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Thread #73684   Message #1280594
Posted By: Strollin' Johnny
25-Sep-04 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hitler's normal voice
Subject: RE: BS: Hitler's normal voice
Bill H - pretending Hitler didn't exist (which is what your suggestion that we shouldn't remember or discuss him means) is a gross insult to those millions of soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians who gave their lives fighting his regime, and those millions of Jews, Romanies, Homosexuals and innocent members of other minority groups who were the victims of his regime. You don't defeat villainy by burying your head in the sand, you defeat it by always keeping it in mind and working hard to prevent it happening again.

I'd guess you're a US resident. If not, I apologise for preaching to you. But if so, maybe you should arrange to come over here during November and take a look around the 'American Cemetery' at Cambridge with its thousands upon thousands of war-graves of US servicemen, tour the old now-disused USAF bomber bases and have a walk around some of the churchyards in the villages close by, and see clusters of gravestones of your countrymen. You should also witness the annual Remembrance Festivals and services that take place in towns and villages all over the UK, and culminating in the 'big ones' of the Albert Hall and the Cenotaph, and check out the way the people of the UK, most of whom weren't even alive during WW2 let alone WW1, watch the TV coverage in their millions. Then see if you still believe we should pretend that bastard never existed.