Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Dear Anny,

Thank you for your post.

That was the tragedy and the irony of the Holocaust that the main =
perpetrators of WWII were the most efficient nation in Europe.

And that is, thank G-d, the reason, why the Romanians were only capable =
of producing a "Holocaust light".=20

According to my mother, a Transnistria survivor, that's is the main =
reason we, former Bukowiners and their descendants, exist today, typing =
away nicely our posts to the Cz List!

Serah Kraft
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Anny Matar=20
  To: Edgar Hauster=20
  Cc: Serah Kraft-Greenberg ; Czernowitz Discussion Group ; Christian =
Herrmann ; Cora Schwartz ; Yosef Eshet=20
  Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 4:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

  Dear all,
  I always feel "obliged" to add my thoughts to so many open questions. =
Why is Germany always mentioned and not ALL the other contributors? I =
think that Mr.Herrman is not the only witness to the silence imposed by =
the older generation upon the younger one. I/we, while living in Germany =
in the 60s, met so many people of our age (in our 30s) who tried so hard =
to find an answer and met with a wall of silence. Some of them were =
there themselves. I'll quote our friend Dieter, whom we discussed these =
questions with throughout many nights and it was he who lived through =
it. At 14 he was recruited to the "Flack Abwehr" (anti aircraft fire) =
from school. He grew up in the Hitler Jugend (Hitler's youth movement) =
and at the age of 17 went into the army. As he put it "this is where I =
lived and this is how I grew up, this was my world and I knew no =
different. We were exposed to ONE opinion and knew no other world, =
listened to no other news. And so, at the end of the war I came to the =
Oder and we, the whole regiment, stood waiting for orders that's when =
our commander said: " Now each one go their way". This was the first =
time I was to think for myself!!.No orders no order.(Ordnung)
   Then I went to Auschwitz and I couldn't believe what I saw, all the =
atrocities and human misery was too much to bear but then I came to the =
ovens THEY WERE PATENTED!!!! not only did they burn human beings but, =
the German efficiency!!!, they had a patent on it if others want to use =
it!!!! That was it for me, this was my past? my blind thoughtless =
belief??"
   We never asked Dieter where his home was, we knew his and Christl's =
father died, we never asked where nor when and were never told, all we =
know is that in the 60s they fled East Germany to the West I never asked =
nor will I ever know what his son and HIS family will ever know and how =
interested they are in us, but we are in touch.
  As for Romania and all other countries occupied by Germany, all the =
Germans really did was to take the stopper off or open Pandora's box, =
all the evil has been there and to my greatest regret, fear and disgust =
is that it is as alive today as it was then all you have to do is listen =
to Palestinian propaganda, the London Times and all of Europe. Hitler =
isn't needed names change but ideas never do,THE ETERNAL JEW. No one =
needs to apologise as long as there's the "sinner" the world continues =
in its old ways.
  Have a happy week end, Shavua Tov,
  anny
  anny

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