A
mother, a child, a death pit. German and Ukrainian (collaborator)
soldiers following the order by Heinrich Himmler. October 13, 1941,
Ukraine.
"l still remember the young girl,
slender and dark, who, passing near me, pointed at herself, saying,
"twenty-three."I walked around the mound and faced a frightful common
grave.
Tightly packed corpses were heaped so
close together that only the heads showed. Most were wounded in the
head, and the blood flowed over their shoulders.
Some still moved. Others raised their hands and turned their heads to show that they were still alive. The ditch was
two-thirds full. I estimate that it held a thousand bodies.
Here
in Berlin and more and more across Germany, we have so-called
"Stolpersteine." These are solid metail stones, which are embedded in
the street, where a former German jew or family lived, who was killed
during the holocaust.
I think - but did not
yet "google" for it - that there is even an Overview of all
"'Stolpersteine" across Germany and the details of the respective
families or people who murdered.
When
you casually stroll through Berlin, you again and again encounter these
"Stolperstein.". It shows that these were not some distant people who
were killed off. But rather neighbours. Some were for sure reported by
"fellow Germans" for being a jew. Others were taken awa, and all
neighbours were simply too afraid to do something.
Like
the eye-witness report I read some time ago about a lady who watched
how armed men took away their jewish neighbors. A family of 4. Mother,
father, and two kids. One of them being a toddler.
The
family was not surprisingly agitated and the toddler crying and one of
the armed men, while shouting commands for them to get in the car or
van, took the toddler away from the crying mother and slammed it into
the wall of the car/van until it stopped crying. Then he gave the corpse
back to the mother, and all were loaded into the van and vanished (in
one of the concentration camps for sure).
The
same men would go home the same evening and kiss their kids goodnight.
It is hard to process. But it has happened way too often in history. It
happened during the last century, and it is happening today. We need to
remember history, teach it well, and make sure that something like this
never happens again.
Same goes for the other
side of the isle bro left and right are both inflammatory and self
righteous. If things go sideways like that it's not a stretch at all to
think there aren't just as many people who would throw a bunch of
"fascist Nazis" in a pit. It's a crazy time to be alive, people don't
like to agree but we have to all come together and realize that things
are the way they are because of the people at the top. They have pit us
against each other and it's such a shame.
So if a bunch of "fascist Nazis" throw me in a pit it's wrong to fight back? That's like ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM to an extreme.
The
difference is that the people who the far left calls "fascists' are
anyone who disagrees with their leftist agenda. None of the people
antifa killed during the 2020 riots for example, were actually fascists.
The
Germans involved didnt need much coercion, nor were they desparate.
They would have seen this as part of their overall struggle. The
Ukrainians were a more complicated situation. Many, particularly in the
western Ukraine, were quite anti-semitic and saw the Nazis as their
liberators.
Despite Germany being the most extreme offenders, the Soviet union too has a long History of antisemitism.
Many of the survivors of WW2 were treated poorly under Stalin, sometimes deported or forced to swear off their faith.
This
is how my grandfather's side of the family was killed. On May 29, 1942,
the Jews in their village in Belarus were marched out of the Ghetto to
the local cemetery and executed. Witness Interview Yulya P.:
"The
Jews had to go down into the pit. They had to stand in a line, before
being fired on all at once with a machine gun and falling into the pit.
The Jews were clubbed on the head, adults had their hands tied behind
their backs and the children cried. They had to lie down on the previous
"layer" of Jewish bodies which had been arranged. If they were next to
the pit, policemen pushed them in with their feet.
The
policemen were scum. They betrayed and shot their own friends."
(Eyewitness N°27, interviewed in Dokshitsy, on March 27th 2008) Soviet
archives "AIl 3,000 or 3,500 Jews had been kept in the Dokshitsy ghetto.
They were taken out of the ghetto in groups of 100-1 50. They were, for
the most part, women with children, old people and young people.
They
were taken to a pit near the Jewish cemetery of Dokshitsy, where they
were forced to undress and shot. This mass extermination lasted three
weeks and all JewS from the ghetto were shot." [Act drawn up by the
Soviet
extraordinary commission.
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