ON HOLOCAUST CONUNDRUMS (PART 86)

My usual statement before one of these posts.

I'm not a Nazi and I'm not a Holocaust Denier.  Just a History Geek.

Watched a program on TV a few nights ago about life in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi Occupation.

Bizarrely it was about what the people living there did to make food as the supplies they were given (presumably by the Nazi's) was highly rationed.

Now, riddle me this.

We are told that the Nazi philosophy was to kill every single Jew on the planet.  Man. woman or child.  We are also told that the purpose of the Warsaw Ghetto was just as a staging post where the inhabitants could later be shipped on to concentration camps to be either worked to death or gassed straight away.

It begs the question, at least  it does for me, as to why the Nazi's gave them any food at all? Why make any attempt whatsoever to keep the inhabitants alive when the only purpose for most of them was for onward transmission to certain death?  Why not just leave them all there to starve to death? Would that not have been the main purpose anyway?  That they are dead?  Using trains and personnel to transport them would have been a colossal waste of time and money when they were going to die anyway?

We are told that the Nazi's considered Jews as non human? Did non humans deserve to be fed?  Especially at a time when Germany was being bombed and it's own people were starving.  I would have thought they would have given whatever spare food supplies they had to their own people rather than to a people they hated and were marked for death anyway?

One of the many things we are told as fact that just doesn't make sense.

ON OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN

Really saddened to hear of death of Olivia Newton John.

In 1977 when Grease was released I was either 13 or 14 and The Clash already had or were just about to change my life forever.

I remember going to see it at the old Avenue Cinema on Royal Avenue in Belfast.  It's long gone now.  I went with my old friend John Gray and recall we had to queue outside for ages.

There's no denying what a phenomenon Grease was then and to some extent still is.

It was everywhere.  You couldn't escape it.

I loved it.  Still do and have watched it more times than I care to recall.

More innocent times then.  The songs are timeless to everyone no matter which genre you're a fan of.

ONJ was stunning.  Anyone at that age and that time that denies they had a massive crush on her lies.

'Hopelessness Devoted' is a beautiful song and she nailed it perfectly. It's still one of my favourites.  Ever.

I watched a stage show of it once in London many years ago and enjoyed it too.  Lots of the audience were dressed like characters from it.  Some bloke from Steps was in it but I had no idea who he was?  The girl who played Sandy was really good and did the role justice.

As you get older is all about deaths sadly.

Another part of my adolescence is gone and it makes me sad.

R.I.P. Newtron Bomb.

AFTER THE WATERSHED

I've been using the Internet basically since there was an Internet so I do know what I'm doing there now. I obey all the sensible rules.  Don't open email attachments from strangers and all the other stuff that just makes common sense.

Facebook is the only Social Media site that I'm a member of and I do enjoy using it most of the time.  Unlike many others I'm not one of those users who stupidly accept every 'friend' request I receive and like everyone else I get a few every day.  If it's not someone I personally know, a family member, a friend of a friend or at the very least someone I've had some sort of contact with I ignore and delete straight away. There are lunatics out there and they are best avoided.

Anyway, a few days I received a message from one of my Polish acquaintances on Facebook Messenger.  Someone I've chatted to in the past and an all round genuine guy.  His account had obviously been hacked in some way.

There was no attachment or dubious link or anything like that.  To my horror what the message contained was a compendium of pictures of child sexual abuse.  I deleted it immediately as soon as it registered with me what it was.  It was appalling.  Probably the vilest thing I've ever had the misfortune to see. 

Now I'm not an angel and don't pretend to be.  I watch 'normal' porn like probably a fair percentage of the adult human race.  Not all the time but once in awhile.  I'm not apologising for that or making an excuse for it.  It's pretty normal I'd imagine.  But this was something else.  I've never come across anything like what was in those pictures ever before and hope to never do again.

The problem now is that I can't 'unsee' it and it's effected me terribly.  I can't get it out of mind at all no matter how hard it try.  I keep thinking about those poor kids forced to commit those terrible acts.  Surely they must have parents?   What makes a parent agree to subject their children to that sort of thing.  It must effect them the rest of their lives.  In nothing but negative ways.  What are the adults that take part thinking about?  Have they no guilt?  They must be aware of what they doing and how totally wrong it is?

I'm trying really hard but no matter what I do those imagines are now in my mind and are there forever.  I'm also worried that they are now hiding somewhere on my PC?  You hear about that sort of thing happening.  

I've been trying to find a Charity or somewhere that deals with this to at least have a chat with someone about the trauma I feel.  Because it's real.

So far no luck with that but I had to write about it just to get something out there.

It's a Godless, horrendous world we live in it really is.