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42. A friend of mine just turned 70, and his father WAS beaten to death

Sat Feb 3, 2018, 04:25 PM

Feb 2018

His family escaped being sent to the death camps (they were/are Transylvanian Jews, Hungarian native language), but his father was the victim of an "interrogation" because Ceauşescu's Securitaţe was ordered to find some smugglers of airplane parts in their district, even though it was a rural area, most of which didn't yet have electricity or running water. After finding no airplane parts, despite beating my friend's father almost to death, the ethnic Romanian police expelled the undesirable Hungarian-speaking Jews to Germany. My friend's father died of his injuries within months of the expulsion. His crime was being of the wrong ethnicity. How familiar is THAT story?

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My friend whose family was beaten to death by gestapo [View all] tavernier Feb 2018 OP

It can easily get out of control. lpbk2713 Feb 2018 #1

Yes. Quickly. tavernier Feb 2018 #4

Control? It is a means of control. The modern hatemongers are very frightening. nt Hekate Feb 2018 #17

Exactly! mountain grammy Feb 2018 #29

And it can happen here atreides1 Feb 2018 #2

I agree with you. It absolutely can happen again. smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #3

Her father was ordered to shoot his father tavernier Feb 2018 #5

God, that is so horrible! I can't imagine such cruelty although I know it has and does smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #7

She is almost 80 but looks 60 tavernier Feb 2018 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author tavernier Feb 2018 #9

It has happened here-- not a nation gone insane like Germany in the 30s with... TreasonousBastard Feb 2018 #6

To be fair... jberryhill Feb 2018 #15

Rainey Bethea lunasun Feb 2018 #32

Folks we don't have to go back to far in American history, look at the 50s/60s when KKK iluvtennis Feb 2018 #10

or January, this year, sadly Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #11

You're all probably too young to remember Eric Sevareidbut.. Demoiselle Feb 2018 #12

..Er, Eric Sevareid. The but was meant to start the next phrase. Sorry. Demoiselle Feb 2018 #13

You can edit your posts lunatica Feb 2018 #22

I remember Eric Sevareid mountain grammy Feb 2018 #30

The hate is aleady helping to embolden groups like Atomwaffen Division herding cats Feb 2018 #14

My next-door neighbor and best buddy's grandfolks didn't make it through raven mad Feb 2018 #16

Do you mean Bergen-Belsen? dhol82 Feb 2018 #27

The US was half way there HeiressofBickworth Feb 2018 #18

i know it was bad, but what if it saved some from worse. pansypoo53219 Feb 2018 #20

Are you suggesting HeiressofBickworth Feb 2018 #24

ok then why not round up Germans in the US? lunasun Feb 2018 #33

They were harder to identify, for one. Mariana Feb 2018 #41

why did an older man KT2000 Feb 2018 #19

hate media is killing amerika. pansypoo53219 Feb 2018 #21

the hate starts at the local rw radio station and there is NO pushback certainot Feb 2018 #23

Limbaugh was the start of the hatefulness as far as I'm concerned. llmart Feb 2018 #34

unfortunately they put him on 600 stations, many major, so no one could escape it certainot Feb 2018 #36

And still most people don't understand this Tumbulu Feb 2018 #37

"Sticks and stones may hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me." Pacifist Patriot Feb 2018 #25

I agree. That's why it's important to protest and speak out in the face of hatred & hostility Honeycombe8 Feb 2018 #26

Right! Sophia4 Feb 2018 #28

The Rwanda genocide comes to mind too. summer_in_TX Feb 2018 #31

That is always in the back of my mind somewhere. And part of the USA certainly is well-armed... Hekate Feb 2018 #35

Time To Fight colsohlibgal Feb 2018 #38

It still happens. Daily. All over the world GatoGordo Feb 2018 #39

Hate sucks world wide wally Feb 2018 #40

A friend of mine just turned 70, and his father WAS beaten to death DFW Feb 2018 #42