{"quotes":[{"text":"...The typhoon of madness that swept through the country [of Rwanda] between April 7 and the third week of May accounted for 80 percent of the victims of the genocide.That means about eight hundred thousand people were murdered during those six weeks, making the daily killing rate at least five times that of the Nazi death camps. The simple peasants of Rwanda, with their machetes, clubs, and sticks with nails, had killed at a faster rate than the Nazi death machine with its gas chambers, mass ovens, and firing squads. In my opinion, the killing frenzy of the Rwandan genocide shared a vital common thread with the technological efficiency of the Nazi genocide--satanic hate in abundance was at the core of both.","author":"John Rucyahana","tags":["death","genocide","hatred","nazi","rwanda"],"id":14243,"author_id":"John+Rucyahana"},{"text":"One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.","author":"Andy Rooney","tags":["evil","nazi","patriotism","pride","virtue","war"],"id":17989,"author_id":"Andy+Rooney"},{"text":"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["eugenics","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-survivors","immigration","jewish","jews","nazi","nazism","racism","roosevelt","scientific-racism","survivors","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":19289,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"On April 1, armed SA men took up positions in front of Jewish businesses and tried to prevent customers from spending money in them. Some troops painted anti-Semitic slogans and Stars of David on display windows; others were content to hold up signs calling for a boycott and to curse at Jewish businessmen. Some areas also saw looting and acts of violence.All in all, this display of activism made a very negative impression on most people, and the thuggish SA men with their uneducated bellowing were left even less popular among the general population than they had been before. Although very few Germans openly declared their solidarity with their Jewish fellow citizens, the boycott did not, as it was intended to do, set German gentiles against German Jews. On the contrary, ordinary people felt sorry for them, and if reports by the Nazis, who were disappointed by the boycott, are to be believed, the amount of commerce done afterward by Jewish-owned business did not decline at all.","author":"Rudolph Herzog","tags":["anti-semitism","germany","history","nazi","third-reich"],"id":19543,"author_id":"Rudolph+Herzog"},{"text":"Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["african-americans","anti-blackness","black-people","hate","hatred","hitler","holocaust","nazi","race","race-relations","racism"],"id":25580,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"The 2016 USA presidential election race clarified how an evil Nazi dictator like Adolf Hitler was able to come to power in global politics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["2016","able","adolf","clarified","come","dictator","election","election-2016","evil","global","hitler","nazi","political-philosophy","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","power","president-of-the-united-states","presidential","presidential-election","presidential-race","race","usa"],"id":35552,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"More to the point, one cannot understand The Holocaust without understanding the intentions, ideology, and mechanisms that were put in place in 1933. The eugenics movement may have come to a catastrophic crescendo with the Hitler regime, but the political movement, the world-view, the ideology, and the science that aspired to breed humans like prized horses began almost 100 years earlier. More poignantly, the ideology and those legal and governmental mechanisms of a eugenic world-view inevitably lead back to the British and American counterparts that Hitler’s scientists collaborated with. Posterity must gain understanding of the players that made eugenics a respectable scientific and political movement, as Hitler’s regime was able to evade wholesale condemnation in those critical years between 1933 and 1943 precisely because eugenics had gained international acceptance. As this book will evidence, Hitler’s infamous 1933 laws mimicked those already in place in the United States, Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Canada. So what is this scientific and political movement that for 100 years aspired to breed humans like dogs or horses? Eugenics is quite literally, as defined by its principal proponents, an attempt at “directing evolution” by controlling any aspect of human existence that affects human heredity. From its onset, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and the man credited with the creation of the science of eugenics, knew that the cause of eugenics had to be observed with religious fervor and dedication. As the quote on the opening pages of this book illustrates, a eugenicist must “intrude, intrude, intrude.” A vigilant control over anything and everything that affects the gene pool is essential to eugenics. The policies could not allow for the individual to enjoy self-government or self-determination any more than a horse breeder can allow the animals to determine whom to breed with. One simply cannot breed humans like horses without imbuing the state with the level of control a farmer has over its livestock, not only controlling procreation, but also the diet, access to medical services, and living conditions.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["adolf-hitler","charles-darwin","eugenecist","eugenics","francis-galton","government-regulation","harry-h-laughlin","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-revisionism","joseph-mengele","legislation","national-socialist","nazi","nazism","racism","scientific-racism","totalitarian","totalitarianism","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":48004,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Past is PrologueThis book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper with misinformation. Clarity and transparency are imperative, as they leave no room for denial theories that would deprive the victims justice, or rob the living of a future. Generations of historians have enthusiastically gone about their craft knowing full well that 'he who owns the past, owns the future'. Improperly documented history, or more precisely, fraudulent versions of history not only deprive the victims of pasts injustices due recognition of their suffering, but also rob the living of a fair chance at a future free from the dangers of repeating past injustices.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["eugenicist","eugenics","historical-revisionism","history","holocaust","holocaust-denial","holocaust-history","national-socialism","nazi","pseudo-science","revisionism","science"],"id":48425,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne.","author":"John Pearce","tags":["nazi","paris","world-war-ii"],"id":61728,"author_id":"John+Pearce"},{"text":"​One could have mistakenly assumed that each train could choose its own destination. But there was no choice. The Nazi operator sat in the station booth, his hands on levers and switches, forcing each train along its given path.","author":"Danny M. Cohen","tags":["choice","fate","holocaust","nazi","no-choice"],"id":70100,"author_id":"Danny+M.+Cohen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}