Dachau Concentration Camp and Joe Biden On Arming Ukrainians

 Nadene Goldfoot                           

Dachau Concentration Camp-work shall make you free-really???

A difference in political opinions has led to death and destruction throughout the world's history.  Europe has suffered from it since the beginnings of the 1st millennium CE (AD).  It's disheartening.  Look at the USA's Civil War that started in 1861 between the North and the South.  A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights.  It's power.  Who's got power over others?  That's central in political differences.  

Hitler passed his Emergency Decree on February 5, 1933 and all hell broke loose.  In just 3 weeks after this, he took his 2nd step towards dictatorship as by the 27th, the Nazis demanded new rules about "protective custody" and legalized imprisonment without warrant or trial came into effect. The Germans had given an inch and the Nazis took a mile.   

Speaking of differences, Joe Biden wanted to arm Ukrainians in their fight against Putin without getting the USA into trouble.  Senator Ted Cruz, who rarely agreed with anything Biden had to say when he was a Vice President, agreed with him about providing support to beleaguered Ukrainian fighters, as did Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.  Chancellor Merkel of Germany, on the other hand,  "can't see how arming people who are willing to fight and die for their freedom makes things better,"  while Lindsey Graham told reporters in Munich that "he did see how it makes things better."  This was back when John McCain was leading the US congressional delegation at Munich and Biden had given a speech to our NATO allies.  “I refuse to accept the demise of our world order...  I refuse to accept that our values are morally equivalent to those of our adversaries. I am a proud, unapologetic believer in the West.” These are the words of Senator John McCain from his address at the 2017 Munich Security Conference.  It was his last one.  (Open Link in new window)

By 1933, Dachau was the 1st concentration camp put into operation by the Nazis. It's location was in Bavaria of southern Germany, 10 miles NW of Munich.   The 1st prisoners were Hitler's political opponents, not the Jews unless they were part of that opposition at the time.  The Nazi opponents happened to be German communists, social democrats, and trade unionists.  then came Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, and other people the Nazis deemed as "Undesirables."

Prisoners lived in constant fear of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for extremely long periods. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented. Approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 prisoners were sick at the time of liberation.

By the late 1930's, the Nazis began to fill the camp with Jews.  Nazi beliefs and ideas about race shaped all aspects of everyday life and politics in Nazi Germany. In particular, the Nazis embraced the false idea that Jews were a separate and inferior race. This belief is known as racial antisemitism. Jews and Arabs are related distantly;  just read the Old Testament (Torah).  They are both Semitic people, but no one seems to recognize this fact because it was the Jews who were blamed for killing Jesus-the Christian "God." or God's son, as the New Testament tells. 

The number of Jewish prisoners also grew. After Kristallnacht of November 9th to 10th,  1938, over 10 000 Jews from all over Germany were brought to Dachau. They were released a few weeks later after promising to leave Germany. Most of them, following their experiences in the concentration camp, were only too glad to emigrate. But getting out was about impossible. 

My uncle had been picked up and placed in Auschwitz, and it wasn't until May 4th 1939 that he had the papers and money to get out but had to leave his parents and 16 year old red-headed sister who then all perished.  He may have been the last Jew to get out of Germany in 1939, boarding the SS Washington.  

The combined set of Nazi beliefs and ideas about race is sometimes referred to as “Nazi racism” or “Nazi racial ideology.” Like other forms of racism, Nazi racism was based on prejudices and stereotypes.  Because of anti-Semitism, Jews had become small business owners, working for themselves as it was hard to get hired by Christians.  Some became very successful.  When the Nazis attacked Jews, they were destroying their businesses which affected their Christian workers by putting them out of jobs and adding to their financial woes.  By destroying Jews, they were ultimately destroying themselves.  

Almost 30,000 prisoners were worked to death or murdered at Dachau between 1940 and 1945.  

                                  Niemoller in Berlin, 1936

"But, Nazi persecution quickly expanded to encompass a variety of other people and groups, including Niemöller himself. Most Germans did not object to Nazi actions. Rather, they either supported the regime or ignored the plight of their fellow citizens.

Niemöller believed that after the war many Germans were reluctant to confront their complicity with Nazism. In his lectures, he bemoaned that individual Germans failed to accept responsibility for Nazism, German atrocities in German-occupied countries, and the Holocaust. According to him, individual Germans were passing the blame onto their neighbors, superiors, or Nazi organizations like the Gestapo."

