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Speaking as someone who lost family in the Holocaust all I can say is Dov Hikind is an embarrassment to Jews everywhere. We talk so much about the need to tell the truth about Shoah- well, the truth is other groups were also targeted- gays, disabled, gypsies, catholics. What was done to Jews is a matter of scale and intensity- Hitler hated , on an unprecedented scale. No matter what he stated as his reasons- Hitler was insane. Other groups seemed to have offended his quest for the purity and perfection of the Aryan race. Catholics- I really don't know what his reasoning (although it's odd to say Hitler and reasoning in the same sentence) was. But in the end, all of these innocent people were dead.

This is from the US Holocaust Museum Site (Some place Hikind might try to visit and educate himself at one day):
"From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called "enemies of the state." Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and persons accused of "asocial" or socially deviant behavior. "

Not until 1938 were there mass arrests of Jews and in 1941, came the Final Solution. The first extermination camp gassed both Jews and Gypsies- it was in Poland.

For more information go to http://www.ushmm.org

Hikind is an idiot- After we have spent years bemoaning how Hitler singled us out for the worst horrors of recent history, now Hikind wants to use the Holocaust to show how "special" we are? That's BS!! Those markers belong in the memorial and frankly in every Holocaust Memorial. As for Hikind- interesting to note the first two letters of his last name are 2 he shares with Hitler.

Posted by: bxgrl at June 10, 2009 11:00 AM

Thanks, Arkady- i just did that. I hope he has the cojones to answer but someohow I doubt he will. I told him until he understand the Holocaust and honors everyone who was exterminated, he'll never be able to honor the 6 million Jews who also died.

I hope a lot of people write him- I'm gratified to see how many Jewish people spoke out against him, including Holocaust survivor Abraham Foxman.

Speaking of which, Have you seen Valkyrie? I watched it last night and found it fascinating. I never knew there wee 15 attempts to kill Hitler.

Posted by: bxgrl at June 10, 2009 12:05 PM