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fandomsecrets2018-11-10 04:03 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2018-11-10 04:03 pm
[ SECRET POST #4329 ]
⌈ Secret Post #4329 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: OP
(Anonymous) 2018-11-11 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)To say that WW2 caused Jews to worry about their safety is preposterous. We've been hated for 2000+ years. The Spanish Inquisition, Pogroms, Blood Libel -- these are all things that happened before the 20th century. It's why we're known as a nomadic people even when we've settled somewhere for a couple of hundred years.
No, of course no one saw the exact horror that was coming, and no one can be blamed for not believing it would get so bad. But at the same time, there were people who smelled the kind of trouble coming that called for getting the fuck out of dodge. I'm not saying the people that got away are better than the people that didn't, I'm just saying that there were people who had the right instincts in this situation. When my great-grandma was evacuating with her daughters, she had friends and neighbors who remembered the Germans from WW1 and figured it would be better than communist rule, ad they stayed behind to ride it out. I don't know how my grandmother knew it was different this time; I don't think anyone does to this day. I don't think she ever knew why she made the decision to leave everything and run. All I know is that she was right.