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'My 17 Years as an Unauthorized Jew' (The Good, section 1 part 3: Father)

My parents had a strange argument when I was around 5 - 6 years old. Views about Adolph Hitler in our town ranged from one extreme to the other and there were very few taboos about exchanging opinions on the man. My father's argument with my mother was that "Hitler did a lot of bad things, but he did some good things too." I remember my mother verbally smashing him down with something along the lines of:

"Gordon...if we were living in Nazi Germany you wouldn't have me...Is that what you want? I'm a twin and you know what they did to twins."

My father's usual retort was "Oh...Lorene...". but I think he answered with something like, "all I'm saying..."

My mother would keep after him and want him to answer whether he wanted to lose his wife or not under the circumstances of having Hitler in power. This was a short lived argument, and I can't remember my father bringing the subject up again after that day.

He never talked about the disastrous events of history, and if our family watched a special television program about some war or atrocity all he would express was his feeling that those kinds of things should never happen.

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Much of the medical knowledge we have today comes from Hitlers experiments.

Long time ago I watched an episode of Star trek Voyager. They decided not to use medical knowledge discovered thru tactics like Hitlers to save lives. Our world is not so noble. (or stupid, whichever you prefer)

Posted by Dawn @ 03:13:2006:02:40 PM CST

There is one bit of medical knowlege the Nazi tactics discovered that I wish the world would apply. According to their experiments casterating sexual predators would stop the behavior, and I completely fail to understand why this isn't being done now. I think stopping these guys with a small operation is worth doing... Just my opinion.

Posted by Stan @ 03:13:2006:08:17 PM CST

Couldn't agree more with that, Stan.

Posted by Ann @ 03:13:2006:08:19 PM CST

I don't think cruel and unusual should apply to child molestors.

Cut 'em!

Posted by Dawn @ 03:13:2006:08:35 PM CST

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