Word: holocaust
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...first started school, 14 years ago. Only now you might say, "I'm Hank from Pittsburgh and I wanna get laid." That's always good for a laugh. If you want to make things interesting, tell them you are President of an organization "out to prove that the Holocaust was a hoax...
Catholics and the Holocaust...
Reader Mark M. Steele is misinformed when he states that the Roman Catholic Church "turned its back on the fate of the Jews" during the Holocaust [July 9]. The Jewish scholar Pinchas E. Lapide investigated the Pope's and Catholics' activities on behalf of the Jews, and in Three Popes and the Jews he estimates that Pius XII and countless priests, nuns and lay Catholics saved the lives of between 700,000 and 850,000 of their Jewish brethren from rampaging Nazis sometimes at the cost of their own lives...
Steinfels talks too much about personal reasons for his subjects' change of political hue. Most neoconservatives, he says, have fully arrived in America after a climb from deprivation. Quite a few are Jewish, and Steinfels views the Holocaust as shattering to any faith in human nature. He also notes the long Jewish struggle against the quota system to explain neoconservative impatience with extreme forms of affirmative action...
...realize the Nazis thought of Jews as being somewhat less than human, but the atrocities committed in the Holocaust cannot be easily rationalized away. They show the depravity possible in a particular political system and should 'be a constant reminder to us that under certain circumstances, we are all capable of the most heinous of crimes...