Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Price of Cowardice.

“…Do you know why it was easy for your people to be so murdered in millions? They were too scared and too weak…they were cowards! That was why, in all cases, it took only about four soldiers to escort thousands of them to the gas chambers. Why didn’t your people fight back? Just a dozen, from among the thousands, could have easily overpowered the few German soldiers guarding them. But no one wanted to die…not even for their wives and children. Everyone was concerned for their individual survival…what a weak, cowardly people!” – Dr. Dieter Vogel, the Nazi medical doctor notoriously known as The Butcher of Birkenau. During the 2nd World War, the man performed medical experiments on Jews, including pregnant women and children without using anesthetics. The above statement was one of his bold outbursts to the Israeli Mossad agents that abducted him in 1965.

4 comments:

Marjorie Williams said...

Wow! What a gory story!

David Simpson said...

This outburst was among the reasons why the late David Ben-Gurion (first Israeli Premier) declared that NEVER again will the Jews allow such an oppression to happen to them. Thanks for this piece.

Margaret Idowu said...

Sadly though, there have been other oppressed people who made the same error of judgement across the world. Examples were the colonized people (under the French and the old British Empire brutal colonization), the African Americans (in the Jim Crow era), the Black South-Africans (under the apartheid regime of the Dutch) and, of course, Nigerians (under oppressive military rulers).

Aretha Watson said...

There are great lessons to be learned from this story...by both the oppressors and the oppressed. Thanks for sharing.