My father served in WWII, after being wounded he was captured by the Germans and was interred in a slave labor camp. My dad wrote a book about what he experienced at the hands of the Germans[1]. His revelations and recollections have given me insight into how America is being transformed before our very eyes.
“As a young, naïve American soldier ,I did not expect nor
did I have any reason to believe that a civilized society, even under the Nazi
government ,could be guilty of such brutality and still maintain the support of
the German people. Now I believe that, with very few exceptions, the German
people did know what was going on in the concentration camps and in the death and
slave labor camps.”
“This writing and my personal experience are also a reminder
of what can happen when a society loses a free press, becomes too passive or indifferent
to excessive propaganda by unscrupulous politicians, and when its citizens fail
to exercise their privilege of voting in a democratic society. Such as was the
case in Germany, which allowed Hitler and his followers to take control of the
country. As a world power and a free nation, in conjunction with the United
Nations, America cannot let this happen again anywhere in the world.”
[1]
Muschell, J. E. 2005. From Bloody Herrlisheim to a Slave Labor Camp. United
Associates, Cheboygan, MI., 151 pp.
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