tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post6668695977002272082..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Jan Karski - WWII Polish Freedom Fighter & Witness to the HolocaustCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-72787824690818528102010-04-19T04:05:10.766-07:002010-04-19T04:05:10.766-07:00It will be great to watch Six Nations: France, i h...It will be great to watch Six Nations: France, i have bought tickets from<br />http://ticketfront.com/event/Six_Nations_France-tickets looking forward to it.Maroussiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08908301498320572882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-61152090626416206382010-01-01T17:45:39.414-08:002010-01-01T17:45:39.414-08:00FDR apparently didn't have much heart. What he...FDR apparently didn't have much heart. What heart he had was supplied by Eleanor.<br /><br />I hope that sometime you can visit FDR's big estate over by the Hudson about an hour from here. One of the highlights is his automobile. In spite of the polio he would drive it at amazing speeds. It had a couple of sticks, one for the brakes and one for the accelerator, and he'd use his two functioning hands to provide terror rides.<br /><br />So I'm not surprised he asked about the horses.<br /><br />It was Eleanor who was interested in universal human rights, and later did preside over the UN's universal declaration of human rights.<br /><br />This is a very weird document. It does allow the UN to stop genocides, but not of those within a country. So the Sudan can destroy its own internal population of Darfur Christians.<br /><br />But if they were doing that within another country, the UN mandate would be to make them stop, from what I can gather.<br /><br />And there are also five countries that have veto power. If any one of them says we can't go into a country, then we can't. China for instance won't let us go after Zimbabwe or the Sudan because they own the mineral rights in those countries and they don't want anybody else in those places.<br /><br />The thing about socialism is that it makes the government into a giant selfish ego, that pursues its ends without any opposition.<br /><br />Hitler inherited that from Bismark, and went to town with it, seizing the wealth of one group after another.<br /><br />The Bolsheviks did the same thing in Russia.<br /><br />Socialism ends up as a kind of Cyclopsean kleptocracy in every case in which it eclipses pluralistic govnerments.<br /><br />Hitler's hatred of Jews was based on the fact that he wanted their wealth. He stole it, and incinerated them, first carefully prying out their golden teeth.<br /><br />The same thing is being done to Christians in places like Myanmar, Vietnam (after we left they crucified the Catholics with especial vigor because they were allied with the French -- they separated them into special villages and went in and made them eat Agent Orange in front of their children).<br /><br />But I can guarantee Hollywood will never make a film on that topic, or on the Christian Karen people of Myanmar.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-13429592499848543242010-01-01T16:27:40.656-08:002010-01-01T16:27:40.656-08:00Yes,
same guy. His book "The Second World Wa...Yes,<br /><br />same guy. His book "The Second World War" outstanding, and he's written extensively on history of Jews in Europe and Jewish persecution. What a prolific chronicler and, personally, what a sweet, unassuming and always helpful individual. He was a visiting "research scholar" at a university only hours away from me.<br /><br />Your article's reignited my old interests in history. Thanks, Curtis.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-17564012029168584362010-01-01T16:10:24.211-08:002010-01-01T16:10:24.211-08:00I read somewhere in my research on Karski, his men...I read somewhere in my research on Karski, his mentioning that Roosevelt, seemingly bored by the facts of the Polish Holocaust report, inquires of Karski "What happened to those lovely Polish horses after the Germans took over?"<br /><br />Martin Gilbert was Churchill's biographer, wasn't he?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-13667151475429104882010-01-01T15:59:52.144-08:002010-01-01T15:59:52.144-08:00Curtis,
you might be interested in Martin Gilbert...Curtis,<br /><br />you might be interested in Martin Gilbert's "The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust" in which, among other interesting facts, he chronicles the relatively little a certain young Polish curate in Krakow named Karol Wojtyla did to help Poles escape Nazi deportations.<br /><br />Gilbert's chapters on Poland, Warsaw are extremely moving.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-51577411696649962010-01-01T15:44:26.653-08:002010-01-01T15:44:26.653-08:00One thing I forgot to mention was that there's...One thing I forgot to mention was that there's no translator listed in the book. I have to assume that Karski wasn't fluent enough in English to have carried off a 400 odd page book without help, but I might conceivably be wrong. Still....<br /><br />Yeah, Karski was a Catholic, he makes explicit reference to a special service given him before he left for the West. Nothing is made of any distinction between Christians and Jews in the book. I think Hitler's grudge against the Jews was racial, rather than religious, Kirby, so I'd have to say you're a little off point here. <br /><br />The Nazis weren't going after a religious sect, they were going after a whole people, religious considerations aside.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-4143005036973732732010-01-01T15:39:20.501-08:002010-01-01T15:39:20.501-08:00The Soviets have been at least as hard on Jews.
A...The Soviets have been at least as hard on Jews.<br /><br />And of course much harder on Christians.<br /><br />In the Darfur the story is the same, but this time with Christians.<br /><br />And all over Southeast Asia the story is the same.<br /><br />Forget it if you're a Christian.<br /><br />It's against the law, and the penalty is death.<br /><br />That's a story that still can't be told. <br /><br />It hasn't been told by anyone in Hollywood.<br /><br />We all know the story, but no one wants to know the story.<br /><br />It's amazing how people put their hands over their ears, and won't listen.<br /><br />I've never heard of this book before.<br /><br />Sounds like a good book. I wish you had quoted from a just a bit to get a sense of his prose style.<br /><br />One party states are very hard on anyone who refuses to knuckle under to their blandishments.<br /><br />This is why we must hold out against socialism in any form.<br /><br />Once the government has its huge apparatus in place, then all it takes is a single dictator, and the human smoke begins anew.<br /><br />Fight for pluralism of every stripe around the world!Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.com