The "Experiments"
In 1939, the year of my birth, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis initiated World War II. That War dominated my consciousness for the next six years, as it did every citizen; especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The level of tensions were so strong, until this day, I have clear and vivid pictures in my mind of daily events like convoys, black-outs, etc. Mother died the year the War ended, searing those memories forever.
We fought that war to defeat the Nazis, and, (after Pearl Harbor), the Japanese. The Communist Russians were our ally in that war. We quickly forgot these facts, and swept them out of consciousness in favor of mounting tensions and a Cold War against the Communists and the Russians. Baby-boomers grew up learning very little about Hitler and his Nazis, as a result. Except for Holocaust stories and children's stories about Ann Frank, very little emphasis in our education systems was placed on the events from 1939 to 1945.
That protracted "silence" masked critical knowledge, for our citizenry today, of Nazis "scientific" and "medical" experiments. I was privileged to meet and learn from several World War II veterans (both black and white) who were present and personally witnessed the evidence of Nazi atrocities. One veteran told me about an experiment performed on mother-and-child pairs. In the "experiment" the mother was subjected to steadily increasing levels of pain; to a point where she would destroy her own child to relieve the pain. The Nazis wanted to measure the "limits" of instinctual human bonds between mother and child. The Nazis learned from a long history of Eugenics (much of it from the Americas) and acted to perfect their theories of a Master, (Super-human) Race.
I remembered that story as I watched Trayvon Martin's mother being very skillfully manipulated, through her pain, by the Defense Attorney, to get her to blame her son for his own death. Most citizens will not recognize a connection, here, to Nazi "research". The Attorney then contrasted Trayvon's mother (the Sub-Human?) to Zimmerman's mother (of higher "status") providing her the opportunity to "save" her son from the consequences of his crime.
There are several, more serious, consequences to our failure to learn adequately from our World War II experiences with Naziism. At a time when Media dominates every aspect of our lives, it would serve us all well to review the techniques the Nazis perfected to propagandize the public. It might be argued that their Media efforts enabled them to take over Europe so rapidly.
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