The Rumors

The G.I.s had heard rumors.  All during the war there were rumors, but the national press did not print them.  The rumors were that Nazis were killing thousands of people because they were Jews, or retarded, or Russians, or Poles.

But war is war, and the allies were not totally innocent either; enemy soldiers who surrendered were shot down sometimes, especially by Polish and Russian soldiers.

And boatloads of migrant Jews had been turned back by the United States, returned to Germany, in yet again another spasm of nativism in the United States (it is inflicting us now as a matter of fact).

And most WASPs didn’t like Jews anyway.   They didn’t know why, their parents taught them.

So the war went on and on, and finally it ended in Europe.  And at the end, the G.I.s found them, the camps.

Many still don’t realize that the concentration camps were purposefully put close to urban areas.  One reason is that rail transportation served the death camps and terminals were in cities; but Hitler wanted the populations to know the fate of resistance and what it would be.  Hitler had the German people scared of him constantly; just like Trump.

So the smell of the crematoriums was present for years.  People knew  what was going on, but they just didn’t talk about it...

But like Ms. Barr, they ignored it.  They made up stories justifying it, the Jews caused the war, the Jews ate Christian babies, (Mexicans are murderers and rapists)....

And so German citizens lived in blissful knowing ignorance, seeped in racism and prejudice.  But Nazis were on top, they promised and delivered at first, nearly winning the war and returning the spoils of war to Germany who prospered....for about three years.

And then came a reckoning, defeat on all fronts.  And the camps ramped up their “production” killing millions.

I was born right after the war.  I grew up watching the films reacting to the horrors the G.I.s found when they liberated the death camps.  I saw the German citizens who were forced to clean up the camps because they still denied what THEY had done; and they had excuse after excuse.

Just like the hater Barr.  They had been so propagandize that just like Barr and millions of Americans today, they believed what the leader said without question.  And when called on their hate, they usually turned on the dissenter, which was a death sentence.  Citizens snitched on other citizens, being patriotic, hurling hate at their “enemies” who had been created by propaganda.

And that is EXACTLY WHAT MS. BARR DID...AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT FOX NEWS IS DOING AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT TRUMP IS USING CONSTANTLY!

Look it isn’t rocket science.  Using hate and lies to motivate and scare people, who don’t need much scaring because they are racist anyway, isn’t hard.  

Trump used the white backlash against an African American President to motivate the broad reserve of white supremacists in the country....and Barr was right there to take and use the bait.

So she knew EXACTLY what she was doing, just like some of my neighbors and friends know what they are doing right now.  It is not her sleeping medicine!  

It is not hard to understand and can be described in one sentence:  They are scared because more diversity is taking place around them and rather than accept it, they reject it with hate and prejudice.  They voted  for a racist.

And one day, the reckoning will come...Ask Germany and Japan how that went.