RE:Genocides

[Guest guest]

I am sorry for the delay in responding.

 

When reporters in 1939 asked Hitler how he

thought he could get away with killing Jews, he responded, “Who remembers

the Armenians?”

 

1.5 million Armenians disappeared off the

Earth in the early 1900’s in Turkey. The Turkish government

claims it never happened. No wonder Hitler thought he could get away with it.

 

Millions of Armenians fled to other

countries – my father and his family being some of them.

 

Just FYI.

 

Cynthia

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Behalf Of Peter

Sunday, August 07, 2005

12:41 PM

 

Re: Re: Your

imput please

 

 

 

Hi Anna

 

 

 

 

 

> When I

was taking U.S.

history in college we were assigned the task of writing a letter to a

Congressperson about any issue we

 

 

> wished.

I was big into " discovering my heritage " at the time and wrote a

letter complaining about the focus of the suffering of the

 

 

> Jews

during the Holocaust and the lack of focus on other groups that were targeted,

specifically my peeps, the Gypsies.

 

 

> (Incidentally,

while the number of Gypsies murdered during the Holocaust was far less than the

Jews, we suffered a greater

 

 

> percentage

of decimation to our population.) My professor liked it and told me he'd

give me extra credit if I actually mailed the

 

 

> letter.

I was a rather cantankerous young grrl in those days, so just to be a

beeyotch I sent it to Senator Feinstein.

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately it is all too often

forgotten that it wasn't just Jews who were persecuted by Nazis. In pure

number, more Poles were killed than Jews, but we never hear of " The Polish

Holocaust " , or, as you have highlighted, the Gypsy holocaust... or the gay

holocaust, communist holocaust. Unfortunately, nowadays, when anyone points

this out, they are automatically classified as " holocaust deniers "

(take Peter Novak for example!!!).

 

 

 

 

 

What really baffles me is that all those

who take this stance are also automatically branded as being anti-semitic, as

though the " holocaust " is somehow the justification of anti-Semitism

being wrong... the implication seems to be that anti-Semitism would be fine if

the holocaust did turn out to be a myth, and perhaps I'm strange (Nikki - just

hold that thought), but I don't see it that way!

 

 

 

 

 

BB

 

 

Peter