#holocust

[captain-price-unofficially]

Grigory Berman finds the bodies of his wife and children, murdered by Einsatzgruppe D. Crimea, January 1942.

[the-lady-maddy]

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[hithisiszooz]

isnotreal is killing palestinians and kicking them out and destroying every ounce of their culture until theres nothing left but a memory

i dont want palestine to be just a memory

[jewishdainix]

Yup you can indeed see this is based on something polish

[thewebcomicsreview]

As per the ask you got in may .What did tatsuya ishida say about the Holocaust ?Or draw ?im high right now

I can't really do a day-to-day on Sinfest even if I wanted to because it's increasingly just racist caricatures that'd get be banned for posting them, even to mock, but to quickly summarize where it's at since you asked politely and are in the right headspace to receive this information.

Tatsuya Ishida now worships Odin. Like, unironically he has a whole arc about how the Jews overthrew the Norse gods, who are the true gods, in order to impose monotheism on the world. I don't have as much knowledge on the inner workings of neo-nazis as I probably should be (there's a sentence for 2024, isn't it?), but they're super into all this Norse shit, which is why a lot of white supremacists like to use Norse symbols, like the Valknot, a set of three interlocking triangles.

That one, yeah.

(Not to be confused with the Triquetra that's' all over Jill's design in LoTH, which is also an old rune but mostly is just used as design shorthand for "Celtic" and hasn't been appropriated by Nazis because it doesn't have enough sharp angles for their sensibilities, but that is a Celtic cross in panel 3 up there to remind me there's a non-trivial chance I have to take LotH down one day over this. Sigh.)

Anyway, the year 2024 is burned as a witch, which stops time, which revives her as a Valkyrie because Odin is the true god and thus timeless. You may have noticed that doesn't make any fucking sense, but we are long since past the point where that matters. So, 2024 is fighting YHWH now.

No no, not the puppet guy that's been god this whole time! That's old Sinfest, which has no connection to modern Sinfest any more. God has been redesigned to be a racist stereotype stuck to a wall

I probably don't need to blur this but I'm not taking chances. Anyway this strip is important because it's Tatsuya Ishida explicitly calling for violence against Jewish people and saying it's justified because Jews are behind everything bad that has ever happened (earlier strips literally have the Happy Merchant appear and say that Jews are behind black people, communism, the gays, school shootings, and "assassinations". Basically everything Tats doesn't like is because of those wacky Jews, keeping themselves busy).

And one of YHWH's attacks is summoning "holocusts" and...yeah. Tats thinks the holocaust didn't happen, but that it should happen, and is at the point of saying so explicitly. We haven't seen a swastika yet, but we're at the point where it wouldn't even matter if we did. Tatsuya Ishida is a White Supremacist Neopagan worshiper of Odin who wants to kill all Jewish people. That's not an accusation I'm making, Tats says it himself.

[corvidexoskeleton]

Get deleted, idiot

Girl help there are people in my ask box misinterpreting what I've said and are extrapolating off stuff I didn't say

[onlyhurtforaminute]

TOXIC HOLOCUST-MKULTRA

[captain-price-unofficially]

The Croatian Ustase was a fascist and ultranationalist organization that perpetrated the Holocaust and held up the Nazi regime in occupied Yugoslavia. Extremely brutal even for Nazi standards, the Ustaše went on to perpetrate the Holocaust and genocide against its Jewish, Serb and Roma populations, killing hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, as well as Muslim and Croat political dissidents.

[imagine-fight-write]

Please stop adding more hate.

I support your rallying against antisemitism, but there is no need to mix that with unfair & vicious bashing of Christians.

Dear Fdelopera, asking for ending hate against 1 religious group while pushing for us to hate another does no good to anyone & only spreads more hate.

Antisemitism makes me sick, but adding more hate to a different group for wrongs of the past when they've clearly changed just - does no good.

Spreads more poison.

Also, you need to recheck your history, at least as far as WW2 goes.

I'll talk about that, then the Crusades, then some other comments.

1st, the way you explain it, someone could get the false impression that America & especially Christians were the only ones who stood by & did nothing, or never did anything, when they did, in fact, do a lot of good in WW2 & the Holocaust & after.

A lot of countries reacted poorly at first when Germany started invading Poland. And the U.S. wasn't the superpower it is today, just fyi.

