My father’s family was wiped out by the Nazis during the occupation of Crete. Several of his classmates in the 1st Elementary School of Hania were rounded up and sent to death camps.
He remembered one particular day when the entire village of Kontomari, next to his own village of Agia Marina, witnessed one of the worst massacres in all of World War II wherein the Nazi Germans rounded up every male villager and shot them by firing squad.
The entire episode was captured on camera by a German photographer, in case you’re interested in seeing the horror of this massacre in June of 1941.
My father survived that experience, but many in his family didn’t.
He came to America as a refugee after World War II to escape such evil. And this evil is now on our streets and desecrated the U.S. Capitol, openly, thanks to a man named Donald Trump.
I can only thank God that my father isn’t alive to watch these monsters come out of the cracks and bowels of our country, instigated and encouraged by the President of this country, himself.
The events of Wednesday shook me. The images I’m still seeing of these seditious criminals still bother me every time I see them on my newsfeed.
But this particular image shook me more than any other.
This wretched man walked into the United States Capitol wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie. On the back, his sweatshirt said “staff.”
I’m not stupid or naive. I don’t blame Donald Trump for racism and anti-Semitism in America. I know it’s been around as long as the first black man arrived on these shores on a slave ship and as quickly as the first Jews came here in search of freedom.
I do blame Donald Trump for this. I do, however, blame him for making it “normal” and “acceptable” and for certain people to believe that someone espousing these beliefs can be classified as “fine people” or “loved people.”
I blame him for making this kind of behavior “normal” or “acceptable.”
These people should be despised and ridiculed and put back into their caves and holes where they belong— forever.
This man was amongst the many seditious treasonous criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol. If anyone has any information about his identity or whereabouts, please send to the FBI. He belongs in jail.
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Very sorry to hear about those atrocities to your family and neighbors. Milliions were torchered and perished. Many of Trumps friends who stormed the Capitol believe that never happened. Arnold Schwarzenegger who grew up in Austria said that the recent acts of Trump and his racists, nazis, and supremists, were exactly how the Nazis began and took over his country of birth. Trump clearly has given them the courage and a wink and a nod to organize and act. Never since the days of the KKK have we seen this out so openly. If this is not stopped it will continue to grow beyonnd control. And to top it all, most of Trumps allies in Congress continued to support him. These same people were just yards away from the doors that were being taken down by the rioters carrying guns, knives and zip ties. They had a noose and were chanting “hang Pence”. Had they gotten in, how many injuries and deaths would it take to make Trump’s allies realize who and what it is they were supporting? They voted in favor of overturing a fair election and spewed lies to justify their action. Dozens of courts, and attoryneys generals found no voter fraud. When fair elections and courts didn’t change an election result, they resorted to violence to take down a building and a government. Trump watched the riots on TV and would not call the National Guard! It was Pence who had to act on that. Only days after the storming of The Capitol, his allies thought that it was the voting for impeachment that would divide the country! We should not remain complacent. Losing our Democracy, as Arnold Schwarzenegger said, is not out of the realm of possibilities.