Comments on: Nighttime briefs

By: Kevin/Chaim

Kevin/Chaim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:44:54 +0000

#1 Wolfwalker — In this case, considering the source, I would take Fr. Desbois’ using the words “one bullet per Jew” instead of one bullet “per victim” or “per person,” as emphasizing that the victims were chosen because they were Jews. That Fr. Desbois is doing this ghastly research suggests to me that for him Jews have special significance as God’s people, the attempt to exterminate them having theological significance over and above mass murder. No minimization intended, quite the contrary.

By: Y

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:27:23 +0000

speaking of the holocaust, why haven’t any jewish blogs been saying something in honour of miep gies? her death hasn’t even warranted a mention anywhere? that is sad, she was a hero.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:48:42 +0000

In his book “Hitler and Stalin” historian Alan Bullock had an appendix that gave low and high estimates for the number of Jews killed in each country during WWII. The low estimates totaled about 5.6 million, the high estimates totaled over 6.9 million.

By: wolfwalker

wolfwalker — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:58:56 +0000

Re: the priest’s discoveries. Yeah, I’d call that huge, all right. But … maybe I’m seeing something that isn’t there, but this line:

The German policemen used one bullet per Jew, Desbois said

jumped out at me. I can’t tell if this is a quote, or a paraphrase by the article-writer. In either case, why “one bullet per Jew”? Why not “one bullet per victim” or “one bullet per person”? It’s almost as if, even in the middle of an article documenting a new phase of this horror, someone felt an impulse to belittle or minimize the atrocities being described.