T: Is for Troubled Times

There are lots of movies out there right now about the holocaust. Tonight I saw Defiance. With each of these movies there is inevitably the scene where nobody believes that humanity could conceive of such a fate of another human being. A holocaust, according to Webster's dictionary, is a complete destruction by fire. The destruction starts of the soul. People lost the ability to see what was happening. They lost constructive reasoning. In Europe, during this period, there was a complete destruction by fire of homes, businesses, neighborhoods and people. This destruction was carried out under the direction of Adolf Hitler, during the years 1939-1945, but it actually began earlier, in 1933, when Hitler came in to power in Germany. The Holocaust, which was caused by ignorance could of been prevented. Much like the warnings of Wall Street with the Enron scandal. The Soviet attitude were more concerned for its own survival, The British fought in defense of their own interests which luckily coincided with the defense of humanity. At first the thought of such destruction in Europe was incomprehensible to other Nations. The suffering of hundreds of millions and ignorance cause of the death of over 6 million lives. By not recognizing the events leading to the Holocaust people walked into their fates. It started because rising inflation left many Germans poor and jobless. Political differences exploded into a new democratic government. That government was unable to prevent disorder and caused people to lose faith in democracy. Hilter, offered a solution. Hitler blamed most of Germany's problems on the Jews. Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor were rumored to be death camps, where human life was soon to be destroyed. In this country we have been building these same kind of camps and we sit idly by. We associate the holocaust with just the Jews but homosexuals, disabled and gypsies were also experimented on and killed. Who ever the government felt was an undesirable was terminated so who is next. We need to wake up and that is a F.A.C.T.