The “Final Solution” Must become Peace
Inspiration brought me here to:
- anyone incarcerated without trial
- anyone held in detention
- anyone imprisoned
- anyone vilified on the basis of their race or relgion or spiritual belief
- anyone held without rights
- anyone tortured
- anyone terrorised
- anyone being killed with the intention to wipe them out
The seeds of dictatorship with discrimination leads to mindsets of genocide. You cannot destroy the problem, you can only solve it and to solve hatred, discrimination and control you must forgive, love and find compassion for their confusion. They know not what they do, they blindly follow orders, they do not question and they believe their actions are right for some higher good. This is never true. The highest good is love. Love shares, cares, reveals and heals. I have this from the highest love.
I send love to the Rohingya, Darfur, Hazara, minorities in Burma, persecuted christians, muslims, buddhists and other groups not in the media. I send love to the Palestinians. I send love to Chechins, gypsies, indigenous peoples and all groups that feel persecuted. I send you love as they know not what they do. They fear difference. They fear life.
The Jewish case study is a profile of fascism and how it dehumanises a group by beleiving stories about their inferiority and threat. Demonisation always happens when there is an agenda of bullying, persecution and execution. Always note that when any group divides on the basis of any characteristic. Jane Elliott’s work on discrimination illustrates how children learn racism. It is not who we are.
It is essential all children experience what this is like and learn to not engage in it. Bridges of peace must be created to enable both parties to reach each other, if the men can’t maybe the women can, or maybe the children. Start with small acts of kindness, small acts of sharing maybe drawings, poems or songs and discover what unites rather than divides is the key. Music is another unifier. What is in common, how are we alike, what do we want, how can we relate as humans. That steps us in the right direction to overcome our pain and differences empowering people to connect and heal. The latter is so important in order for abuses to not be repeated in the future. Both the perpetrator complex and the victim complex are problematic we want both to move towards sharing the problem and solving it. that is why conflict resolution is often promoted to start dialogue and to deeply listen, exchange, question and solve the problem. This leads us to maturity which is learning from conflict rather than seeking to destroy what is perceived as “the problem” with a “final solution”. This never works.
I met a Holocaust survivor and interviewed her she said she forgave the German’s. She saw their behaviour as bullying. Her and I walked arm in arm through the peace garden in San Diego. She was such a wonderful woman.
I love all people. The Jews have to look painfully into the current mirror. It is a test for them. Spiritually it is here to remind them of “never again”. That only stops when the kabbutz starts and sharing in community is resurrected. I send them love and healing with faith they can do it.
The final solution is really the last story. It is about love. It is to love thy enemy as thyself as they are thee. Whenever we have thought negatively about anyone we have entered into division. It was never true, all innocently do what they do, we can only gently guide one another, we can never force or control as karmic forces will bring back to the one who hates. The only way to clear karma is unconditional love. It is the final solution, this is the end of war (with the self). This is indeed the resurrection of a renewable self that shines far brighter in the realisation we are each other, we are One. This is God’s way folks, how do I know. I realise when I hurt and blame I suffer, when I choose to love under all conditions then I am freed from the pain of separation from what is good, holy and indeed beautiful. Your very self.
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THE “FINAL SOLUTION”
Sign used during the anti-Jewish boycott: “Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don’t buy in Jewish stores.” Germany, 1933. (Source record ID: X89-204/08)
— Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
The origin of the “Final Solution,” the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. The “Final Solution” was implemented in stages. After the Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, “Aryanization,” and finally the “Night of Broken Glass” pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society. After the beginning of World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a comprehensive plan to concentrate and eventually annihilate European Jewry.
The Nazis established ghettos in occupied Poland. Polish and western European Jews were deported to these ghettos. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) began killing entire Jewish communities. The methods used, mainly shooting or gas vans, were soon regarded as inefficient and as a psychological burden on the killers.
After the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, the Nazis began the systematic deportation of Jews from all over Europe to six extermination camps established in former Polish territory — Chelmno , Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Majdanek. Extermination camps were killing centers designed to carry out genocide. About three million Jews were gassed in extermination camps.
In its entirety, the “Final Solution” consisted of gassings, shootings, random acts of terror, disease, and starvation that accounted for the deaths of about six million Jews — two-thirds of European Jewry.
KEY DATES
JUNE 22, 1941
KILLING SQUADS ACCOMPANY GERMAN INVASION OF THE SOVIET UNION
German mobile killing squads, called special duty units (Einsatzgruppen), are assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union. These squads follow the German army as it advances deep into Soviet territory, and carry out mass-murder operations. At first, the mobile killing squads shoot primarily Jewish men. Soon, wherever the mobile killing squads go, they shoot all Jewish men, women, and children, without regard for age or gender. By the spring of 1943, the mobile killing squads will have killed more than a million Jews and tens of thousands of partisans, Roma (Gypsies), and Soviet political officials.
DECEMBER 8, 1941
FIRST KILLING CENTER BEGINS OPERATION
The Chelmno killing center begins operation. The Nazis later establish five other such camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz complex), and Majdanek. Victims at Chelmno are killed in gas vans (hermetically sealed trucks with engine exhaust diverted to the interior compartments). The Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka camps use carbon monoxide gas generated by stationary engines attached to gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the killing centers, has four large gas chambers using Zyklon B (crystalline hydrogen cyanide) as the killing agent. The gas chambers at Majdanek use both carbon monoxide and Zyklon B. Millions of Jews are killed in the gas chambers in the killing centers as part of the “Final Solution.”
JANUARY 20, 1942
WANNSEE CONFERENCE AND THE “FINAL SOLUTION”
The Wannsee Conference, a meeting between the SS (the elite guard of the Nazi state) and German government agencies, opens in Berlin. They discuss and coordinate the implementation of the “Final Solution,” which is already under way. At Wannsee, the SS estimates that the “Final Solution” will involve 11 million European Jews, including those from non-occupied countries such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and Great Britain. Between the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1944, the German railways transport millions of people to their deaths in killing centers in occupied Poland.
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