By Roland
Lohr gen Stahl
On January
27th, 68 years ago the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, ironic that it was the Red
Army, while saying let this "never again", but how does it actually
look like today and how will it be measured in the future?
As in all
previous years they gathered at the Raoul Wallenberg's place (Sweden), a dozen
had come to commemorate the Holocaust and their own sacrifices at the foot of
the Holocaust monument at the Jewish Synagogue. The candles symbolize the six
million Jews, a million Romes, disabled and homosexuals who were killed in the
death camps. Not listed are the millions of German´s and other nations, also
imprisoned and murdered in the camps, and beyond.
What also
should be addressed “today” is the question if Germany as a nation "should
bear the blame alone?"
The Jewish
people, today the "Israeli people" have been hunted for generations through
Egypt into Europe, Spain, France and Germany. All had one thing in common, to
drive out the "Jews". In the end it was Germany who had to take their
fair share, but ended in hideous forms. In parallel with this, we had other
examples of places and inhuman treatments of prisoners, Stalin and Siberia, an extreme
location in the old Soviet Union, still existing and still refusing to open their
files. But there are also many other examples of atrocities after World War II,
made by nations like the U.S., Russia, China, North Africa and the Middle East.
“Ironically ongoing torture and abuse on
people, secret abductions without charge or trial in Guantanamo by the United
States, one of the liberators of the Jews in Germany, are made by the US
perfectly legitimate.”
I'm not
saying what Germany did was right, no, it was wrong but it came out as a final
result of all events with the Jewish people for generations as being displaced,
and with the Catholic Church as the driving force. It did not end with the war
and the creation of Israel, it did continue and continues still today.
What we see
today is that anti-Semitism did not end, but we see other forms of
anti-Semitism today throughout the world, in the U.S., in Europe, Sweden and
the Middle East.
One
question that comes up is what are our thought´s about human dignity. How can
it be measured, with power, money, weapons….? In the same moment when we know that
children of today around the world are sold as a victim to child armies, as
cheap labor or sexual victims (trafficking). How can we explain the importance
of compassion, when we see children and adults who are kidnapped, captured and
tortured in Guantanamo, or suffering in the war Afghanistan, Syria or see on
the famine in the Horn of Africa? They represent only a few of many examples
where war and abuse of power today with millions of victims every year.
Someone
said that "no one thought about
concentration camps as possible," but it was really something that other
had made use of before, but called it by other names, labor camps, and did hide
it. We should of course talk about these, unintended, where ever they are, we
know that they are left in today's Siberia. Some say that what happened must
remain in us to remember and be remembered for ever so now one can say "it
was not that bad." No belittle the events, except those that reject events
in Germany at that time. However, while the memory of the Holocaust eventually
diminish its own power.
We are living
in a “new spirit of age” in which racism and extremism, regardless of which
political side it will grow is growing. We have dictatorships that disappear
and new extreme countries are formed, people flee to escape, many dies, some
are starving and new entrepreneurs appears on the arena without any compassion.
This is done openly, often with the involvement of major nations who are enriching
themselves at the expense of the poor. War pays for some, while the war is
costing much more, but then finance are made organizations and the entire
nation, but only benefits, these are often old generals, politicians or senior
people who are behind the new company dealing with weapons, arranging
logistics, new security companies contributing to the illegal transactions at
arms, drugs or money transport that contributes to corruption and other things.
Who is responsible for the Holocaust and the
traditional anti-Semitism?
For me and
many others Germany should not be the bearer alone for the guilt of the
Holocaust, Germany as nation became only a tool for the Catholic Church and
Adolf Hitler as trustee. One of many accomplices, the Catholic Church for
centuries condoned, promoted and disseminated the Bible anti- judaism and
anti-Semitism and thus ideologically have prepared the Holocaust.
It was
Germany that became the scene of an end to this issue, but it could just as
well be any other nation. Pius XII, who was the originator of the Concordat
between the Vatican and Hitler in 1933 is responsible as Pope from 1939 to
1958, so the Church indirectly should be contributed to pay damages, and the existence
of the Vatican should be questioned.
The
conclusion by “Goldhagen” are based on two grounds. The persecution of Jews in
Germany was a historical continuity, the Holocaust was not an isolated
phenomenon but the logical consequence of the traditional anti-Semitism that
pervaded the entire German society since the 1800s, which evolved into the Nazi
belief that "the Jewish race "must be eliminated.
The second
conclusion was that the German people during the Hitler era, had known about
and they colluded with the mass murder of the European Jews and so did even
other country´s.
These ideas
have found support at different times by different personalities not in favour
of the majority of the German branch.
In Sweden
it was silent about the Holocaust for a long time in order not to offend
Hitler, even that they had known about the camps for a long time. The Pope at
the same time refused his help and looked away, even when the converted Jews
deported from Rome.
Debt issues
are extremely complex, and we are not finished with it in a long time and the
result of this might change with future developments.
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