From: Ruth I. Gordon <Druthgo>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:15:47 -0700

"In regard to this, I would like to suggest an adult read, as I have privately to several people: Christopher Browning's _Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland_, as an example in how average people can be brought to do terrible things."

If I remember correctly, Browning also found that those who objected to the killing and the treatment of victims, were not punished by the Reich and were sent back to non S.S. areas. This is an important question since it should force us to ask why didn't more members of the Wehrmacht object?

And why did governments that knew about the concentration camps
(certainly our own among them) do anything to stop the atrocities? The U.S. excuse for not bombing rail lines is classic in its protection of industries, some of which had U.S. financial interests involved.

Here's a sweet fact to mention when teaching about the Holocaust: Jewish citizens of Salonika, Greece, were forced to pay rail fare for their removal to "out-with" and other "camps." I am sure Jewish communities elsewhere were also forced to pay for rail transport to their deaths.

Big Grandma
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 03:15:47 PM CDT