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On January 27, 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, where more than 1 Million people died in the gas chambers, was liberated.
NAZI Legacy of Hate
These victims and millions more, died because of organized political hatred.
We can all disagree about politics but disagreement can never be based on hatred. More and more Political criticism today seems to focus on hatred without thought of alternatives.
We can never overlook the fact that the NAZI Party and Hitler, were elected and came to power in Germany based on hatred. Hatred was their unifying theme.
Disagreement? – That is healthy. Hatred? That is destruction.
The NAZI Anti-Semitism was well documented. Here are just a few excerpts from the Moose Jaw Times Herald telling of the persecution of the Jews by the NAZIS and the NAZI regimes of other countries such as Hungary, Romania and France.
Excerpts of stories from the old Moose Jaw Times Herald
Thursday, August 8, 1940 ‘Anti-Semitic Law in Rumania Shows Hitler Dictating’
The Rumanian cabinet promulgated a new Jewish law which was a major step in this country’s adoption of Nazis ideas. The law separates Rumania’s 750,000 Jews in three categories …
(Jews) are barred from public office, from professions “having direct liaison with the public authority,” and from operating cafes, tobacco shops, movie theatres and many other enterprises.
All Jews are prohibited from owning farms or other rural lands.
The Hungarian newspaper I’J Magyarsag editorially advocated Jewish law for Hungary, with intensified anti-Semitic measures.
Moose Jaw Times Herald, Saturday, August 10, 1940
Jews Arrested and Interned – Laws Forbid Them Doing Many Things
In placing new anti-Jewish laws into full effect, the government, apparently was influenced by the fact that the most nationalistic Rumanian elements (and) also are the most anti-Semitic.
Taking their cue from Premier Ion Gigurtu’s assertion that obedience to German-Italian wishes, while necessitating “painful sacrifices” at least would rid Rumania of “Jewish influence” the newspapers devoted many columns to anti-Jewish measures and resultant “benefits” to non-Jews.
Police arrested scores of persons yesterday on charges of spreading false news and hustled them off to concentration camps. All the prisoners were identified with the Liberal and Democratic factions, and most of them were Jews.
Moose Jaw Times Herald Saturday, August 26, 1940
Jewish Attacked in France
Paris August 21, 1940 – (delayed, via Berlin) Windows were broken and 14 persons were arrested in the Champs Elysees when a score of members marched along the wide avenue shouting, “down with the Jews.”
At the same time, a group of 70 from the same organization tried to enter offices of a youth organization on the Rue de Valois to learn the manes of its directors. Police arrested the entire group but later its members were released.
These were the first anti-Jewish demonstrations in Paris, although the newspapers have attacked Jews since the German occupation.
“We fight the Jewish ideology because we believe it is dangerous to French economy,” the paper (Les Dernieres Nouvlles de Paris) added. “We will not become associated with acts of violence menacing goods and persons.”
Berlin, August 24, 1940 – (CP via Radio) –
German dispatches from Vichy, France, claimed that stricter anti-Jewish laws – modelled on those of Nazi German – are being planned by the French government.
Moose Jaw Times Herald, Wednesday, November 25, 1942
Half the Jews of Europe to Be Murdered
Washington, November 25, 1942 – Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the World Jewish Congress, said he had learned through sources, confirmed by the State Department, that approximately half the estimated 4,000,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe have been killed in an “extermination campaign.”
The newspaper report goes on to say, “That Nazis have established a price of 50 Reichsmark for each corpse – mostly Jewish, Dr. Wise indicated – and are reclaiming bodies of slain civilians to be processed into such war-vital commodities as soap fats and fertilizer.
“Various methods are being used in the campaign,” he said, “and the Nazi doctors have found that one of the simplest and cheapest methods is to inject air bubbles into the veins of the victim.
“One Nazi physician can handle more that 100 men an hour by this method.”
