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The Nazis: A warning from Time

And like a pebble skimming in the water causing ripples, still the ripples of history reach out to touch us even now. The 'persecution' of former Nazi Officers - whether they have lived 'good lives' since the ending of World War 2 - should continue. Indeed every decent, and right-thinking person should MAKE it their duty to never let these monsters rest. The long arms of Justice reaches out through the ages to eventually find, and bring down, the monsters who perpetrated some of the most heinous acts in the history of humankind on this Earth. The mass murder, and slaughter of six million men, women and children, ripped from their families, forced into slave labour in the hellish death camps, or sent to the gas chambers to die a horrible death, must never ever be forgotten. No matter how much time has passed, no matter how old the ones responsible for such acts are, they MUST be looked for, hounded, found, and brought to justice.

Indeed, even as I write this article now in the United Kingdom, a 'legal' extreme Right-Wing political party called the BNP { British National Party}, espouses and holds beliefs that state that the gas chambers did not exist. That six million Jews {not only Jews, but Catholics, the mentally and physically handicapped, gypsies and others} did not die in the gas chambers, and that the 'story' was made up by the Left-Wing media {and various Jewish Organisations}, for their own aims and agendas, to demonize Germany. They also believe that black and mixed race people, even though they may have been born in the United Kingdom, are NOT British. They refuse to recognize those people as anything other then 'foreigners'.

They espouse the ideology of the Nazis - even though they have tried to hide this part of their character to make themselves electable to the general public. They call themselves a 'democratic party' whilst denying that same democracy to those that do not happen to have a white skin. With everything they believe in, we are taken back to the 1930s and Nazi Germany. Today, as we are about to embark on European Elections, the BNP have every chance of getting one or more of their members into the European Parliament. This would mean that if that where to happen, they would be then sitting on a mountain of money.

Indeed, their tentacles would reach out even further and they would be able to attract even more publicity and membership. The danger of history repeating itself is there for all to see. But maybe this is a good thing, as some people say now that at least if they do have some of their members within the European Parliament, they will be visible. They will not be able to expose views that are downright destable to the general public, in other words, they will be watched. This, in some respects, is better than banning them which would lead to that same organisation going 'underground' where it would be harder for them to be watched and kept an eye on.

They say that history repeats itself, that what happens in the past has a habit of revisiting the future. This is why the former Nazis, and Neo-Nazis today, HAVE to be hounded, persecuted and brought to justice, no matter how much time has passed. They must be made to feel like lepers, they must be made to know that their ideologies are alien to the vast majority of the human race, white, black, Jewish and none-Jewish alike. And they must be made to feel the full weight of the law, natural or otherwise, fall on their heads.

Neo-Nazis, and former Nazis of the past, should never feel that they can rest anywhere in the world. They could be model citizens, the pillars of the community in their line of work, but be sure their dark past will catch them out. Justice will prevail in the end, yet saying that, the danger of the old Nazis is that they look so harmless, so gentle to the general public because of course they will old men and women now. The veil of their evilness and what they have done hides behind their age.. Indeed, they keep their past hidden, a secret that they wish to take to their graves. But, they should never ever be made to feel that they are comfortable, they SHOULD, once their past is revealed, be persecuted and hounded for the rest of their natural days.

They should be imprisoned, no matter how old they are. Why should they be allowed to live out the rest of their lives in comfort, whilst having denied that same right to the millions that they sent to their deaths? Did those innocents who where gassed, or who worked on the camps not deserve to live? No my friends, because from the moment that you turn a blind eye, and say that what is done is done, that what happened was years ago and so it would not be worth persecuting those who are old and infirm now. From the moment you say that - or think in along those lines - you give licence for the same thing to happen again. To turn a blind eye, and ignore justice, is to my mind, the greatest insult you could give those who died horrifically at the hands of the beasts..

So, I say to you all who read this piece, be ever vigilant, bring to justice those that have committed crimes against humanity. If you know of anyone at all who you know for a fact,. was a Nazi back in the past, and committed atrocities and pogroms, then it is your duty, and the duty of the people around you, to bring them to justice, to hound them, and to contact the relevant organisations, such as, The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, the Anti-Defamation League, The Nizkor Project, Searchlight Magazine, and last but not least, The United Nations.

To Sum Up: Where people have denied, and cut short the lives of those that they have slaughtered, in the camps or the gas chambers, then I stress, that no matter how much time has passed, those same 'people' should be brought to the attention of the above-mentioned organisations. There are no grey areas here, you are either for or against such a move. Nazis, wherever the are, wherever they are living, SHOULD be denied the right to live, as they themselves denied others that basic right.

The Nazis are a warning from time, a warning from the past. Let their legacy that they left behind serve as a warning beacon, for all of us living today. And let not those ripples of history find their way to us once more, where the same atrocities would be visited upon another race of people.

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