I’m guessing, from what he told me, that my father, a sergeant in the Eleventh Armored Division of General Patton’s Third Army, passed through this very same gate within a few minutes (at most) of this public domain photograph. (I’ve looked very carefully at it on previous occasions to see whether he’s actually in it, but haven’t found him.) What he saw there powerfully affected him for the rest of his life, and he told me about it on many occasions, imploring me never, ever, to forget what he was describing. I never have. I’ve visited the camp a number of times for that very reason. I regard remembering what happened at Mauthausen as a sacred duty both to my father and to the victims there. For that and other reasons, I cannot allow the echoes of National Socialism that I’ve seen in and about the Trumpist movement for the past year pass without comment and without protest. Never forget. Never ever forget.
http://www.rac.org/reform-jewish-leader-responds-donald-trumps-remarks
Yesterday, when Mr. Trump told his audience at a rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, that “Clinton meets in secret with international banks in order to plot the destruction of US sovereignty,” I was forcibly and disturbingly reminded of this sort of thing: http://smoloko.com/?p=3452.
Posted from Cedar City, Utah
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