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You are way out of track guys...
author: AMR
Well CT you have said a lot without saying actually anything.
You are attributing opinions to me that has never expressed by me. I am daring you to brows through the hundreds of responses and article published by me in Indymedia and available for anybody by a few clicks of the mouse and find even ONE (ONE) sentence that is claiming “Us versus them” by me as you have claimed.
It never said by me and never crossed my mind; to me it seems that it crossed YOUR mind, but definitely not mine.
The questionable and to some extent confusing explanation to the Holocaust expressed and brought by me about two months ago in an article that bring a testimony of a senior psychologist named Moley Harrower published in the Psychology-Today on 1976.
Mrs. Harrower was a senior psychologist that assigned on the team of alike during 1945-1946 preparation towards Nuremburg Nazi executives’ trials.
The psychologist team went through many tests (Rorchach and others) done with the Nazi executives trying to asses the notion that the Nazi leadership were in fact a bench of psychotic people and that could explain their unimaginable crimes against humanity.
The psychological team never published its findings… each one of the team’s members found all sort of excuses not to publish an official document of those event ( Mrs, Harrower included, by her own account) and that how it stayed for the next twenty years (it never brought publicly during the trials either).
It her 1976 article Mrs. Harrower revealed at last the reason for.
…And here are the shocking findings….
All the psychological tests found a NORMAL bunch of people, nothing that is outside of usual human deviation and conduct. The team could not find any ‘out of the ordinary’ person, nobody that could be said about that he is a monster or a blood thirsty animal, NADA, NOTHING….Just a bunch of Normal, ordinary people.
Those finding were so shocking that the trial team and the psychological team has decided to archive the finding and not publishing them ever.
Eventually Mrs. Harrower broke the silence 20 years later.
She is concluding in her article:…
…”It may be comforting to believe that the horrors of WWII were the work of a dozen or so insane men, but it is a dangerous belief, one that may give us a false sense of security….IT CAN HAPPEN HERE” (She meant USA…AMR’s addition).
The article conclusion can be found in the book “Can it happen again? – A chronicle of the Holocaust”, published in 2001 and is a gathering of many accounts of the most world’s prominents like : Robert Ardrey, Lucy Dawidowicz, Anne Frank, Aldus Huxley, Thomas Keneally, Primo Levi, George Orwell, Wiliam L. Shirer, B.F. Skiller, Albert Speer, Art Spiegelman, Elie Wiesel, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and many others.
The book’s conclusion is YES, it can happen again.
And as I have observed long time ago…. if it can happen again it most likely will happen again it is only a matter of timing and the right circumstances that should occur.
We are all, Yes CT and Dave, you included as all of us, are the product of our nature heritage, human are the impossible combination of angles and bloody beast all in the same one body….
It is not for nothing that I am posting the following phrase time and again…”When you are pointing your finger at the other, watch what your thumb is aiming at…at yourself.
It can happen again and we should not rest assured that in our time, the 21st century it is out of the possible. Sooner or later it will happen again in one of the world’s continents, we only have to ask ourselves WHEN and WHER!
When I am talking about Anti-Semitism I am doing that from the fear it will happen again… For me it is a wider context issue, racism, generalization and prejudice that is leading to Genocide acts all across the glob time and again, like the Jewish Holocaust never happen, like people never learned the terrible lesson!
We the human species are our worst enemies. If something could destroy us it will be most likely by our wrong “Human” act.