Martin Niemoller, a Protestant pastor,  was thrown into a German concentration camp at the end of the war who had written a famous well-repeated poem of warning:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out----

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out----

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out----

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me----and there was no one left to speak for me.  

The Jews of Germany had been among Europe's most assimilated, most cultured, most active contributors to the national life of the state in which they lived.  Hundreds of thousands of them had become an integral part of German society. Albert Einstein was one.   They had made significant contributions to German medicine, literature, science, music and industry.  They could not possibly believe, Benno Cohn later recalled, that this cultured German nation, the one which was the most cultured of the peoples of the world since time immemorial, would resort to such iniquitous things."  

"As the threat of Nazism spread throughout Europe, Jews were faced with a difficult decision, whether to leave their homeland or remain in the face of oppression. Many scientists made the decision to leave. In fact, between 1930 and 1941, twelve Nobel prize winning scientists came to the United States because of the threat of Nazi Germany. Seven of these twelve Nobelists were Jewish. These Jewish scientists included physicists Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, James Franck, and Eugene Wigner, and biologists Otto Loewi, Otto Meyerhof, and Otto Stern.  Upon arriving in the United States, the majority of the scientists worked on the east coast, at universities such as Princeton, New York University, Cornell, Fordham, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania (Schlessinger, 1996). Bohr, who had been forced to flee Denmark, Pauli, and Dam spent the war years in the United States but left America and conducted their research after the war. "

The people Nazis abhorred, Jews, communists, etc, could not protect themselves.   They didn't have a chance.  The Nazis made sure of that.  Those being attacked, like Israelis, and today's Ukrainians,  deserve the chance to protect themselves from aggressors.  Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war.  

Resource:

Book:  Joe Biden----Promise Me, Dad, by Joe Biden, p.108-109

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

The Holocaust-a history of the Jews of Europe during the 2nd World War, by Martin Gilbert, p. 35

https://www.holocaust.cz/en/history/concentration-camps-and-ghettos/dachau-2/

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/blog/remembering-senator-john-mccains-message-in-munich/

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/brau/H182/Term%20Papers/Eric%20Weiss.html

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/causes-of-the-civil-war/index.html#:~:text=A%20common%20explanation%20is%20that,key%20issue%20was%20states'%20rights.

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history#:~:text=Hitler's%20invasion%20of%20Poland%20in,globe%20than%20any%20previous%20war.

Nazis Cried that Darwin Made Them Do It

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                      

Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809, died in London on April 19, 1882 at age 73.  He was a biologist who couldn't stand the sight of blood.That's what kept him from becoming a doctor.   He published his Origins of Species in 1859.
                                                                             

               Adolf Hitler,b: Austria 1889, d: Germany 1945 at age 56

Leading Nazis were trying to say that it was all Darwin's fault that Hitler insisted on killing off all the Jews of the world.  He almost succeeded by managing to kill 6 million of us.  Now, where does Darwin fit in with all this horror and hatred?
                                                                             

Conspiring to kill off all the Jews.  You'd think Hitler was Haman of ancient Persia who tried                                                          to do the same thing.  

Hitler struck onto the idea of Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" and ran with the concept of  superior races and the survival of the fittest.  He must have been very jealous of the intelligence of the Jews and though he certainly was a non-practicing Catholic, did grow up in that environment of dislike of Jews.  So, taking the 2 factors, jealousy and dislike of these people, and mix in Darwin's survival of the fittest along with the superiority of races, and Hitler came up with a brand new philosophy which his whole country bought into.

 Why?  Was it because of his speaking ability that curls my toes when I hear him rant and rave?  Was that the proper style of the day?  He was a broken down unaccepted painter who couldn't paint pictures for a living and had to paint houses instead, bitterly.  He didn't have success as a starter to be heard.  Why did people ever listen to him?

When he came along, there weren't many successful Germans to be found.  They were all suffering from economic loss of money and jobs, so they must have identified with this man.  In doing so, and being a group that was used to following a leader and not being allowed to be individuals, they followed him, of all people because he told them to do it.