To make a blanket statement that all American Christians, esp. politicians, did *nothing* to help the Jews is an obvious overstatement.

Also you seen to think all politicans were Christians, which I doubt is true. Also, it's highly likely some were hypocrites who didn't follow Christian doctrine. Just food for thought.

The truth is more complex, because Christians as a group, even purely in America, are very diverse. Christianity is a *worldwide* religion.

Yes, some were antisemitic. But some were not. And those who weren't did a lot of good.

Also note, neither group were the ones *actively killing* Jews & other minorities. That was the Nazis, who were either not religious or, at best, had a secret cult religion. Also used scientific biased evidence as an excuse for their atrocities. And nationalism.

And you're ignoring the European Christians who were very active in helping the Jews & stopping the autrosities, both during & after the war.

Just look at Corri Ten Boon, author of The Hiding Place, & everything she did after. Look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died because he spoke out against the Nazis.

Check out Irene Sendler: Life in a Jar, a Polish Catholic who rescued 2 500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Check out her story & others @

www.lowellmilkencenter.org

She's also found at the United States Holocust Memorial Museum website & The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous @ jfr.org

Also check out "Defying the Devil: Christian Clergy Who Saved Jews from the Holocaust" on the Kupfweberg Holocaust Center website.

Also implying that Christians today are the only ones telling Jews to "go back" is inaccurate. I doubt people who say that want the Holocaust to happen again, & if they do, they're hypocrites & monsters.

As for the Crusades -

Yes, it's a shameful part of Christian history, of Christians being obvious hypocrites & not acting like Christ. And Christians should acknowledge that & often do.

But to talk about it as if Christians were the only wrong doers isn't correct.

The Crusades were a series of wars. Messy, bloody, horrific wars fought for stupid reasons. Wars lasting almost the entire Middle Ages /Medieval Period.

Like all wars, atrocities & killings & horrible things were done on both sides. To say Christians were the bad ones & everyone else the mere victims isn't correct.

Even in WW2, those who opposed the Nazis, especially soldiers, often did horrible things too beyond killing other soldiers.

To be clear, yes, Christians should be ashamed of their part in ithe Crusades, and ashamed of those hypocritical in WW2 who ignored the Jewish plight.

But it's also crucial to note most Christians today are appalled by the Holocaust & support Israel & the Jewish people.

Finally, because someone will probably bring it up, note also the Inquisition also has a lot of myths & exaggerations.

As Britannica.com notes,

"All of the institutional inquisitions worked in secrecy, except for closely regulated public appearances. Their secrecy permitted those who opposed them to speculate about and often fictionalize dramatically their secret activities, producing many of the myths about inquisitions that are found in European literature from the 16th century to the present."

Yes, people were tortured & their were forced conversions & confessions. There were also Christians opposed to it & people who were fair & trying to honestly root out hypocrisy.

So yes, please check your history. Be careful of what you say, especially about whole groups of people you hate for stuff their groups committed in the past.

Always ask who your sources are. And if they're using their words to spread more hate.

No one is blameless, but all should be judged critically, with the knowledge that people often do horrible things out of ignorance & fear.

Don't be one of them.

Jew here with a friendly reminder that:

Criticizing Isreal ≠ antisemetic

Supporting Palestine ≠ antisemitic

Believing in the Free Palestine cause ≠ antisemitic

BUT ALSO

A random ass Jew just living their life oceans away has nothing to do with the Isreal-Palestine conflict

Palestinian Jews exist

Jews that support Palestine exist (I am one of them)

Calling out ACTUAL antisemitism ≠ supporting Isreal

[the-lady-maddy]

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Day 146: Auschwitz

"For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity." Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1940–1945

This was, without question, the most horrifying, unsettling, and emotionally devastating thing we did on our trip. It was also probably the most important.

We arrived at Auschwitz as part of a big-bus tour group and met our guide. She took us directly into the camp, passing under the iconic sign which, translated, means “work will set you free.”

During the Nazi occupation, prisoners were kept in a row of barracks behind barbed wire. My first reaction was surprise at how nice the barracks looked from the outside. The reason is that Auschwitz (or "Oswiecim," in Polish) was originally a Polish military base meant to house Polish soldiers. When the Germans invaded Poland, they needed someplace to store thousands of Polish military and political prisoners. Existing Polish military bases were an obvious and practical solution. All that needed to be done was to add a barbed wire fence and reorient the defenses to face inward instead of outward.

