Originally posted by Ahabstar
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.

True, but if you teach them at an early age what is right and wrong , then they will know better when they get older and not have to learn it then.

Plus we retain so much information at a young age that it would be a good idea to instill some right vs. wrong talk to a kid so he knows how not to be fooled later in life.

Originally posted by Wildbob77
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.

It def happened. But I think we were not told everything that happened, and so then people think it didn't happen at all because a few false facts come out among the millions of true facts. They run with the 3 false statements and try to use that to prove it did not happen.

It happened, but there are way too many details left out, and I'm almost sure our gov somehow benefited from it, or at least people of power in the word who were not nazi's did.

I think the Holocaust being Jewish centered is kind of a way to keep the memory of it alive. With so MANY horrible acts committed against humans by other humans throughout our history together here on Earth most are so easily forgotten. No one really bothers to worry about how many gypsies were killed. No gypsies are media moguls or bankers. No one really cares about gays being slaughtered when in the most important country on the planet we still do not allow people who publicly declare gay sexual preference to fight for freedom in the military or to have the right to a public marriage. Lets be honest about it. Jews have their own country. It is a very important country that has a lot of controversy. If the Jews were not killed in the holocaust it would probably have slipped away into the history of human atrocity. Good for the Jews to keep the memory of it alive.

Damn I almost busted out tear, this is not just about the jews it is meant for everyone who went thru that hard time.

Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas


I often felt more sympathy for the "savages", as Government propaganda called the butchered Native American's, than for the ignorant settlers, when I grew up reading the history books in school.

But then again, I see through propaganda, like it was Saran Wrap.

Same goes for the Holocaust, there is a lot of propaganda that mixed facts, with fantasy.


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I have to agree with you here, theres too much rhetoric.. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.

I went ahead and uploaded this picture to my ATS Media.



For the lazy people who don't like to click links.

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