The German scientists should have called out -foul play on what he was preaching.  He was telling people that selective breeding, like farmers did with pigs and cows, were what they had to do with humanity, and they had to cull out the weak.  In his theory, the weak were the Jews because they were quiet and kept to themselves more than others.  They didn't cause trouble, but to Hitler, they were bad because they were the small businessmen and still had jobs and were not Catholics.  They still clung to their ancient religion of Judaism.   In reality, the Jews, an ancient line of people, had been studying and writing long before the Germans had left their barbaric ways.  They were part of the ancient Empires that Germans were not.  They had been traders and merchants when Germans were wearing animal skins.  Jews hadn't stopped evolving and thinking and progressing, especially in Germany, anymore than any other people.  They just had a head start on them, which didn't help in figuring the evil that was coming.  After all, Moses was born in1391 BCE and Jews had been following his teachings since about 1300 BCE.  King David was born in 1010 BCE.  Who could believe that humans would want to get rid of a whole race of people?

In Darwin's theory, natural selection was just that.  Nature took care of who survived and who didn't, but Hitler wanted to play G-d and do the selecting himself and nobody stopped him.  Nobody preached to the choir that this was wrong.  The religious view, from the Jewish Torah of Genesis, was that humanity started with an Adam and an Eve, and that we all came from this one source.

That was ignored by this group of people completely, so eager to follow a scientist named Darwin-or rather Hitler who interpreted it all for them.  .

As an aside, geneticists who work with DNA today have found an Eve and most recently an Adam.  It looks like we did all come from one source and just spread out all over on the face of this Earth.  Some of us hit the jackpot by ending up in nice warm places and others wound up on the edges of ice, making life more difficult, trying to survive the several ice ages that this Earth has experienced.

It was Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton,  who created the idea .of modern eugenics, a product of the 19th Century.  He says it came from the theory of Darwin's Evolution.

The Nazi movement had many scientist supporters, sadly.  Some scientists they were!   They concluded that the  Nazi treatment of Jews and other "races" like the Gypsies, then believed by them to be 'inferior,' was the result of Darwin's findings that could be used to improve mankind.    This is false.  Why would they want to improve others besides themselves?  It would just mean having more competition in the economic world.  No, they wanted to get rid of the competition.  This was their crutch, their excuse that nobody questioned. Empire builders from the very beginning of time never tried to do such things.  It was inhuman!  You could even say that only sub-humans would think of doing such things.

The theory of evolution comes from the idea that life forms acquire unique traits that enable those who also have new traits to survive better in adverse conditions compared to those who don't have these new traits.  The life forms with such traits were considered as 'superior.'  They took the basic teaching of Darwin of evolution and how animals evolved from one to another type, such as monkeys to people and emphasized an aspect of it, which was 'selection.'

Hitler said that they were Aryans and that this race was superior to all others and it was the people's duty to subjugate all other peoples.  The Master Race was born.  He said the Aryans were a Nordic race, coming from people of the Lost Continent of Atlantis.  This is why he liked blondes so much.  He thought them to be a pure race, not mixed with other groups at all.  Race placed the major role in the Nazi philosophy.  Hitler took a scientific new discovery, something not thought of before, and twisted it around for his own use.  There were actually a few people who stood up to him but were killed.  The rest didn't raise a finger against him.

So thanks, Dr. Darwin, for the trouble your research caused.  Certainly you couldn't have foreseen what some idiots would make out of it.  As for monkeys turning into humans, science today has found that nature has caused many types of 'people' and they didn't all make it to this period of time.  They just died out.  Natural selection, not their own, caused it to happen.  So monkeys did not turn into people after all.  That's just one line that did make it besides us.  We just haven't tried to kill them all off, thank goodness, nor they us.  As far as that goes, we find that Europeans all carry a certain % of Neanderthal in their genes, and some have some Denisovan genes.  Some have more of a % than others.  They are  branches of the tree who managed to mate successfully.  Notice, though;   no more Neanderthal or Denisovan gentlemen or ladies around.  Darwin would have been excited about this.  Today, the science ruling is DNA studies.  According to these scientists today, mankind started about 135,000 years ago.

Be thankful for the people in the USA who have a natural gift, perhaps their own DNA, coming from all the nations of the world, of questioning people.  Be thankful that we have Republicans and  Democrats who question each other's goals and motives.  It will be a sad day for everyone if we become sheep and just follow someone without questioning them if something doesn't seem right.  Americans have never been under a king or a Tsar and question, knowing they could have another leader with another thought in the next 4 years.  The insurance of this is to have an educational system where children are taught to question and do not fear doing so or challenging their teachers.  Also, another insurance against such arrogance is to have parents who teach their children to ask and to think for themselves without fear.

Resource:  http://creation.com/darwinism-and-the-nazi-race-holocaust
http://www.biography.com/people/charles-darwin-9266433
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2014/01/when-was-adam-eves-mate-born.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley-novel about eugenics.