tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48006931382617278112024-03-14T00:19:51.840-07:00Conflict 2 - Nazi Germanyneil2445http://www.blogger.com/profile/08054182680050832385noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4800693138261727811.post-41082918924809108112011-01-13T05:00:00.003-08:002011-01-27T07:26:55.916-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulbwSYeqxcHKRiseTbgJeIXi-0D5bSechBaYA7mVH2sFeKOMsK86So5KkL8CA9vy5uDgtAnNrjRzXveaf82Ql9eYRaij6eazFJtuvrl2Duod5CW7d-OBTUpmUoWuZTo9GK3EvYjXcVTw/s1600/Germany+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulbwSYeqxcHKRiseTbgJeIXi-0D5bSechBaYA7mVH2sFeKOMsK86So5KkL8CA9vy5uDgtAnNrjRzXveaf82Ql9eYRaij6eazFJtuvrl2Duod5CW7d-OBTUpmUoWuZTo9GK3EvYjXcVTw/s320/Germany+one.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">Using the compulsory education system to spoon-feed state ideology to the masses is one way of controlling them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for those who don’t swallow the official line – or simply don’t ‘fit’ - there are other industrial methods for inducing timid conformity…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘Words<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>build bridges into unexplored regions.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Adolf Hitler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Nazi leader delivered his <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42i-bL5bZuE"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Nuremberg</place></city><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">speeches from the rostrum, right:</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘I believe it is ‘peace for our time.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkS7k3hkKpoF9Q6P2jp5o8776al_Z9_M9mH9MrQ84_6AefjGStemSZtGwt_dY2udaWPVFkWtHKm8cdFf49QNXHRuac0Xll8o_VOLktSv6Zi0k1ylFRSzgFuDn59DIENfxBQIF_pEnTvM/s1600/Germany+2+Kuhberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkS7k3hkKpoF9Q6P2jp5o8776al_Z9_M9mH9MrQ84_6AefjGStemSZtGwt_dY2udaWPVFkWtHKm8cdFf49QNXHRuac0Xll8o_VOLktSv6Zi0k1ylFRSzgFuDn59DIENfxBQIF_pEnTvM/s320/Germany+2+Kuhberg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skvw5BqTEO0"><span style="color: orange;">speaking</span></a> on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street, after his arrival home from the Munich Conference, September 30, 1938</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">Picture: Oberer Kuhberg, a Napoleonic fortress near <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Ulm</place></city>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Nazis took over <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country-region> in 1933 they swiftly pressed such places into being as impromptu prisons, incarcerating their biggest political enemies of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">But their sights soon widened…</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYU1nkFqp_uT-F0RkKdXKsxk-icBNuZTM733d1TN1R193DlC2HknHLTbeva9gjLFtLg4Z1Mf3X6dIq_K1tVQATHPYjPxHUHRJ3mwrS_ViizBoE3sqACMd3Kf8atzgnV9uBMwrbMfYaZfk/s1600/Germany+3+footings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYU1nkFqp_uT-F0RkKdXKsxk-icBNuZTM733d1TN1R193DlC2HknHLTbeva9gjLFtLg4Z1Mf3X6dIq_K1tVQATHPYjPxHUHRJ3mwrS_ViizBoE3sqACMd3Kf8atzgnV9uBMwrbMfYaZfk/s320/Germany+3+footings.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">Behind this aerial photograph displayed at KZ Dachau (<city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dachau</place></city> concentration camp) are the concrete foundations of the barrack blocks where the prisoners were housed.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opened in March 1933, <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dachau</place></city> was the first Nazi concentration camp<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white;">‘I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to… a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67P4r7kCEzw&feature=related"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">total</span> </a>solution of the Jewish question in those territories of <place w:st="on">Europe</place> which are under German influence.’</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white; font-size: 14pt;">Marshal Hermann Goering to Chief of the German Security Forces SS Gruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich, July 31, 1941 </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.<br />
.</span><span style="color: white;">‘</span><span style="color: white;">First they came for the Communists,<br />
And I did not speak out,<br />
Because I was not a Communist.<br />
Then they came for the trade unionists,<br />
And I did not speak out,<br />
Because I was not a trade unionist.<br />
Then they came for the Jews,<br />
And I did not speak out,<br />
Because I was not a Jew.<br />
Then they came for me<br />
And there was no one left<br />
To speak out for me.’</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span><span style="color: white;">Pastor Martin Niemöller, who was imprisoned here</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘The depravity of their (Jewish) race is evident in their horrible faces.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Nazi newspaper <i>Der Sturmer</i>, issue 22, 1938. Proprietor: Julius <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUW7s2qISk&feature=related"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Streicher</span> </a>(1885-1946)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKzx6Rg-gxJvkfIjddYxwGpWy-amJXSCWUl8LYEXbHyH8Ss-iaJu57T2uYX8DPRsx7Z9_91VjuMR-Hdm53YunJVY3TcJEcO-0QLyfHYPW2ooZk4DNopsMUwshqEJsAI759gjjHHHp-wA/s1600/Germany+4+beds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKzx6Rg-gxJvkfIjddYxwGpWy-amJXSCWUl8LYEXbHyH8Ss-iaJu57T2uYX8DPRsx7Z9_91VjuMR-Hdm53YunJVY3TcJEcO-0QLyfHYPW2ooZk4DNopsMUwshqEJsAI759gjjHHHp-wA/s320/Germany+4+beds.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dream to dust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never.’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">Elie Wiesel, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSWgbZRULWM"><span style="color: orange;">Night</span></a></i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘…So does the mother explain the various mushrooms to her child.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But then both pick up their baskets and slowly set off for home.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Underway, the mother says:</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Look, Franz, precisely as it is among the mushrooms in the forest, so is it among people on earth. There are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, hence bad, mushrooms, and there are bad people. And one must watch out for these bad people just like one must watch out for poisonous mushrooms. Do you understand that?’