Jennifer Teege: My grandfather would have shot me

Shoa is not fiction and no kind of dramatization.

It is not even a documentary; it's a monument.

Schindler's List is, I think, the best and most horrific film drama about the Final Solution ever made.

And I can still barely believe that the camp commandant, Amon Goeth, really was as he was portrayed.

As coldly terrifying as the maddest organized serial killer, but bloodier than the most deranged hands-on mass murderers we know anything of, perhaps excepting only some among the men who did Pol Pot's dirty work, it seemed almost, though not quite, impossible even one of the camp commanders could have been, though a sane human, such a horror.

[Aside:

And yet we know sane men under arms have personally slaughtered even greater numbers of ordinary civilians not in death camps, some of them among US forces, and got medals for it.

Think of the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo.

Think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And we know it is quite ordinary for soldiers to use much more horrific weapons and impose individually much more horrific deaths, one at a time.

A flame thrower is much more horrible than a rifle.

/Aside.]

Amon Goeth was Jennifer Teege's grandfather.

This has to be one hell of a book.

When You Can’t Avoid Knowing Grandpa Was a Nazi

BBC

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Peoplemag

Too bad I found no more on her connection with Israel.

This might be the best short account in the press.

NY Post

As is well-known, being a Nazi became de rigueur for anyone who wanted to hold down a decent job in Hitler's Germany.

For many there was a lot less to it than for, say, Günter Grass, who actually served with the SS in the East.

Think of Martin Heidegger, who moved into the university position left vacant by the forced out Lutheran of Jewish ancestry, Edmund Husserl, who was probably lucky to die in 1938, at nearly 80, before the camps got going.

But for others there was a whole lot more to it than that, as in the present case.

Interesting how far JT seems to personally identify with her German side.

See the story at the NY Post, link above.

Obama, raised by his white mother and her family, seems to identify as white less than she does not only as German but as a granddaughter of this monster.