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In the discussion thread: For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]

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Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:40 PM

Harker (11,973 posts)

21. I'm over 60

and still haven't figured that one out.

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58 replies	Author	Time	Post
For the first 49 years of my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. [View all]	soothsayer	Sep 2020	OP
Absolutely.	LizBeth	Sep 2020	#1
I've spent most of my 70+ years worried about when it happens again	randr	Sep 2020	#2
Genocide is a constant theme in human history.	roamer65	Sep 2020	#3
An almost universal theme is the replacement of hunter/gatherers by agriculturalists	Klaralven	Sep 2020	#8
And now the workers/hunters/gatherers by technologists and vulture capitalists.	erronis	Sep 2020	#20
Yes, the '70s were the end of the "rising tide lifts all boats" era.	Klaralven	Sep 2020	#28
I bow to your wisdom.	jaxexpat	Sep 2020	#19
Same here	PatSeg	Sep 2020	#50
Well said, great post, TY.	appalachiablue	Sep 2020	#53
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." (Voltaire)	The Velveteen Ocelot	Sep 2020	#4
great quote, thanks ! nt	steve2470	Sep 2020	#27
Extremely germane quote.	scarletwoman	Sep 2020	#41
There is a classic scene in the movie "Hannah and Her Sisters."	madaboutharry	Sep 2020	#5
+1000	smirkymonkey	Sep 2020	#31
Rwanda being a more recent case in point...	Disaffected	Sep 2020	#38
Uyghurs, actually. Just FYI	aidbo	Sep 2020	#40
Thanks,	Disaffected	Sep 2020	#43
Phonetically it sounds like wiegers	aidbo	Sep 2020	#44
It does but,	Disaffected	Sep 2020	#49
Today the Rohingya in Myanmar are being raped and slaughtered by their government.	Marcuse	Sep 2020	#46
believers of 2 similar relgious groups conspire to kill members of a different religious group.	msongs	Sep 2020	#6
Intriguing. Christian and Muslim vs. Jewish?	erronis	Sep 2020	#23
Read Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen.	Sneederbunk	Sep 2020	#7
People Aren't Smart Enough	moondust	Sep 2020	#9
I think of this often	KT2000	Sep 2020	#10
K&R,	uponit7771	Sep 2020	#11
we need a lot more study and understanding of cognitive science	DaisyTom	Sep 2020	#12
Welcome to DU. You make a most excellent point.	niyad	Sep 2020	#15
.	DaisyTom	Sep 2020	#22
I think I disagree	CloudWatcher	Sep 2020	#32
I'm betting there are thousands of doctoral dissertations on this subject	erronis	Sep 2020	#36
That's for sure.	wendyb-NC	Sep 2020	#13
It's not surprising it happened when you look at anti semitism in Europe	JI7	Sep 2020	#14
Yes, the foundation was already set.	Buckeye_Democrat	Sep 2020	#24
Exactly what I told me kids.	Pepsidog	Sep 2020	#16
Indeed! nt	Wounded Bear	Sep 2020	#17
I read 2/3rds of the young people today never HEARD of the Holocaust.	Tommymac	Sep 2020	#18
Like many museums, the US Holocaust Museum	appalachiablue	Sep 2020	#51
Thank You so much for posting this. What We Do Matters.	Tommymac	Sep 2020	#56
I'm over 60	Harker	Sep 2020	#21
Some insight in these books	pat_k	Sep 2020	#26
Thank you. I appreciate that. n/t	Harker	Sep 2020	#58
A couple book you might be interested in	pat_k	Sep 2020	#25
You'll be seeing a lot of the Nuremberg defense in the next coming years	Dukkha	Sep 2020	#29
+1 At least one I suspect now who's been in the news	appalachiablue	Sep 2020	#55
I used to be mystified too, but no longer, I totally get it now nt	steve2470	Sep 2020	#30
It's Actually Easy To Do...	COL Mustard	Sep 2020	#45
Read John Dean's New Book if you want to understand what in human nature allows	Darwin2019	Sep 2020	#33
Link to publisher of Authoritarian Nightmare.	erronis	Sep 2020	#39
I was going through the same exercise last night, as I noted in the history forum here:	NNadir	Sep 2020	#34
Trump sounds more like Hitler every day.	patphil	Sep 2020	#35
The day Trump got the GOP nomination	CloudWatcher	Sep 2020	#37
Shanna Tova, Rabbi.....	COL Mustard	Sep 2020	#42
Same here. At the end of WWII,	TxVietVet	Sep 2020	#47
Rabbi, my husband & I agree, and we are 73. His parents survived the Holocaust...	Hekate	Sep 2020	#48
Yes. I see clearly now how the Holocaust could have happen.	Blue_true	Sep 2020	#52
Rt..	Cha	Sep 2020	#54
Me either	live love laugh	Sep 2020	#57

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