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canetoad

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3. I'm extremely ambivalent

Reply to 3catwoman3 (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 04:54 PM

Nov 29

About attempts to censor, warn, clean up or otherwise protect people from the very real horrors of WW2. I saw the images of Belsen when I was around eight or nine years old. Everyone did - child and adult alike in the UK in the 50s. It was part of growing up and understanding the very near past.

I'm reminded of the citizens of Weimar being taken to view Buchenwald when the fighting stopped. On the way there they were cheerful and resolute. Then they started fainting and vomiting when they saw the real situation.

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The Last Jew in Vinnitsa (possible triggering photo). [View all] marble falls Nov 29 OP

This really needed some sort of warning! 3catwoman3 Nov 29 #1

My apologies. We are in times where there are fellow citizens of ours would welcome doing this us and ours. marble falls Nov 29 #2

I'm extremely ambivalent canetoad Nov 29 #3

Seeing films of the executions of Jewish families and the liberation of Buchwald at 13 definitely has shaped ... marble falls Nov 29 #4

It's interesting canetoad Nov 29 #7

One could do well in life just holding those values. marble falls Nov 29 #11

Thank you for posting this ... Raine Nov 29 #5

We dare not forget or let it be forgotten. marble falls Nov 29 #6

Lessons for today... Arazi Nov 29 #8

"I'm a good soldier, I follow orders like a good soldier." marble falls Nov 29 #9

Soooo many lessons applicable for today... 😞 Arazi Nov 29 #10

Regrettably so. marble falls Nov 29 #13

Recently --- Pete Hegseth::: 'Kill them all'. Norrrm Nov 29 #12

And we may well be on the list. marble falls Nov 29 #14

Most certainly we are. PCIntern Nov 29 #15

If it comes to it, and it's a fight they want, a fight they'll get. marble falls Nov 29 #16

rightwingers expressed horror over Syrians immigrating to Germany as if Syrians were monsters and Germans were angelic BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 30 #17

History repeats what time denies and forgets. marble falls Nov 30 #18

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