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Originally posted by Rudey
You gotta be kidding...the hammer and sickle is comparable to a swastika??
Hey Chuck, so tell me where your interests are because I want to understand what it is that moves you to educate others on what the swastika used to mean. Please tell me about it.
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Before ANYONE gets ANY ideas twisted in their minds that I am a closet brown-shirted-goose-stepping-Nazi-lover, let me set a couple of things straight:
One of my interests is reading about history, specifically World War II and the Third Reich. What Adolf Hitler and his Nazis did to the world at large during World War II, especially to the Jews and anyone not meeting the 'Aryan' standard is a horrifying example of man's inhumanity to man.
Never again should we sit complacently and watch someone impose his twisted will upon any country again. 'Know thine enemy' should be the watchword everyone should remember.
If German racial laws of the time applied to me, I wouldn't qualify as an 'Aryan', I'd be considered a 'bastard'. My membership in the Masonic Fraternity would have been enough to have been taken in for 'questioning' by the Gestapo. If I were a prominent Freemason (say, a Grand Lodge officer), it would have been a one-way trip to a concentration camp.
I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Miami, where it was common to see older people wearing concentration camp ID tattoos on their forearms. I've listened to first-hand experiences of concentration camp survivors; when I hear pathetic examples of 'revisionist' history claiming the Holocaust is a fabrication, my blood boils.