The AJC (con't.)

 09.30.2022

Did you know that words of hate travelled America to ban Jews from being bankers, lawyers, teachers, and more. Some neighborhoods wrote covenants banning Jews. Some hotels advertised 'Only for Gentiles'.

Henry Ford fanned the flames of antisemitism, and spread the hate. He even bought a newspaper that had the second highest circulation in the country. 

Did you know that during the early days of The Great Depression, as folks were grasping to make ends meet, millions of immigrants, lots of these folks legal, were rounded up & sent out of the U.S.? Welcome to America. This is of course post-genocide of Native Americans & African Americans.

The Great Depression had also hit Germany, and became Hitler's chance to put his bullshit into action. People, with unemployment rampant & resources dwindling, saw Hitler's scheme as a way out. Initially. (Had it not been for my paternal great grandparents earlier immigration from Germany before it all hit the fan, from my Dad's parents on down, I wouldn't be writing this.)So Dad, born in 1927, and Mom, born in 1931, knew Depression life. And we're white. White Privilege made life a wee bit more comfortable for them, opposed to so many others.

Hitler's 'Brown Shirts & SS' would roam streets, beating and even detaining anyone that looked like they may be Jewish. We should never avoid learning more about these gentlemen. And they grew in numbers as time went on. Once Hitler had amassed his HUGE armies and built ships and planes and submarines, he felt greatly empowered, enough do that he did not care who crossed him. He kept on perpetuating lies and other means of propaganda that swayed Germans to believe Jews should be done away with. 

Had enough? Because it gets uglier.

Dachau was the first of many of the concentration camps, and it was quickly populated and put to work. Families separated, put to work, or killed, or identified for the horrors of human experimentation, was only  a part of this great attempt of extermination.

I know I bounce around a lot, so please forgive me. These facts are in no order, as I have to stop, cry, and try to remember where I was all too often. I'll stop for tonight & pick back up tomorrow.

Thank you for stopping by.