Learn or Allow History Repeat Itself.

 "You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving inhuman, it's not. It is very human it's just not the nice side of it."  Eric A. Johnson.   "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong."  H. L. Mencken.   "There are good reasons to be tired of the Holocaust. And one of the reasons is because it's so bleak . It is an atrocity and with an atrocity you don't have the balance that comes out of tragedy.  In tragety, what you learn equals, or someone balances the prize that you pay. "   " Sometimes you shout at the world to change the world, and sometimes you shout at the world to make sure it doesn't change you. "       Enric A. Johnson.    " Pessimism goes. Optimism stays. " Michael Berenbaum                           Black feral beauty Jimmy calling. Does he want to order food or water? No, he's just complaining that Chiquita is sitting in his basket. Good to see our recently adopted family member  is feeling at home. He recovered well from his road accident, but his pupils are still not okay. It may take some time, I've been advised. It is getting warmer, our cats enjoy sunbathing on the roof terrace. Colder days are yet ahead, winter isn't over, wish it was, though. Lucky are those who  can live in a house, not just a tent or some kind of makeshift shelter. Human intelligence seems to on the decline, judging by the state of our  present world, blackmailing, threatening, violations of human rights, flexible truth, successful tools in modern politics, so it seems. Massive violations of internatinal laws make people lose trust. Brave New World. It is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Ausschwitz concentration camp, freed by Russian and Ukrainian troops. Germans were very frightened of the Russians, fearing their revenge for the atrocities that Germans did to them. Hitler treated them like subhumans. Why he hated them so much I don't know.  Incredible and depressing what the "master race" (or Arier, term orginating from an Indian valley ) was capable of doing. According to Nazi believe Arier are a Nordic race, tall, athletic, blond and blue eyes, - neither Hitler himself, nor most of the big Nazis resembled this model, isn't it strange? The Nazis not only practised collective punishments, but also randum punishments to spred insecurity. They tried to kill the intelligence in Poland in order to facilitate enslavery of the others and clear the country for German settlements (land grab for "Lebensraum"). Trump's idea to clear Gaza and resettle Palestinians in Agypt and Jordania ("for a better life") is not acceptable for those concerned. Strange, Trump himself doesn't want immigrats in US........ UN and EU stressed the only solution is two states, Palestinians need to have their own state. Underneath the skin we all look alike, why rasism? It appears to be helpful to have scapegoats, allows exploitation, is welcomed by those who are full of envy, don't mind getting in an evil way rid of successful competitors. As James Baldwin once explained, those who deep down feel inferior, feel better if they can believe persons exist who are even less worthy than they are. The Nürnberg Trail was a good idea, but it ended too quickly, more war criminals and mass murders should have been held accountable and received harsher sentences. All too often Nazis who appeared to be useful, got away without punishment, even with the help of US government officials, not just in Germany. This included Shiro Ischili, the Japanese leader of Unit 731, a department of the Imperial Japanese Army that carried out horrible unethical experiments on prisoners and civilians. Shiro Ischili managed to offer his test results - "experiments that you could never carry out in your country" - in exchange for immunity, given by the Supreme US Commander of the Occupation, Douglas McArthur. Difficult to stomach. Animals could and would never do what humans are capable of doing. By the way, abused children, those who have been subjected to a lot of cruelty, if left to grow up without therapy, can either become very sensitive and develp deep empathy, or become hard and cruel. Lord have mercy.