As a child of the 70's raised in small town Ohio, my first encounter with the tattoo was the episode of Fat Albert. It was tastefully done, but didn't really get into as much detail as this comic strip did. Not knowing about it then, I looked it up...quite a heavy mistake learning all about it at that age, especially with all the pictures that came with it.

My problem with the strip is that is a subject matter that should not be introduced to the very young in all the detail. I do however think that the strip did stay on the right side of the line.

At 38, I still do not want to consider the perspective of the soldiers in the liberation units. The perspective of the "prisoners" will always be off the table for me. It is one of the few subjects, that for my own well being, I will gloss over by saying that it was a horrible atrocity and try to leave it at that. Some things are better to just be acknowledged as opposed to relived.

Dear lord.

If deep was a volume of sound I'd be deaf by now.

So what's so truthful about this?

I'm still waiting for the comic about the hundreds of thousands of Chinese murdered by the Japanese...

..maybe even a comic of the millions of dead Russians...nah, that comic won't ever be published. But let's all focus on just One genocide...the others obviously don't mean jack....

When I was a kid, I met a concentration camp survivor who still had the tattoo.

She came and spoke at our church and I was amazed at how optimistically her view of life was.

I have to admit that I have issues with people who deny that the holocaust occurred.

i don't find it all that moving, sorry folks. i have a certain sympathy with the point gorehoundlarry makes. there is a lot of hand wringing about the holocaust but very little examination of it.

this little cartoon doesn't remind the child to avoid the actual causes of a holocaust, it reinforces the belief that it can only happen under a particular brand of political idealism. unfortunately, this just isn't true.

I didn't find it moving either. The holocaust was terrible, nobody is disputing that, (well actually some sadly do), but what....how shall we say....irritates me is that when it comes to the subject of the holocaust, the muder of six million jews is often quoted. However if you include the murder of Poles, Russians, homosexuals etc, then the true figure is more closer to 11 million. Often these victims just seem to get a passing mention and it angers me. As if there suffering was somehow less and not worth much of a mention.

Whilst the holocaust was a deeply troubling time in our history, why do we keep banging on about how many Jews lost their lives?

Have the 6 million other lives that were extinguished in the concentration camps become insignificant?

Did we suddenly forget the political dissidents, homosexuals, eccentrics, the elderly, Jehovah's Witnesses, and so on, who were all rounded up WITH the Jews?

What happened that made their lives so damned insignificant that we don't think of them whenever the holocaust is mentioned?

Worse still is the fact that Hitler is branded a genocidal maniac... he didn't even manage to kill as many as Stalin (23 million), and no one bats an eyelid when Stalin is mentioned.

It sickens me that all we do is talk of the 6 million Jews, whilst forgetting the 29-million others who had no way to save themselves... or for that matter the men and women who fought so very hard to stop these terrible men in doing what they did.

Originally posted by dampnickers
Worse still is the fact that Hitler is branded a genocidal maniac... he didn't even manage to kill as many as Stalin (23 million), and no one bats an eyelid when Stalin is mentioned.

I think that is because Stalin is seen as a revolutionary figure and a hero by millions rather than a maniac. Same thing for Mao, who is credited with around 40 million deaths.

This cartoon moved you? that's very nice. You have the right to be moved. When, however, did I lose the right to express my feelings? Why am I not equally free to say I am indifferent?
I understand it is politically correct to say you are horrified by this
But if you're not?
Have we reached the point where political correctness demands we make liars out of ourselves? I do not care.
In my world there have been and continue to be, many many attempts at genocide. Any and all attempts to make me see the Jewish Holocaust as special or of more importance than any other have failed. It was an attempted genocide just like all the others and I will care about it to the same degree it's survivors care about the 11 million Germans killed after the war had ended or how much they care about the children being slaughtered in Gaza today.
Am I permitted to say Stalin killed over 20 million but it's ancient history, get over it. Then why am I not permitted to say the same about Hitler's genocide? Why must I agree this was somehow 'special'. This was somehow 'different'.
It was one of a hundred attempted genocides. Get over it already