P.S. Socialism is what is being perceived as the little cousin of Communism. And Communism is as atrocious as Fascism with millions of people being murdered (i.e. USSR, Cambodia, etc). Many socialists in Europe had been funded by USSR in the past, so in its historical sense the thought of it can be scary. Albeit social welfare is “an enormous step in the right direction” it is wrongly thought as the slippery slope to Communism.

P.S.2. As per anti-Semitism, you say you “don’t begrudge anyone their faith” only to apologize later for “the religious rant”. I don’t think religions trump each others through scriptures but through the facts and actions on the ground. If a religion (or state) teaches murder of non-believers (non-Aryans), hatred, and disrespects human rights, then we have a moral problem here. It is not through religion but through the moral imperative that people should act in this world.
See this: http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html

Be ever vigilant. Remember the phrase “Arbeit Macht Frei” – Work Makes you Free. Think about how our own governments subtly infuse us with this message. Be aware. Never forget. This stuff didn’t happen all that long ago, it happened in my parent’s lifetime. It’s not remote.

I watched this in 1985 when it was originally aired, tears streaming down my face the whole time. I was only 22, and of course I knew all about the Holocaust, or so I thought. This documentary gives you an altogether new perspective though, and in my case, a life changing one.

“So while Germany starved during a depression … Jewish community, at that time were very much seen as ‘exploiters of their hosts’.”
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Are you really suggesting that the Holocaust was just an understandable punitive reaction to a German subculture of meddlesome Jews that exploited the national banking system? If that is your brief, let us all pause now and reconsider our historical judgment. Perhaps we have been too rough on the Nazis…is that it? I suppose then, that it would be alright to round up all the offending Wall Street investment firms that introduced derivatives and then execute them in “reeducation camps”?
Surely you must be joking! The Ultra-Zionists of the West Bank are morally wrong but are they really related in some mitigating fashion to the death camps and how?

zeitgeist (?za?t??a?st) — noun ;the spirit, attitude, or general outlook of a specific time or period, esp as it is reflected in literature, philosophy, etc.
[from German, literally: time spirit; see tide 1 , ghost ]

If he exists, God on the other hand, not only knew that the atrocities were going to take place long before they did,(and went ahead and created a World which he knew would result in it,) he also stood by and did nothing whilst millions of men, women and children were systematically slaughtered in accordance to Hitler’s “Final Solution.”

Let’s look at this for what it really represents, a disgusting chapter in human history, something that we must never let happen again, something we must learn from. Let’s not start quoting chapter and verse from scripture, or trying to explain away or provide comfort by allowing answers or justice through God, it’s an insult to the millions who died terrified in the camps, many of whom were no doubt pleading for some divine intervention that never came, right up until they drew their last breath.

Our soldiers did a much better job at bringing the holocaust to an end and providing care and atention to the needy than God, who, in his infinite power, would have found the task of intervention a trivial baring on his resources, would he not?

To quote McKown: The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.