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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:27 PM
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This came as an email today, from a good friend of mine:
I decided to post it here...


It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps, he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

In Memorial

This week, the University of Kentucky removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offended' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.
Don't just delete this. It will only take a minute to pass this along.








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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:30 PM
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1. snopes:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:31 PM
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2. Beat me: the text is the same. What Eisenhower said was probably
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:32 PM
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5. Thanks! Cause that was
pretty incredulous..
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:33 PM
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6. Thank you...
I should have checked it first...

But my source is normally reliable....:blush:
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:31 PM
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3. Check these links:
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Flabbergasted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:31 PM
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4. Wait this may be fake...
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alteredstate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:33 PM
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7. University Debunks Holocaust E-mail Rumor
Tell your good friend she's spreading inaccurate information:

University Debunks Holocaust E-mail Rumor
Media Contact: Allison Elliott, (859) 257-3303, x249
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 8, 2007) − The University of Kentucky has announced that a rumor, claiming the school has removed Holocaust material from its curriculum, is not true. The false claim has been circulated via e-mail.

The Judaic Studies Program of the University of Kentucky, in conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences Department of History, offers a course designated as History 323: The Holocaust.

According to an explanation found on the investigative Web site Snopes.com, a message claiming that schools in the United Kingdom would no longer teach about the Holocaust in their history classes began to circulate via e-mail forwards dated back to April 2007. As the message wound its way across the Internet, someone took the abbreviation for the United Kingdom (UK) to stand for the University of Kentucky, and altered the message to implicate the institution. This version has been forwarded to several people and understandably raised concern among alumni, students and other friends of the University of Kentucky.

The original message about the United Kingdom is of uncertain veracity, and any statement linking the University of Kentucky with this rumor is completely false.

"The academic administration of the University of Kentucky would never permit such a grotesque lapse in its commitment to the principle of academic freedom. Let us bury this rumor. It is a distortion of the realities on and off campus," said UK Assistant Provost Richard B. Greissman.

http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=2873&type=1
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:33 PM
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8. Drop The Friend, Ma'am....
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:37 PM
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11. I am going to inform her of the error of her ways, Sir...
She's a published author, and normally very reliable...

Not this time, though...

I am quite embarrassed...

And I do know about, and normally use, Snopes.

:blush:
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:34 PM
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9. There needs to be a link to a source or, better yet, sources re "University of Kentucky
removed the Holocaust from it's school curriculum"
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:37 PM
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10. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy
"The forces of nature will not submit to injustice. No man has the right, nor will the checks and balances of the universe permit him, to place his fellows under the harsh yoke of repression. Nor may he again place the forces of nature under the triple yoke of vanity, greed, and ambition. In the words of Shelley: Were lies your tyrant, who would rule the world, immortal."

:hi:
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 07:52 PM
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12. I am glad to see others debunk this rumor
the late head of my Sufi Order conducted a Requiem at Dachau in memory of those who lost their lives there. His sister, Nooranisa Inayat Khan, was tortured and murdered by the Nazis there during WWII (she worked in the French Resistance).
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:14 PM
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13. Googling eisenhower death camps results in something very different.
:(
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