02-12-2018, 12:38 AM
Our History Defines Us
Was reading a blurb about another Jewish family trying to recapture their stolen art. The Nazis raped and pillaged their way through Europe. My friend Robert Edsel wrote two books about it. One became a movie, The Monuments Men. His second book, Saving Italy is a must read before you go on that Italian vacation.
Often, despots will try and dehumanize people by taking their culture away and erasing it. This was Hitler’s method. It’s also the method of totalitarian Muslim sects like ISIS and Al Queda. Recently ISIS blew up yet another international treasure.
One of the more interesting pieces of Robert’s book was the complicity of society in helping the Nazi’s out. There were far more collaborators than resistance. We tend to romanticize the resistance fighters. But, the truth is different. The truth is very uncomfortable. Many French were at ease with the Nazi’s. They built roads and bridges. Life didn’t change that much for them. They profited off the war.
Robert’s foundation isn’t only about the past. It’s about what is going on today as well. Click the link and check it out. He is doing work today in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I wonder about territories that are taken over by totalitarian muslims. Is it the same as countries routed by the Nazis? We are led to believe that the people don’t want them. Certainly, the people that risk their lives to get people out from their clutches are heroic. People that are fighting them daily are also heroic. But, somewhere someone is complicit and just goes along with the terrorists. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to exist and hold territory.
The aftermath of WW2 is certainly still with us today. It permeates a lot of things. Because of laws, and the hush hush complicity of people during that time, it’s awfully hard to make restitution of things like paintings to the people that should own them. Russia is full of stolen art that the Red Army took from the Nazi’s.
I suspect the aftermath of organizations like Al Queda and ISIS will be with us for years to come. We only hear about the big things they are destroying. If they are destroying things like that-what about the little things?
Was reading a blurb about another Jewish family trying to recapture their stolen art. The Nazis raped and pillaged their way through Europe. My friend Robert Edsel wrote two books about it. One became a movie, The Monuments Men. His second book, Saving Italy is a must read before you go on that Italian vacation.
Often, despots will try and dehumanize people by taking their culture away and erasing it. This was Hitler’s method. It’s also the method of totalitarian Muslim sects like ISIS and Al Queda. Recently ISIS blew up yet another international treasure.
One of the more interesting pieces of Robert’s book was the complicity of society in helping the Nazi’s out. There were far more collaborators than resistance. We tend to romanticize the resistance fighters. But, the truth is different. The truth is very uncomfortable. Many French were at ease with the Nazi’s. They built roads and bridges. Life didn’t change that much for them. They profited off the war.
Robert’s foundation isn’t only about the past. It’s about what is going on today as well. Click the link and check it out. He is doing work today in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I wonder about territories that are taken over by totalitarian muslims. Is it the same as countries routed by the Nazis? We are led to believe that the people don’t want them. Certainly, the people that risk their lives to get people out from their clutches are heroic. People that are fighting them daily are also heroic. But, somewhere someone is complicit and just goes along with the terrorists. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to exist and hold territory.
The aftermath of WW2 is certainly still with us today. It permeates a lot of things. Because of laws, and the hush hush complicity of people during that time, it’s awfully hard to make restitution of things like paintings to the people that should own them. Russia is full of stolen art that the Red Army took from the Nazi’s.
I suspect the aftermath of organizations like Al Queda and ISIS will be with us for years to come. We only hear about the big things they are destroying. If they are destroying things like that-what about the little things?
