From the Orwellian department: police recruits tour Holocaust museum, learn about duty, decency [View all]

[chalmers]

Something tells me these jackbooted thugs aren't going to learn jack shit.

Norfolk police recruits tour Holocaust museum, learn about duty, decency and service

http://www.pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/norfolk-police-recruits-tour-holocaust-museum-learn-about-duty-decency/article_ed05cf21-c0fb-5a9f-8f67-4156f6f666c2.html

RICHMOND

The old Jew shuffled inside, leading a flock of Norfolk police recruits into the boxcar.

Rick Cohen, 81 years old, told the fresh-faced 20-somethings the role it played in the murder of 13 million Jews, gays, political dissidents and anyone else the Nazis found undesirable. This is where the Nazis, often with the help of local police, crammed 100 to 120 Jews for five- to seven-day trips to concentration camps. They had no food or water. They couldn’t budge.

So, Cohen continued, they urinated where they stood. They defecated where they stood. They threw up where they stood. And when the person next to them died, there was nothing they could do to escape death.

Norfolk police took a new batch of some 25 recruits to the Virginia Holocaust Museum earlier this month. Sending them to Richmond was a first, but Chief Michael Goldsmith had made two other classes tour the National Holocaust Museum in Washington over the past year. His aim in both cases is to show them what can happen when power is untethered from duty and decency.