tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004436662131906365.post5429375505617585340..comments2023-10-30T23:47:11.780+08:00Comments on Towards a Rational America and an Enlightened Judaism: Faith By the NumbersSecular Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355591007995127097noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004436662131906365.post-83844588575979481182009-06-14T10:59:50.288+08:002009-06-14T10:59:50.288+08:00I think that this disbelief/denial extended even u...I think that this disbelief/denial extended even until the arrival at the death camps.<br /><br />I also think that this refusal to accept the truth was one reason that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising happened as late as it did (1943). The first hand accounts from the camps were in and there was no longer any doubt about what what the Nazis were up to.Secular Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03355591007995127097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004436662131906365.post-62096119578267210942009-06-14T00:50:59.215+08:002009-06-14T00:50:59.215+08:00No doubt...disbelief (they can't possibly mean...No doubt...disbelief (they can't possibly mean to kill us all -- they need us to work, etc., etc.) played a major role in the acquiescence. I've seen it expressed in almost every Holocaust movie, usually just before they get aboard the cattle cars. <br /><br />And I can understand. Something so monstrous did indeed defy belief -- until the first-hand accounts started coming in.Alannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004436662131906365.post-23434648550623885002009-06-13T13:50:57.985+08:002009-06-13T13:50:57.985+08:00I think that one reason for acquiesence by the vic...I think that one reason for acquiesence by the victims of the Holocaust is that they couldn't comprehend the notion of genocide while they were being rounded up. Perhaps they were in a state of denial, and really belived that pretext given by the Nazis that they were just being relocated to the East or at worst that they were being sent labor camps, not to their deaths. Maybe this is why Secular Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03355591007995127097noreply@blogger.com