Margaret Jorris
Newton
Elections do matter. In 1933, there was an election in Germany that eventually affected our whole world. The vote was more than 17 million for the Socialist Party — Adolph Hitler. The other 20 plus million votes were divided between three to five different political parties. If the German populace had only known what the next 10 to 15 years would bring.
In 1945, the Allies found more than 300 “camps” in Germany and occupied adjoining nations, where mankind’s inhumanity to mankind was rampant. Yes, we have been told that more than 6 million people, half of them of the Jewish race, died in those camps, but how can the human mind wrap itself around a number like that? Each number represents a human being, who was tortured, starved or “cared for” in a barbaric manner. One camp director wanted at least 600 Jews killed daily.
The reality of these figures and this brutality is so remote from our civilized mind that it needs to be seen to be believed. After the Liberation, many people from all over the world, including thousands of German people, were required to see this desecration. “See this, you who were in charge of the world; YOU allowed this to happen!” There is a video, “Memory of the Camps” available for us to see today.
Unless we learn ... history repeats itself. America: Learn — beginning with elections.