The Current Generation Has Lost Sight Of The Holocaust and Historical Anti-Semitism
Somewhere along the way something went terribly wrong. We developed a generation, or by now more than one generation, that either knows nothing about the Holocaust and historical anti-semitism, or minimizes it's importance. Today we see that evidenced in the anti-semitism on college campuses, and of course elsewhere.
Today's generations generally live in a world of permanent transience. Things that haven't happened recently are given no importance in their minds and attitudes. Some might say 80 years ago is "recent" (and they would be right in even the most minimal historical context), but to a generation brought up on instant gratification (and instantaneous communication) 80 years ago is an eternity to most of them.
Even though Jews have historically been the most discriminated against group in history on a worldwide basis young people today only know them as the ones who oppress the Palestinians. They dont have a balanced viewpoint, at all.
This has to change, but its not going to be able to change overnight.
They say young people dont care about history and it is not a popular subject for most of them in school. That damn well better change.
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Disrespectful little shits
Yes, their broad smiles indicate the impression that the horrors of that location has made upon them. I've never been there, but my kids have. The closest I got to that was when I toured Yad Vashem in Israel. I don't know if they do, but I would add sound effects to the buildings in Auschwitz - maybe that would help to make an impression.
It makes me wonder if there are pictures there that would give the little shits some perspective before they went with the selfies. I have never been to a concentration camp but I have been to a US military WW2 cemetery outside of Florence Italy. Not that there is any comparison per say but there was a definite feel of reverence there And while I took a few pictures of the grounds (they are beautifully and well kept) there was no smile on my face and I made sure to get no people in any of the pictures. The lack of respect shown here is amazing.
I doubt that these brain-dead morons have any idea what those tracks and that arch signify
Most colleges and universities are run and staffed by liberals. Most young people nowadays are not taught a balanced education, but essentially brainwashed with progressive ideology. This often starts in high school.
I dont think there is a progressive ideology that is anti-semitic.
These young people are historically ignorant and thoughtless, but it is not "progressive ideology" that is to blame.
Who was it that said the CA wild fires were caused by Jewish Space Lasers? Large Marge aka MTG? Pretty sure she's not a progressive.
Some folks love to walk around with their heads up their butts
It appears that The Holocaust will soon be just another page in the history books like the pogroms in Russia and the Spanish Inquisition.
I admit my high school and college education go back a ways but I find it hard to believe or understand that the holocaust wasn't thoroughly covered.
I know that what we see on TV may not be totally representative of what is being taught but there seem to be an alarming number of professors that buy totally into the premise of showing no balance at all.
I have to wonder if many kids were taught about the holocaust in high school where their attention span is shall we say limited. Then in college it seems the holocaust is forgotten and replaced by the very narrow view of the Palestine situation. Throw in a little boring Friday night and a flyer saying "protest with me" and you have a bunch of kids carrying signs without having a clue.
This theory does not explain some of what is going on in major cities and in a few cases the halls of congress. The amount of hate simmering and now boiling over is perplexing and more than a little sad.
I took some photos of Dachau in 1959/60 long before it was a tourist attraction. There were no smiling faces since the concentration camp was much the same as it was in 1945. Ovens, gallows etc. Those photos have only been out of the box once, and that was to show my kids what really happened. They went back in the box and have never been taken out since.
My father spent some time in Germany and Poland during and after WW2. While he has talked about his time in the Army he has never spoken about what he saw in the concentration camps. Unfortunately it is something the kids of today need to hear.
I agree and there is a lot more of history that they need to hear as well.
My grandpap was in a unit that came in after a camp was liberated to sweep up weapons and ammunition. They didn't want the freed victims to go on a vigilante run. He said you could smell those camps from 10 miles away (he probably exaggerated) and he insisted that there was no way the locals didn't know what was going on
I would agree with that, Trout. I had a couple of relatives that were some of the first into the camps and they said exactly the same thing as your grandpa.
I heard that when each group of Allied soldiers liberated a camp they were astounded-- they couldn't believe what happened there.
I also remember reading that President Eisenhower insisted that the concentration camps and horrors be well documented in film so there wouldn't be denial of The Holocaust in the future.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Camps LINK ->
Although there are a number of movies about The Holocaust I would say that two of them are ones that are required watching (although required, but I've never seen Shoah, which I understand is the most important one to learn about it) - Schindler's List and QB VII. QB VII does make the horrors of a Holocaust concentration camp pretty graphic, along with a few of the tortures Jews were put through.