Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009

Sir Salman Rushdie" <wipingmyarse@withthekoran.com> wrote:

   Usenet's Fagin has every right to be worried.
   Praise the L*rd and pass the information:

From: "Stan Pierce" <tpie...@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: Adolf Hitler - The lies are collapsing under their own
weight
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:44:24 GMT

"Well Dr. Barry,  I could tell you the sound
of a Dornier bomber right now if I heard the engines.
I'll live with that sound and the screaming of people
alight because of them till my dying day.  I should
never have had to suffer that at the age of five.
I still burst into tears hearing the planes on
documentaries.

My parents generation were far from informed on what
was going on even when we were being bombed shitless
for months on end.  It was a carefully controlled
story we were told after it all too.  There was no
minute by minute news.  No television.  Just black
and white photo's of a 'win' in a bombing raid
photographed from thirty thousand feet.  Real
dramatic stuff !

There were the 'hero' stories that as kids we all
loved...and the films. The ending was always the
same...WE were the goodies and we won. We never
knew about many of the disasters on our side and
nothing about the secret war with the Enigma until
thirty years after the events.

I swallowed whole the Nazi bogeyman and all the
horror of them for sixty years until I got a computer
ten years ago and found out about the Communist threat
to Germany, who's money was behind it, and why Hitler
was so hatefull to the jewish people.  I never knew
a thing about that side of it until then.

It made me think about those times again...not change
my mind though.   The horrors did happen.  The
evidence is too great. What I think most posters
complain about though is the   'Industry'  that has
surrounded the horrors as though they were the only
thing to think about.  The constant barrage of
who the enemy was.  For me that no longer bears up.

It was all a massive balls up by Churchill as I see it
now.  He chose the wrong enemy.  He made the whole
english speaking world  fight Hitler instead of Stalin.

I would like to think he was right so I could have
that comfortable feeling of an old man being
satisfied that it was all worth while. But the
evidence as I see it now is all against him.
 Fifty million people dead .  It's hard to believe a
human being can make a mistake of that magnitude.  And
the world story still seems to concentrate on six
million jews...the very people who had a hand in the
cause of the war.

But it will take the next generation to look at the
evidence without the fear of prosecution before the
full story is told.  You may think this side of the
story is crap.  I don't."

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