Reply #61: My Grandparents escaped Nazi Germany and yes, the comparisons are very [View All]

[Pachamama]

real and very accurate....

So, if I follow your argument, because Hitler supposedly had an IQ of 150 and Bush 90, there is no comparison? Or because you know "conservatives" and "Bush Supporters" who are nice people and think what Hitler and the Nazis was wrong, there are therefore no comparisons to be made either? HUH?

My grandparents left Germany shortly after all hell broke loose after Kristall Nacht occurred. We are not jewish, but my Grandparents were intellectuals and had many jewish friends who were business merchants and teachers. When they saw what was happening and how bad it was getting they high tailed it out with their family out of the country. They were able to leave with the clothes on their back and whatever they could carry. Fortunately for them, they had money and funds outside of the country and enough jewelry and funds to bribe their way out.

While they are not alive now, the comparisons are very valid. My Grandparents had many discussions with me about how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis came to be. It wasn't overnight and it wasn't obvious to most people that things were getting bad or dangerous until it was too late. My grandparents left early enough. They saw what was going on, but there were plenty of naysayers who doubted the rumored intentions of Hitler and the Nazis early on. And even after my grandparents left, there were still people who "doubted" it was "all bad" or going down a dangerous path. My grandparents had heard early rumors about the concentration camps (then referred to as work camps or detainment camps for the communists who were trying to undermine the Reich) but so many doubted they were being done will ill intent or that people were being violated or treated inhumanely.

The Nazis were one of the worst and most evil regimes in recent world history. And I'm sure that as they were rising in power during the early years that no one ever thought they would become so bad and become the Ghengis Khan's of the 20th Century....Well, we are now in a new Century and this group of "Project for the New American Century" folks might not look so bad, but we are in the early stages.

It can happen here. And according to the lessons I learned from my Oma and Opa, its when the kind of things that are happening RIGHT NOW get ignored, that is when we are at the greatest risk of it going worse. Now is also the most critical time for people to see the dangers and to stop it before it gets worse.