I can't say I expected any better. People who obtain their first gun only when the Hun is on the horizon never understood (or actively misunderstood) its larger place in society and its political history.
"Many of these Jews believed the Nuremburg racial laws and the rising tide of anti-Semitism did not apply to them. They were not Ostjuden, whom they perceived as uneducated and superstitious. German Jews were cultured. They were patriotic. Many could trace their roots in Germany back for generations. One officer who served in the Waffen-SS was the descendant of Jews who had fled the Inquisition and settled in Germany four centuries earlier. Some German Jews even tried to halt the influx of their co-religionists fleeing the persecution and pogroms of Eastern Europe for fear that the presence of these unassimilated Jews would undermine their own social standing."
I'm reminded of Florida Governor Lawton Chiles claiming his folding stocked Ruger Mini-14 was a squirrel gun, not an assault weapon. Not all that different from a Jew trying to be the last to enter the gas chamber.
I can't say I expected any better. People who obtain their first gun only when the Hun is on the horizon never understood (or actively misunderstood) its larger place in society and its political history.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised. Consider this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/ellen-feldman-nazi-germany
"Many of these Jews believed the Nuremburg racial laws and the rising tide of anti-Semitism did not apply to them. They were not Ostjuden, whom they perceived as uneducated and superstitious. German Jews were cultured. They were patriotic. Many could trace their roots in Germany back for generations. One officer who served in the Waffen-SS was the descendant of Jews who had fled the Inquisition and settled in Germany four centuries earlier. Some German Jews even tried to halt the influx of their co-religionists fleeing the persecution and pogroms of Eastern Europe for fear that the presence of these unassimilated Jews would undermine their own social standing."
I'm reminded of Florida Governor Lawton Chiles claiming his folding stocked Ruger Mini-14 was a squirrel gun, not an assault weapon. Not all that different from a Jew trying to be the last to enter the gas chamber.