tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post6534554490812495337..comments2023-08-15T02:21:46.775-07:00Comments on Things and Also Stuff...: We're not worthyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-33593099587952349872011-01-14T09:29:02.654-08:002011-01-14T09:29:02.654-08:00Quite right;what I was thinking of was the whole s...Quite right;what I was thinking of was the whole system of Zyklon B and the ovens.<br /> I thought it was pretty amazing how obvious it was to Ms. Burdekin at that time ;the way that she clearly saw that National Socialism would require total removal and annihilation of what was deemed 'ungerman' not only from the German State but also from History. <br /><br />But you're right of course this was not the first use of concentration camps, it was not the first (and sadly not the last) genocide in history, nor was it news in 1937 that the German fascists were making people 'dissappear'.<br /> I suppose what I was referring to was the sense (that I got from reading the book,) of how well she understood the Nazi mindset and to what particularly dark places such a philosophy was inevitably leading them.<br /><br />I was honestly impressed and humbled even by this aspect of the book. If not by anything else in it.Darren Maherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035977231087809840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-26810736272931816922011-01-14T07:16:56.024-08:002011-01-14T07:16:56.024-08:00"That somebody would write such a book in 193..."That somebody would write such a book in 1937, before concentration camps were even built, never mind discovered, is amazing. "<br /><br />They were first employed by the Nazis in 1933. They mainly imprisoned Socialists, Trade Unionists and Communists. That continued up until the end of the war when Auschwitz was evacuated - it was following the evacuation that the concentration camps then housed a large number of Jewish prisoners. <br /><br />Also, the British invented concentration camps during the Boer war. <br /><br />But otherwise, i agree that Swatika Night is an interesting book, even if it doesn't have any real political import.Richard Huttonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902490467955321118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-24245451978208892052010-12-29T08:24:02.077-08:002010-12-29T08:24:02.077-08:00An odd sheaf of memory sometimes falls loose when ...An odd sheaf of memory sometimes falls loose when i consider either 1984 or Brave New World, the fall of which presents me with a school memory. <br /><br />In secondary we had one of those workbooks, as gaelaige, that gave you extracts, short stories, poems, and exercises. <br /><br />I remmeber that one of the stories presented was one a strange mix of both 1984 and Brave New World, where a primitive gaelgoir, an islander from off the coast of Ireland is brought to a 1984 type society for study. An odd trinket and I cannot remember the name of it or its author but there you have it.Munching in Inishboffinhttp://www.videosurf.com/video/conneely-of-the-west-british-sea-power-man-of-aran-100237192noreply@blogger.com