Anschluss anniversary
In general I try to only bring up in this blog issues related to superstition. There are exceptions.
Given the time I spent in Austria I have been keeping up to date with what is happening there. Today is the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss. Most of the Austrian politicians seem to be rather ashamed of how the Nazis were welcomed into Austria. Some prominent Austrians, however, have a somewhat different take on things:
Words fail me. Here are two photos taken in 1945 in places other than Austria.
The first photo is of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rest of the city actually looked much the same after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 and the methodical blowing up of the all buildings in the city that followed it on Hitler’s orders.
The second photo is from Auschwitz.
Holy crap i am young and this disturbes me
Holy crap i am young and this disturbes me.
Your emotional response is the function of history, and it means you’re struggling to learn something. Everyone should not only be disturbed, but mindful that it never happen again.
Unfortunately, it has already happened many more times on various scales since then. And, indeed, it is happening right now.
I am german.. but i’ll never do such a thing like this…
I suspect that what happened had very little to do with the nationality of the perpetrators. The culture those people were brought up in may have played some role but, in truth, it now seems that most people would have been willing to act as some Germans did at that time. Much research had been done into the question of why people were willing to commit mass murder and a number of experiments, the most of famous of which is known as the Stanford experiment and was performed by Philip Zimbardo, seem to indicate that most people will turn into monsters if placed in a particular situation. My ‘favourite’ experiment of this type is the Milgram experiment which seems to show that around 60% of people are willing to electrocute to death another person simply when they are given orders to do so. Look up these experiments, they really are fascinating. The ‘good news’ for Germans is that they did not seem to be significantly more willing to kill under the conditions created by this study.
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Indeed Konrad Talmont. It’s happening right now. Much experiments show that people are able to kill. It’s in our nature.
A very moving post, and a very good point.
sad very very sad im a 6th grader learning about this a survivor acctualy came to my school and shes 87 years old. acussed of being a spy put in auschwitz concentration camp Elsie A. Ragusin. she wrote a book. “an american in auschwitz”. try to read it and spread the message lets make sure this never happens again!!!!!
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omg that is totally messed up i’d kill hitler if he was alive
It is infinitely more likely that you (and I) would become yet more of his victims.
Most likely. It is a shame though that we rarely hear of the other ethnic groups such as Serbs and Gypsies that were also killed by the Nazis along with how Poland suffered under German and Soviet rule. Besides there were NS groups in America at the time of Hitlers rise. Had America not helped Britain when we did I fear most of us would not be here. Besides Hitler was a coward, When being so close to being faced by the Red army he chose to kill himself. I am not saying it is right but also Most of my countrymen need to realize that most German soldiers didn’t really have a choice either. Which I am sure you know this already Konrad.
i thnk thjats really nasty please consider the following
cover the bodies up.
Covering up is precisely what the Germans did. They burned as many of the bodies as they could and the bodies they did not burn they put into mass graves. They did not wish the final solution be known about. Just one more reason why we have the moral responsibility not to cover the bodies up, metaphorically or literally. Living as I do surrounded by reminders of this genocide, I feel very strongly about this.
I have removed a comment by “ralph” that showed what a sad excuse for a human being he is. I can only hope that with time he will grow to be embarrassed and ashamed of having posted what he did.
i dont understand how can that many people still follow hitler after they found out what he was doing to all those people. And esspecially after they found out that he was doing it because they were not german or weren’t what he wanted them to be. I say that the people that followed hitler were more responsible then he himself was. cause they listened to him and did what he said to do, to kill all those jews and others. Just for the fact that they followed didn’t refuse was okay with killing them for no reason makes them a worse person then he was.atleast thats what i think
wait umm.. im in 7th grade, and ive seen much worse photos…. but are those just cinder blocks in the top picture? and body parts in the bottom? just making sure.