"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"

Adolf Hitler - January 30, 1939

I grew up learning about the Holocaust. The pictures of the horrors that happened will haunt me forever. While Jews were the primary target there were many others who suffered the same fate. My father said that I am shown these horrors so that we remember and it does not happen again (to anyone). Sadly enough it has happened over and over. I wonder if we will ever learn from the mistakes of hatred unchecked.

You don't have to be Jewish to learn from this lesson... just human. Take a moment and look at the Holocaust Timeline. Take care when calling someone 'the enemy' until you understand the reasons behind it.

Shalom

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*hugs* miss you baby. Excellent post! v'Chag Sameach! Happy Channukah!

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