It was later that it became a permanent camp for Jews. It was the perfect location--a rail hub right in the middle of the Nazi concentration camp system.

We saw a copy of a Nazi poster encouraging the Jewish population of Cologne to report for relocation to a new settlement where they would be allowed to live in peace.

But as decent as the barracks seem from the outside, it is a thin veneer covering a dark core. We saw the insides of several barracks. Most were converted into various exhibits, but we also saw the conditions that the Jews and other prisoners were made to live in–both at the beginning of the camp’s history and at its brutal end.

We saw a barrack filled with items confiscated from the Jewish prisoners. Ever economical, the Nazis kept everything they took from their prisoners with the intention of reusing it. There are whole rooms filled with eyeglasses, hairbrushes, luggage, and even prosthetic limbs.

And countless piles of shoes.

But the room that affected me most was the one filled with hair. Every woman who entered the prison had her hair shaved off. And the Nazis kept it all, intending to use it for insulation, stuffing, and even textiles.

The first thing you see in the room is a small case with a row of braided plaits, cut clean off of their owners heads. They looked as though they might have been cut off that morning. I couldn’t look at them for more than a few seconds before looking away. Seeing them tore at my heart, and it pains me to even recall it now.

And then you turn and see it. A mountain of hair as tall as a person and at least as deep as it is tall, running twenty or thirty yards across the length of the room. Over four thousand pounds of it. Photos aren’t permitted of the hair out of respect, but I don’t think that I would show it to you even if I could.

We saw a display case filled with empty cans of Zyklon B, the industrial pesticide that the Nazis used to murder prisoners by the hundreds. It wasn’t chosen because it was fast or clean; it was chosen because it was cheap and readily available. It wasn’t fast, and it wasn’t clean. Many prisoners survived the gas only to be burned alive along with the dead in the crematoria.

We saw another barrack block that was used as a special prison within the camp--used for disobedient prisoners and anyone the guards felt like making an example of. Some rooms were so crowded and poorly ventilated that the people inside them suffocated. Some rooms were divided into small, unlit standing cells that prisoners had to climb into through a hatch at floor level. I could barely fit into one by myself, but the Nazis would put four men in each. Another set of cells was used for testing various poisons on prisoners until Zyklon B was selected as the one for mass implementation.

We saw a wall where other disobedient prisoners were summarily shot, and a gallows where twelve Polish Christians were hanged inside the camp for trying to help Jews escape.

We saw the once-electrified fences that still surround the camp. Built to keep inmates in, it became for some their only means of escape. Many prisoner records ended with “fell against the electric fence,” and no foul play from the guards was involved.

We saw the quarters of the camp commandant Rudolf Hoss, where he and his children would play in their pool while watching the camp prisoners go about their daily work.

And we saw the gallows where Hoss was hanged after the war.

We saw the gas chambers and the furnaces. We saw the room where countless people were murdered, and the holes in the ceiling that carried the agent of their deaths.

We saw the crematorium in the next room with three ovens and a custom-engineered three-track cart system for carrying the bodies from one room to the other as efficiently as possible.

Jessica described her previous experience at Auschwitz as “intense.” I get it now. As we walked around, at first I didn’t feel anything at all. It was too much–numbing. But as we left back under the cursed gate, I could feel myself beginning to shake, with emotions too intense to file away under any pre-existing label.

Absolute horror. Absolute rage. Absolute disgust. Absolute sorrow. Absolute shame–not for any sense of having been a part of it, but for knowing that I am of the same species as the beings who did this.

I wanted this place to be enshrined forever and never forgotten. I wanted it burned out like a festering wound. At some places we’ve visited, Jessica and I have taken small rocks as tokens of our visit. But when I thought of taking a rock from this place, I felt physically sick. I’m glad I came, but I don’t want any of it to leave with me. I resented even the dust that clung to my shoes.

After a short break, we rode over to Auschwitz II, also known as Birkenau.

Birkenau wasn’t a military base. And it wasn’t a labor camp, either. It was purpose-built for extermination.

One half of the camp is built from bricks taken from the Polish villages that were leveled to make way for the camp. The other half is filled with prefabricated wooden structures. Not even barracks, they were originally designed as stables for German officers’ horses.

