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I was a hairdresser in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood. It happened to be the home of many European Jews. My clientele was 80% Jewish immigrants, many wore the tattoos of the camps they had survived. Some talked about it, some didn& #39;t. I was always willing to listen.
The horror stories kept me awake some nights and my admiration grew for their strength and audacity. You didn& #39;t survive something that horrible if you didn& #39;t possess some audacity. They made me promise to carry their stories with me because they didn& #39;t want anyone to forget.
I promised I would. I& #39;ve kept that promise. The Holocaust didn& #39;t happen overnight. It was years of sowing seeds of doubts into their minds. The German citizens gradually distanced themselves and then completely removed themselves from reality. Survival, I guess they called it.
Germans citizens were fed horror stories, false statements and most of all fear. They feared what they did not understand and eventually passed the fear and hatred down to their children. Today leaders call it Fake News back then it was called propaganda.
Because of that blind fear, 6 million Jews were killed for no reason other than one mentally unstable man& #39;s fear and mistrust. I did not have one customer who didn& #39;t lose at least one family member, most lost their entire families.
Not only Jews were slaughtered, but so were Catholics, homosexuals, people with severe handicaps, feeble-minded, and also people who tried to protect the weak and vulnerable. 11 million European souls, lost their lives in the most insidious manners imaginable.
I also had non-Jewish European customers. One lady told me about how her hometown was constantly covered in the ashes from the nearby Bergen Belsen death camp. She spent most of her childhood knowing the smell of burning human flesh. She still smelled it.
She asked her parents about it and was told never ever mention it. Just ignore it. They feared if she asked the wrong person, that she and they would be taken away too. She always wore a handkerchief around her mouth and nose on the way to school to avoid breathing in the ashes.
So those red-hated hate-mongering POS out there yelling and hollering and cheering for that fat orange jackass who lies as easily as we take in oxygen... is a dangerous man. Me, I& #39;m just honoring my promise and never letting anyone forget what blind hate can do.
Y& #39;all be nice to one another and make it a point to know the truth. Because we cannot survive the way things are going right now.
Peace.
Peace.