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Yes, mother, I understand that’, says Franz, ‘if one gets involved with bad people, that can result in misfortune, like if one eats a poisonous mushroom. One can perish from it!’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘And do you also know who these bad people, these poisonous mushrooms of mankind, are?’ the mother asks as well.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Franz proudly beats his chest.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: white;">‘Yes, mother! I know that. They are the Jews. Our teacher has already often said that in school.’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laughing, the mother pats her Franz on the shoulder…’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom), </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1938, now translated into English and produced by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>US Nazi leader Gary Lauck</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKoWIqnA24eLALmhnTd4AMZuwZZu3-GDqec5FYn2oxA4Lp46xXw3vnL1HZuUIY4VHMM0QPmWBiV9f5s-dkc7T9UsevQKTxgIZLxhBxPmy9-CW7H-8D-hk3EbZznKJttNSCLdkFeJhc0/s1600/Germany+5+krem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AKoWIqnA24eLALmhnTd4AMZuwZZu3-GDqec5FYn2oxA4Lp46xXw3vnL1HZuUIY4VHMM0QPmWBiV9f5s-dkc7T9UsevQKTxgIZLxhBxPmy9-CW7H-8D-hk3EbZznKJttNSCLdkFeJhc0/s320/Germany+5+krem.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘Julius Streicher spoke simply and directly in the language of the people. Everyone (at his 1935 <state w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Berlin</place></state> speech) understood him, for he used the simplest, crystal clear language.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Der Angriff, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">August 16, 1935</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘The Hungarians waited patiently in line, not imagining that ashes might be all that remained of their families and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They thought that they were going for a shower and a medical check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were so many of them that the gas chambers could not make room for them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crematoria were overloaded, and the SS had big pits dug, where people stunned by gas were burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The giant flames lit up the night sky of Auschwitz, a dreadful smell of burnt flesh filled the air, and suddenly screams of horror, children’s screams, rose from the crowd.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">An account by Luciana Nissim,<i></i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Ricordi della casa dei morti</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">(Memories from the</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">House of the Dead)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New';"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘I find no solution </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">to the riddle.’</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Primo <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIDgjeaJM_I"><span style="color: orange;">Levi</span> </a>(1919 - 1987)</span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPmybNvcHblrKDo3PyjE43Kftigzsf0Gvuyc8YXpMvbaQUfPJKamhcjRtLpH-4zTuTfJEbBCZ3Hed7bkb_K82-HiWbi33q2bhexU307ObHhAi62V-x2YWFFaRS_rT1L3OnBQyaVhLf6M/s1600/Germany+6+oven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPmybNvcHblrKDo3PyjE43Kftigzsf0Gvuyc8YXpMvbaQUfPJKamhcjRtLpH-4zTuTfJEbBCZ3Hed7bkb_K82-HiWbi33q2bhexU307ObHhAi62V-x2YWFFaRS_rT1L3OnBQyaVhLf6M/s320/Germany+6+oven.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘Now I know <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BEfd3dNTvE&feature=related"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">why</span> </a>I am here.’</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Major Richard Winters (depicted in</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Steven Spielberg’s <i>Band of Brothers</i>), former commanding officer of Easy Company,</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">506 Parachute Infantry Regiment,</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">101st Airborne Division, US Army,</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the discovery of a <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Dachau</place></city> sub-camp.</span></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">‘I said the world must be made safe</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for at least fifty years.</span></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">If it was only for fifteen to twenty years</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">then we should have betrayed our soldiers.’</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill</span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;">(1874 - 1965)<em>,</em> <em>Closing the Ring </em></span></span></span><br />
<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></em></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydCt9wiFTlK3ljIzrkV03lMuy2OClmaAsbNcTeVnTnwoiyNhtxL_Ty2zU44SpKypQcWEoOSofWUNBAYQc6aUkBZbWsQdFwWrGkY9thfFNkmoz2H0a0FjdewFUYHdgP3onxlvv9dsEvtw/s1600/last+dawn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiydCt9wiFTlK3ljIzrkV03lMuy2OClmaAsbNcTeVnTnwoiyNhtxL_Ty2zU44SpKypQcWEoOSofWUNBAYQc6aUkBZbWsQdFwWrGkY9thfFNkmoz2H0a0FjdewFUYHdgP3onxlvv9dsEvtw/s320/last+dawn.jpg" width="203" /></a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">‘</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The United Nations Organisation must immediately begin to be equipped with an international armed force…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one’s land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control on the thoughts of men; if all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own (US) in fraternal association, the highroads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.’</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: white; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Winston Churchill, from his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvax5VUvjWQ"><span style="color: orange;">address</span> </a><i>Sinews of Peace</i> delivered in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Fulton</city>, <state w:st="on">Missouri</state></place> on March 5, 1946.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was during this speech that the phrase <i>Iron Curtain</i> was first used.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://conflictbosnia.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: orange;">Forward</span> </a><span style="color: white;">to Bosnia</span></span></div>neil2445http://www.blogger.com/profile/08054182680050832385noreply@blogger.com0