The Holocaust
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"At morning appel the SS, continually losing count and their tempers, obviously did not see anything odd about counting prisoners who could not possibly escape. The head-count ritual was maintained in all camps -- labour, concentration and even extermination -- where the population was rapidly disappearing. Just another part of the German obsession with order!"
January 21, 2024
27 mins
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As a Jew, Arendt might have been expected to evince unalloyed sympathy for the Jewish cause. But writing as a philosopher she was too analytical to be swayed by emotion -- so much so, I would argue, she failed to pay sufficient attention to the suffering of the victims
January 9, 2024
24 mins
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"The trucks kept going back and forth between the soccer ground and Bukovinka killing field until the last load went to their deaths at 11pm, at which time the aktion ceased abruptly. The last 200 to 300 people still on the soccer field were simply left behind unharmed. Murder by the clock! 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.! How German!"
December 8, 2023
17 mins
The latest
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And then, outside the Sydney Opera House, they said “Gas […]
November 29, 2023
14 mins