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.