I always found it strange that a camp dedicated purely to extermination would need such a massive amount of living space. The simple, horrible answer is one of massive mathematics.

Ninety percent of all the prisoners brought to the camp were sent directly to the gas chambers . The remaining ten percent were used as slave labor to maintain the camp and run the crematoria. But by the end of the war, that ten percent amounted to over one hundred thousand people.

Combined, Auschwitz and Birkenau could kill and burn thousands of people every day. But even that wasn’t enough to keep up with the greater thousands that were shipped by train every day.

We stood on the exact spot where people were divided into those who would die now and those who would die later.

By the end of the war, the gas chambers and ovens weren't enough to keep up with the flood of people being shipped to Auschwitz by the Nazis for disposal. They had to be supplemented by firing squads and mass pyres. But the pyres didn’t burn as efficiently as the ovens, and they left more evidence for the Allies to find when they finally arrived at the camp.

We saw some of the crematoria sites in Birkenau. Before abandoning the camp, the Nazis blew them up in a vain attempt to hide what they had done. They knew exactly what they had done.

Near the crematoria stands a monument to the more than 1 million people who were killed in this single camp complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Back in the living quarters of the camp, we saw a barracks block that was used as an open latrine by the prisoners. We saw another barracks block that was reserved for women who could no longer work, where they were kept under guard until it was their turn to be sent to the crematoria.

Throughout our trip, Jessica and I visited many powerful places. Some positive, some horrible. But every time, I left feeling like I had gained something from the experience. Except Auschwitz.

Auschwitz doesn’t give. It only takes. As we left the Birkenau camp, I felt that something had been ripped out of me–that I was leaving as less than what I was when I went in. I could say it was innocence, or a sense of humanity's inherent goodness. But it wasn't really something that could be summed up as cleanly as that.

Auschwitz is a place of ending. It is the end of the line–both literally and figuratively. It is what happens when an ideology based on fear and superiority over others is taken to its natural conclusion. And while we may have defeated the Third Reich, we haven’t changed human nature. I don't think we ever can.

As long as there are humans, there is the possibility that this could happen again. We can’t defeat it once and for all like in a movie or fairytale. We can only commit to standing vigilant. Words of fear, words of superiority, words that divide the world into us and them–these are the seeds of the next Holocaust. And while we can’t–and shouldn’t–stamp such words out with force, we should treat them with the grim respect that they deserve, lest they flower while we ignore them.

I don’t think I’m a better person for having seen what I saw. But I might have a better awareness of how bad I could become under the wrong circumstances.

That is why I think it is important that these places be preserved in perpetuity, and that anyone who can should see them in person. Not just as a monument to the dead, and certainly not to shame the guilty as if they are monsters set apart from the rest of us, but as a warning to all humans who will ever live that they too are capable of such things.

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[mihran12]

Rest in peace Armenian martyrs. You will be beatified.

Rest in peace Armenian martyrs. You will be beatified.

Today, we are not the descendants of the Genocide survivors. We are the direct victims of the Genocide. We are living in agony and pain.

Today, we are bleeding anew watching the mass graves through different media means. It’s a reminder of our graves, our over one million and a half graves.

We are no longer asking anyone to recognize our pain, our torture. We are suffering in silence. We are…

[favor757]

Iain Glen as Jock Lawrence in “The Windermere Children”...

