Reply #23: the munich subway line is post war

[sui generis]

don't bend the truth.

The fact of the matter is that Dachau did have an attempted uprising with the help of the town of Dachau, an uprising that ended horribly.

Just as there are holocaust deniers there are uprising deniers; there are people who rather than believe that humans couldn't possibly be so evil would as likely believe that people couldn't possibly be anything but evil.

Let's take roll call: how many of you know a holocaust survivor? a Dachau survivor? My grandfather survived Dachau - twice. My gay 14 year old uncle is still at Dachau in a relatively well known photo hanging in the museum. He did not survive the medical experiments conducted on him.

Other little known facts about the war: Germany did not have food. To get food you had to be a party member, attend rallies, send your kids to youthcamp, and have every able bodied male serving in the military. Then you got ration cards, so you could get eggs and milk and butter.

Another uncle starved to death at four when my granfather was sent to Dachau and there were no more ration cards to be had, and no more food either.

The people of Dachau were civilians, and they were starving civilians. What would America have expected anyone who "knew" to do? Hmmm?

It's a human tragedy, made more by the fact of the cost to humanity all the way around, and diminished by our myopic judgement of the woulda shoulda couldas. We weren't there. Maybe we should focus on here.