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Re: Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

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Post by __sr__ » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 7:46 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #26

__sr__ wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program. Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD. Events of the same magnitude as the holocast (or worse) happend again and again. Read about the ‘conquests’ of the likes of Mahmood Ghaznavi, Muhammad of Ghor, Taimur the Lame, Ahm…

> Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD. Can you recommend any books?

Here is a book about something that happened as recently as 1971 — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...

Re: Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

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Post by NeedMoreTea » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

I thought I recognised the name on the main gallery site. Witold Pilecki[0] was an astonishingly brave Polish cavalry officer who volunteered to be incarcerated in Auschwitz[1]. They wanted to get intelligence out and if possible organise resistance in the camp. He escaped after over 2 years, and volunteered to fight during the Warsaw uprising.

Edit: He survived that but was executed after the war by the Poles after a show trial and conviction for espionage. He'd been collecting evidence of Soviet atrocities in Poland.

[0] https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz

Re: Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

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Post by ggm » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 8:00 PM UTC

sctb wrote: post #8

onyva wrote: post #4

Isn’t it ironic that the new wave of fascism is led by a half German (drumpf) surrounded by so-called “Jews” and applauded by Israelis (some of which are 2nd and 3rd generation survivors)... Netanyahu wrote the playbook drumpf is using to attack “foreigners”, ie. same ideas spread by Israeli right in respect to Palestinians.

This isn't the site for generic political or ideological musings. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This isn't a generic, its highly specific.

Re: Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

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Post by Yoric » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 8:26 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #9

This will be very controversial but lately I've been wondering why is it that Germany's atrocities are still talked about however similar atrocities committed by the Allies are ignored. Let's take Britains rule in India, particularly the Bengal famine of 1943 that killed 2-3 million people (as it happened around the same time as concentration camps). https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ Let's not eve…

I'll start by answering the part of your questions about other atrocities. I believe it's as simple as: the Holocaust happened in Europe, which is where most of the developed world was looking at the time. Also, the West had managed to convince itself that it had outgrown atrocities, only to see them appear in its courtyard.

Now, as to why we are still talking about it, I believe it's a pretty good thing.

This does not mean that we should not also talk about other atrocities. Definitely, they should be taught and discussed and shown.

Re: Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

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Post by adamnemecek » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 8:33 PM UTC

__sr__ wrote: post #31

adamnemecek wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Read the history of Indian subcontinent from around 1000 AD to 1947 AD. Can you recommend any books?

Here is a book about something that happened as recently as 1971 — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...

Looks like something I should know about. Bought the book.