WAS ABU GHRAIB REALLY THAT MUCH OF A SURPRISE?

Blog number 274 **** 02 February 2009

A very interesting tome called, "A World At Arms" by Gerhard L. Weinberg delves into the discrete workings behind the machinations of the eventually warring peoples before and during WW II. One of the items it reveals was something that had only before been hinted at or mentioned in passing in other books about WW II.

With the cooperation of important segments of the SS and the MEDICAL profession, thousands of GERMANS were taken out of hospitals, mental institutions and old folks homes and transferred to what can only be called murder factories and killed and cremated there.

By August 1941, the "factory" at Hadamar held a special party for its employees to celebrate the cremation of the ten-thousandth body.

Germany is a Western culture, as is the American culture a Western culture. One should be very careful of just how "patriotic" one should be, shouldn't one, with a warning of hidden inclinations inherent in Western cultures such as was shown to us by the Nazis?