“Not all the work that we do - if we’re all honest - is as valuable, so you really appreciate when you’re given the chance to do something like this.”  “If the (survivors) are saying, which they seem to be, that they really approve of what the filmmakers made, well what more could you possibly ask for as an actor, as a director?” asks the Game of Thrones actor.  “If they think it’s OK, well nothing else really matters. It’s a privilege.” Based on powerful first-person testimony, the one-off film follows the children as they learn English, play football, ride bikes and forge friendships. All the while haunted by nightmares and yearning for news of their loved ones. The roles of the children themselves are played by young European actors selected from Polish communities in Germany, London, Manchester and Belfast, as well as from Warsaw. “Jock Lawrence was a real character - he was a retired PE teacher who was in the locale and offered to come and help when they were looking for sports therapy,” explains Glen. “Just being outside, being active in beautiful surroundings was really vital to a lot of their recovery and speeded it,” he insists. “The testimony was that he was well loved.” “The problem with the holocaust, generally, is it has an incomprehensibility about it for those who had no direct contact with the future generations. It’s documentary footage, of which there is a lot, but how do you find a new way of telling it?” “It’s easy to get lost in despair and it would have been very tempting to go into archive footage, but they found a story and they told it in a very effective way.” As for the trauma: “We’re never going to understand - that’s what’s so moving about hearing (the survivors),” Glen notes. “They’re alive and they went on to do such extraordinary things. And they’re incredibly grateful to the UK for providing a safe haven for them.” He follows: “Without getting too political, for me it resonates.” “We seem to be at a time, globally, where those that have, have a sense of keeping those that have not away, because there’s a sense that their nationality, their strength is going to be weakened.” “It’s a reminder of the transformative effect it can have, if you welcome people who are suffering and give them love, give them opportunity and give them hope,” he attests. “This is about people who survived, as opposed to a reminder of all of those that didn’t,” Glen reasons. “And I think that’s what enticed (the production company) Wall to Wall and the filmmakers to take this on.” -IAIN GLEN

[comfort-in-the-sound]

Update:

As I reactivated this blog and decided to get back in touch with my roots, I’ve found myself with the difficult job of trying to isolate and remove any renaissance influence (specifically garder, Crowley, golden dawn, appropriated Kabbalah, appropriated indigenous practices, appropriated houdoo practices and alexandrian) from genuine cultural folk magic. It’s been more difficult than I anticipated, occultists have been blurring the line of folk cultures fo almost 500 years. Even MORE difficult is the lack of written tradition in most cultures, but especially Scottish due to the result of the the British destruction of scot culture in the 18th century. Pagans have been happy to mix and whitewash traditions for centuries.

Because of this, through my research, I’ve had a growing worry that my hunt for a genuine ‘witchcraft’ was going to turn up nothing, that I would learn it doesn’t exist - turns out this is true for me! Neo-Paganism, witchcraft - for me, this is not my path at all, it seems almost all derived from Wicca, which in my personal opinion is a great stepping stone to get into occult, but falls apart quickly under a microscope into a grab bag of stolen and whitewashed mix of worldwide traditions - something I haven’t called myself since age 11 or so.

Instead, I will continue to research Scottish folklore and the affect war, famine and immigration to the new world had on folk remedies and superstition, as a scot from New England, this is the only appropriate path for me - my roots, and my home!

[sarahsprader]

Hypocrisy

You’re not a racist BUT ALL THE TERRORIST ATTACKS HAVE BEEN BY MUSLIMS, SO MUSLIMS MUST BE THE PROBLEM!

Bill Clinton is a terrible, sexual sinner BUT TRUMP PAYING OFF PORN STARS AND THROWING CONSENT TO THE WIND ISN’T WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED AND IT’S OKAY IF IT DID AND HOW DARE FORD RUIN KAVANAUGH’S LIFE LIKE THAT

You love america and respect the soldiers BUT GOT FORBID THEY GET MORE FUNDING! MOCKING MULTIPLE WAR VETERANS IS A-OKAY!

Keeping Jewish people in prison camps are terrible and inhumane BUT IF THE PEOPLE ARE ILLEGAL, HUMAN RIGHTS DON’T MEAN SHIT

We don’t want to pay for other people’s healthcare, it’s too expensive BUT A HUGE, EXPENSIVE WALL IS WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP THOSE PESKY DRUG DEAL’IN, RAPIST BROWN PEOPLE OUT OF AMERICA

Donald Trump is allowed to speak over every person he debates BUT, IF THEY SPEAK OVER HIM, THEY’RE DISRESPECTING THE WORLD’S GREATEST LEADER

Donald Trump is the smartest, intellectual president of all time BUT GLOBAL WARMING IS FAKE NEWS AND AIRPORTS WERE A THING IN 1700′S AND  WESTERN LIBERALISM MEANS CALIFORNIANS....

Before you call democrats hypocritical, maybe assess yourself first.

[freddyfreeman]

Charles made Erik relive his Holocust trauma to get him to stop. I see ‘92 Charles is as amoral as 616 Charles. That should be illegal....I won’t be satisfied unless they radicalize Charles in the continuation and have him rule over Krakoa with Erik. 

Also bitch Erik isn’t even WRONG