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Originally Posted by Ron C. de Weijze  Would you have joined the party in May 1945? |
My grandparents were liberated from Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, and Salzwedel in April and May of 1945 after stints in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and after a death march in one case. The only party my family joined after that date is generally remembered (in politically correct terms) as displaced persons camps.
So perhaps you'll understand if I'm a bit bitter about conservative views from "old Europe" that celebrate a time of cultural exclusion and condescension to minorities. My family has borne the brunt of a lot more than forum rhetoric.
And it should be no shock that the political correctness you so malign was Europe's reaction to its own profound shame about what it had done to itself.