April 23, 2009
“On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, and on the day when Ahmadinejad can stand up in Geneva at a UN conference on racism and be given an international podium to lash out his hate against Israel and America, I feel it is important to send you 4 letters written by a 20-year-old German girl to a penpal, my mother, in New Zealand, between the years 1933 and 1936. She did not know that my mother was Jewish, thus we have a rare opportunity to see the reaction of the "ordinary "German to the rise of Hitler. I have made bold these parts in blue, and you can see how the mundane chit chat of a young girl becomes more and more entwined with the overtones of the Nazi doctrines. The change in tone over the years in the German woman’s letters is telling and chilling as she describes her adoration and support of Hitler."(h/t discarded lies)
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My step-mother's parents were German. I think they came after the war but I'm not sure, I know she was born here but her parents were born in Germany, probably around the turn of the century.
I got into a conversation with her mother once where it turned to the Jews (she must have steered it that way, I don't usually worry about Teh Joooooos!).
Man oh man was it ugly. It was so ugly that I actually thought she was joking. I'm talking Purim pastries are made out of Christian children's blood ugly. I started to laugh and realized, "Oh, you're serious."
It was the first time I ever came up against someone who could think and speak such ugly thoughts and yet still look so normal.
It wasn't pretty.
Posted by: Veeshir at April 23, 2009 10:54 AM (zXUuJ)
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