20-Jan: Today in History

January 20, 2007 · Filed Under todayinhistory

January 20, 1942 - Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee Conference, during which they arrived at their “final solution” that called for exterminating Jews.

I Say: I can sometimes be a skeptic when it comes to history. The writing of History is perhaps the most important of the proverbial “spoils” that goes to the Victors. That said, I now say this — never believe the Historical revisionists & Holocaust deniers. The Holocaust happened. The Jews were persecuted by the Nazis. The concentration camps existed. The “final solution” was indeed proffered and adopted at Wannsee. The Holocaust wasn’t the only evil perpetrated by Hitler & the Nazis, but it certainly was a/the significant component of that evil regime’s “accomplishments”. To deny the existence of the “final solution” is to engage in willful & wanton ignorance. It was a genocide on par with those perpetrated by other monsters of the 20th-century: Stalin’s purges, Mao’s purges, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, the Turks & the Armenians, just to name a few.

-ghp

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