‘The American holocaust’
To the editor:
What I witnessed at the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Upper Bavaria, Germany, forever forcibly impressed upon me the sanctity of human life.
World War II was over and the bomb group I was assigned to had been moved from England to the former Luftwaffe air base at Lechfeld near Augsburg. I was retrained from aerial gunner to aerial photographer and participated in “Operation Casey Jones,” mapping Europe (with some restrictions), the Balkans and North Africa in B-17s at 29,000 feet; films were given to cartographers who made more definitive maps.
One particular weekend day, my squadron commander recruited me to drive him and two Swiss officers to Dachau.
When we drove along the stockade road within the camp, imprisoned German S.S. troopers and other former concentration camp personnel jeered at and taunted us. U.S. Army armed guards in wooden towers watched closely as we drove into the compound.
A former inmate, an English-speaking Dachau survivor, still quite emaciated but healthier, served as our guide. The tour sickened the four of us after viewing many places of execution, sleeping quarters, crematory ovens (some with human bones still in the furnaces), the shower-gassing room and medical experimental rooms. We were shown what was called the skinning room, and lamp shades and gloves made from human skin, according to our guide. We saw the huge burial pits where people were executed and dumped. Our guide showed us photographs too horrendous to relate here.
More than six million men, women and children of Hebrew lineage and more than five million gentiles and other semetic-race people were murdered in Nazi concentration camps in Germany and other Nazi-conquered countries.
There was little opposition by the German populace to the Third Reich’s evil practice – just like it is today in abortion-consenting America – in the destruction of human life.
Generally, today, Americans accept the evil practice of destroying human life with our Supreme Court’s endorsement. I see no difference between what I witnessed at Dachau and abortion. I am persuaded that rationalizing abortion, such as “pro-choice,” doesn’t alter the fact that willful, premeditated murder of human life in our beloved United States constitutes the American holocaust. What’s next? Euthanasia of the infirm and elderly?
The Bible tells us that one of the seven abominations God hates is “ ... hands that shed innocent blood.” – Proverbs 6:17.
America has created its own holocaust. God help us!
Donald S. Mullins
Sycamore