Yes I agree. It my be that being an old man I am just not as good at conveying my intentions as well as you younger people. I wondered why you would think that I thought that the "holocaust means Jews only" so I went back to post #15(my first post to you) to see if it I worded it incorrect my intention in explaining singular verses plural "Holocaust(s)" is because I was concerned the many others(including these you named) were being forgotten but I'm glad you understand it includes many races and religions. I also noticed I miss added in the math(lol, forgive me I'm old).
This all seems a lifetime away to me now it makes me remember when my uncle came home from the war. He was in the Navy and suffered from shell shock(bombs blowing up close by) and so he would be talking and twitch his head and grin. I was a boy(10,11) and so I thought he was picking at me and I did it back to him,my mom gave me a good talking to and explained to me why. A man who was a German POW lived next door and filed for citizenship after the war told me that every German was not that way. He told me that he was taken into the Army(by force) at 17 and by the time he was captured he had didn't want to go back because of what he saw. In a while all the old ones who remember those days will be gone and people will think what they think in many ways it seems they already do.
This all seems a lifetime away to me now it makes me remember when my uncle came home from the war. He was in the Navy and suffered from shell shock(bombs blowing up close by) and so he would be talking and twitch his head and grin. I was a boy(10,11) and so I thought he was picking at me and I did it back to him,my mom gave me a good talking to and explained to me why. A man who was a German POW lived next door and filed for citizenship after the war told me that every German was not that way. He told me that he was taken into the Army(by force) at 17 and by the time he was captured he had didn't want to go back because of what he saw. In a while all the old ones who remember those days will be gone and people will think what they think in many ways it seems they already do.
Most people I knew didn't know he was killing people for quite awhile, it was a terrible shock. Many ordinary people carried out his order to kill. That meant that it was possible for some of our countrymen to be turned into killers.
Readers Digest reported a study done at a hospital in the US to test people to see if they would obey orders to harm people if they thought they came from an authoritative source, and reported that some people would do that. Of course, they weren't allowed to carry out the orders.
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