Anyone interested in the Holocaust?

Everyone who claims to be an American should read and pay close attention to anything telling about the Holocaust. We are headed back down that road now.

modirt wrote: So did Miller used to be Mueller? I had an uncle who changed his name to Miller from Mueller.....didn't want to be associated with the wrong sort. And for anyone interested, go visit the Holocaust Museum in Wash DC. I still fume when I even think of the movie Schindler's List. The one thing I always think was why didn't they put up a fight. Then you have to remember a few years prior to that, they confiscated all the guns.

Interesting times for sure as the Germans were full of innovation and spite- sad what Hitlers untimate end goal was how he even thought he could acheive it  , also sad the hard times and misery those people went thru 

There's a Holocaust Museum here in one of the suburbs here.  The wife won't go because it's so sad.  Her mother was born in 1933 Russia.  They foraged for several years making soup out of anything, mostly weeds.  They were stopped by German soldiers and put on a gallows.  An officer came by and got them off of it.  It was a brutal time for her, her mother and the others in their group.  Can you imagine being a 10 year old girl living thru those times?  She has a special dislike for the fascists!!  Learning all about those times in History classes was a very sad awakening.

If the war would have been set back any length of time Germany would have gotten the atomic bomb. It was intended to be used on them first. Also if we had stood up to Stalin more and had just gave them enough help to only keep them in the war
the western allies could have overrun all of Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. That could have possibly eliminated the cold war. Pattons 3rd Army over run a lot of that country anyway but had to give it back because of Roosevelt giving things away at Yalta. To Stalin. The west should have stood up for Poland. instead of giving it all to Stalin. A lot of the war materials that we sent to Russia should have been kept for our own use. The Nazis were pure evil in how they killed the Jews. But Stalin probably had more people killed than Hitler did. Both were satin.

I just got thru the first half of the book. It talks about her young life in Russia and all the dang snow they got over Christmas day. Hired man had to scoop out the back door it must have been completely covered in snow. They outlawed Christmas but celebrated New Years instead. Just got to the part where the Germans are coming. Gots a show on pbs I'd like to see at 10:30 tonight,probably won't be able to stay awake, I never got 1 minute of sleep last night. Sorta hurt some and the dang dog stood outside of my window, barked all night. At least I didn't have to get up and P.

I have a first cousin who married a Muller from Iowa.  I will have to check and see what part of Iowa he's from, he may be one of your long lost cousins

Both books The Holocaust Diaries and Major Jordan's Diaries sound like good reading. I'll look for them. Thanks.

  Never green I've never heard a good reason why we went to war with Germany but allied with Russia they were both evil, expanding and killing millions. I've heard some argue that WW11 was largely a failure in that much of what Germany and Japan had conquered ended up communist. In fact I think Churchill said something to that effect.

Wife and I went thru Dachau in 1954, just a few years after it was closed, you could still see ovens with ashes in them. Very chilling.