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Seventy Years Ago Today The European Phase Of World War II Started

In these days where the word Nazi is being used as a political tool to describe “offenses” that don’t even come close to approaching the crimes committed, and when idiot Americans are offering the “Heil Hitler” salute to an elderly Jewish man who disagrees with their politics, we need to remember history.

World War II didn’t start with the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, but it was a turning point. The crimes against humanity executed by the Nazis of Germany, the Fascists of Italy, and the Imperialists of Japan started long before that date, and the effects resonate down to the present.

It was said at the time, “Never forget!” Unfortunately, as evidenced by recent behavior, we have forgotten. It is past time for all good citizens to denounce the behaviors of those childish enough to use the word “Nazi” and behave boorishly, shouting down those who do not agree with them.


Cross-posted between Random Fate and The Moderate Voice.

  • Father_Time
    I agree with you Mr. Grant. Ugly American idiocy seems to permeate the population of the United States.
  • EXACTLY!!! i've been trying to educate folks on message boards across the Internet that you can't throw the nazi card every time you disagree with somebody...unless the current gov't administration is casting thousands to their deaths and buring the evidence, then there is no justification for it...in fact, i consider it a slight against the 11 million who died in the holocaust at the hands of the REAL nazis and those who survived it...thank you for your post

    i am doing my part to further education about the holocaust on my new blog Never Again! at http://holokauston.wordpress.com
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