Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us.
A🧵/1.
“Are we there yet?”
Forget excuses, deflections, “Godwin’s Law”…
No, we’re not there yet.
But we will be.
Unless we stop those working to take us there.
Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us.
A🧵/1.
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Dear Fritz, Dear Barbara!
After an infinitely long time I am allowed to write to you, the still existing branch of the family – or so I hope – and to tell you the events of the last 3 years. /2.
Here, at least 200,000 people died. First thousands of political Germans, afterwards thousands of the enslaved nations.
*Ed. note: located in Nazi Austria. /4.
My comrades died in greatest misery.
Starved to death.
Asphyxiated in gas chambers.
Shot in the neck.
Torn to pieces by dogs.
Slain with cudgels and stones.
Murdered by benzene injections. /5.
As a camp clerk later on I saw, with my own eyes, thousands of people die.
Before the SS fled, in order to hide their crimes, they poison gassed all those who were ill due to starvation. /6.
My Regina, with whom I had been happy for 6 years, died together with our 3 year old child in the gas chamber at Auschwitz. /7.
Point of order: Godwin's Law was rescinded in August 2017 after the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was killed.
The rest is history & Pellosi.
There's a rise in support for political parties... that are quick to point at the Other. The outsider. The unwanted. Be they migrants, Muslims, LGBTQ+ people or Jews."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8x195dnlro