#494 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Friday October 28)
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Good morning, When I was a kid, I watched movies about World War II and learned about the Holocaust through the comfortable distances of geography, language and time. The culture of hate that spread from Germany to engulf much of Europe was completely foreign to an American kid growing up in middle-class suburb. The circumstances seemed so unlike our world—an instructive story of horror, but inconceivable to be replicated. I suspect to many of us, the horrors of the Holocaust were so foreign as to be lumped together with the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, and other atrocities of distant remove. In retrospect, of course, the antisemitism and industrialized killing of 1930s and 1940s Germany were not that long ago. From the perspective of an eighth grader in 1970, the end of the second world war was but 25 years earlier—as far in the past as 1997 is to us today.
#494 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Friday October 28)
#494 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Friday…
#494 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Friday October 28)
Good morning, When I was a kid, I watched movies about World War II and learned about the Holocaust through the comfortable distances of geography, language and time. The culture of hate that spread from Germany to engulf much of Europe was completely foreign to an American kid growing up in middle-class suburb. The circumstances seemed so unlike our world—an instructive story of horror, but inconceivable to be replicated. I suspect to many of us, the horrors of the Holocaust were so foreign as to be lumped together with the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, and other atrocities of distant remove. In retrospect, of course, the antisemitism and industrialized killing of 1930s and 1940s Germany were not that long ago. From the perspective of an eighth grader in 1970, the end of the second world war was but 25 years earlier—as far in the past as 1997 is to us today.