Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

He nodded solemnly. ‘And do you know why he killed himself,’ he asked
me, daring me to know the answer, the answer he had learned in school,
from a friend. ‘It was because the gas bill was too high. He couldn’t afford
it.’
No, my little brother didn’t realize he was joking.
Or the time my young sister took a practical joke literally, and on
Holocaust Day in school, publicly announced that Chihuahuas were the
number one killer dogs during the Holocaust, responsible for the murder
of many Jews. To this day she shakes uncontrollably whenever she sees a
picture of Paris Hilton and her pocket sized dog in her purse.
As a child someone convinced me that Hitler was responsible for
inventing cigarettes, in order to give Jews lung cancer.
It all boils down to whether we even want to know the facts. You can
create as many Holocaust museums as you want, but if the crowds are all
lined up to see a bunch of inglorious basterds destroy the Nazis singlehandedly,
then there may, God forbid, come a time when entertainment
becomes a place of reality and the museums become a home for the
discarded relics of the past, things like the sign above the Auschwitz
Concentration camp.
And Chihuahuas will take the place of Doberman Pinchers.
And Hitler will have killed himself because he couldn’t ‘afford’ to keep
killing Jews.
And, darn, if only the Master Race hadn’t made those silly mistakes we’d
all be demi-gods today.
It’s time to give the Holocaust a reality check… today.
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