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Subject: Responsibility for the Holocaust: Reply to Saumya Debray
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> Mark Roddy:
> > As these people were feeding my relatives into the chimneys, I take
> > personal offense at the suggestion that the german people should
> > EVER be forgiven for what they did. 
> > 
> Give me a break!  Do you -- and your children, and grandchildren,
> and ... - take personal responsibility for what happened at My Lai?
> -- 
> Saumya Debray
 
I think we *all* have a responsibility to see that such events or similar
events *never occur again*.
 
In that vein I believe that is precisely one of the reasons that Reagan
chose Bitburg as his site to visit: besides having a Cemetery with
German soldiers (both Nazis and others) it is also one of major deployment
sites for Pershing II nuclear missiles.  As Helmut Kohl's party has an
important election in this region coming up and Kohl has been totally
supportive of the deployment of new nuclear weapons in Germany despite
widespread public opposition, Reagan wants to repay this favor.
 
While remembering the last Holocaust we should be thinking about how to
prevent the possibility of another Holocaust which would be even worse:
a nuclear war which would result in the deaths not of 6 million but
of hundreds of millions of people and possibly the destruction of the
whole human race.  Is this not genocide of an order of magnitude even 
beyond that of Hitler?
 
And what is the purpose of "reconciliation with the Germans"? To insure
that the missile deployments go as planned and also get German support
for the Start Wars program.  Reminders of the last Holocaust might not
go over too well given this aim when many Germans with conscience are
opposing new missile deployments in their country to prevent a new
and far worse Holocaust.  Many Germans who were blamed for their
neglect to do anything to prevent the Nazi Holocaust are now determined
to try to prevent a nuclear holocaust.  They do not want to be held
responsible for the massacre of millions of innocent human beings again.

The question is: remembering the results of the last Holocaust are
we going to do anything to prevent another Holocaust from nuclear war?
 
         tim sevener  whuxl!orb