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Wednesday, June 19, 2002

The latest Bleat

[...] Then I saw “The Diary of Anne Frank” and I got a better picture. The Nazis terrified me. They weren’t just the thing in the dark at the bottom of the stairs, but the thing that bolts up the stairs and bursts into the light shouting orders. But I didn’t get the why. Why were the Nazis after Anne Frank? Because she was a Jew. But this was an answer that answered nothing.

And then you learned that to a Nazi, it answered everything.

If you don’t see that in the shining faces of the mothers and fathers and little children celebrating the glorious martyrs, where will you see it? [...]

posted by Terry at 9:04:00 AM

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