World Holocaust Memorial Day - Black Triangle

1/27/2012 08:49:00 am BenefitScroungingScum 5 Comments

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Most of us are familiar with the words of Pastor Neimoller, but we are much less familiar with the true origins of the holocaust. The first victims of the Nazi holocaust were the 'anti-socials', mostly disabled people, those with mental health problems and learning disabilities. Marked with a black triangle, labelled as 'useless eaters' and an economic drain, the Nazi's learnt how to exterminate other human beings by experimenting on these vulnerable people with Zyklon B gas, techniques that would later be refined in order to commit the mass murder of millions of people. Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers of the West London Synagogue has blogged the powerful and moving speech of one of her congregants, Dani Neumann to explain how and why the extermination of disabled people sowed the seeds of the later mass genoicide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, communists and other 'undesirable' groups.

To mark World Holocaust Memorial day please remember....

"First they came for the disabled people

and I did not speak out because I wasn't disabled...."