Lessons from History?

[petrone]

Take a blunt lesson from history and the fate of the Jews.The right wing elements in temporary ascendancy in the Netherlands durng the Second World War,didn>t rush out and slaughter the resident Jewish population.No,it was a softening up process,little by little,a gradual degradation of humanity until the weight of all the littles added together,eventionlivually led to the barbaric oblivion we are all familiar with.
Check out the Dockworker>s statue at J.D. Meijerplein and commemorate the heroic, if unsuccessful,General Strike by the Dutch workers against the mistreatment of their fellow Dutch,Jewish citizens by the S.S. and their collaborators during the Occupation and take heart from it!

[joeuk]

edit youve posted in the wrong bit mate

[CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY]

Take a blunt lesson from history and the fate of the Jews.The right wing elements in temporary ascendancy in the Netherlands durng the Second World War,didn>t rush out and slaughter the resident Jewish population.....

yes this is in the wrong section, but i feel like saying something here... not really a for or against comment, just stuff ive being reading recently.

facism was pretty much 'in vogue' through out europe after the first world war, almost every european country had a sizeable facist movement obviously some larger than others. i was suprised recently to read about irish facism during the 20's and 30's (of any country you dont associate with right wing followers it ireland). German facism was fairly unique in its direction of hate towards the jews. italian facism and dutch facism had openly jewish members. the irony being that these facist parties openly supported the arrival of the nazis, to then have their jewish members purged by them. of course holland had a very brave and commendable resistance movement, but they did also have nazi collaborators/supporters, and i read a very interesting thing recently about the battle of Arnhem. allied troops were suprised to encounter a company of dutch soldiers fighting for the nazis.

i just find it interesting. history can look very black and white, these guys were on one side and these guys were on this side. but its never like that... every country has a huge array of people with different opinions and there were always supporters/enemys resitance/colloboartion in all countries.

[Cisco]

The German army had alot of foreign regiments including a Gran Brittania

[buster.g40]

The Catholic Church has always harboured anti-semetic feelings
and Ireland was,after WW2 used to "hide" some of the most wanted
non-German Nazis.The Catholic Church arranged for these men to be
transported illegally to Ireland,some stayed but many then travelled
on to South America and freedom,posing as Priests...

The Nazi's had an Indian unit too...Free India Legion recruited from
captured Indian soldiers and recruited by Subhash Chandra Bose with
the intention of freeing India from British rule...

The Nazi's recruited soldiers from all over the world...including Japan.

[Adamster]