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Jan. 28, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
05:07
The 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
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I've never understood why everybody does not feel an obligation to read one book on the Holocaust.
It will change your life.
To realize what happened in Europe, engineered by one of the most sophisticated societies in the history of the world, it has to make you think.
Families rounded up, put in boxcars, and sent to be murdered.
There is nothing quite like it.
It's not the only genocide, but it's an industrial genocide.
I speak frequently about the communist genocides.
This was the Nazi genocide.
Of the Jews.
Others were slaughtered, obviously, in great numbers, but the Jews were targeted for extinction.
Iran targets Israel for extinction.
In the Jewish liturgy for Passover, in the book called the Haggadah, Jews read, it's a very old book, it's thousands of years old, and in it is a phrase, That I remember from the Passover Seder in my home.
And of course, set to this day in my home.
But I remember as a child, in the Hebrew, I won't bother with the Hebrew, but I'll translate.
In every generation, somebody rises up to annihilate us.
Not to oppress us.
It's so interesting.
To annihilate us.
That was written almost 2,000 years ago.
And I remember as a child thinking, well, not after the Holocaust.
Nobody's going to want to do that anymore.
And then there's the trustee.
The trustee text was right.
Now Iran wants to do it.
And not only Iran.
75 years ago, President Eisenhower, then General Eisenhower, to his great credit, said, take pictures.
People won't believe if we don't have pictures.
I have a particular loathing for the Holocaust deniers.
They're among the lowest of the low.
There are really gradations.
You know, I've always said there are gradations of sin.
That's about as low as you can get.
You're slaughtered and tortured and gassed and butchered and raped.
But then somebody says, no, it didn't happen.
It's the most documented event, probably, in history.
So, I have a book on anti-Semitism.
It's called Why the Jews?
And it is an explanation of the phenomenon of Jew hatred.
It's a unique hatred.
Because it's exterminationist.
Everybody hates some group or dislikes some group.
Human bigotry is unfortunately quite ubiquitous.
But none of them are exterminationist.
We so hate you we want to exterminate you.
That's reserved for Jews.
And I believe ultimately it comes from Sinai and the Bible.
I believe that there's a God element to it.
Ernest van den Hag may have written the most persuasive explanation of the Jews that I've ever read.
It's a very brief book, and he's a non-Jew.
He wrote for National Review.
He's a brilliant man.
Ernest van den Hag.
H-A-A-G. The Jewish mystique.
Jews brought a judging world into the world and they've never been forgiven for it.
He's not the only one to say it, but he said it really well.
That's why Jews, many Jews, have left Judaism entirely, have become anti-Jewish themselves.
Trotsky was an example.
And there are others whose names I will not mention at this time, because I don't want to get into politics.
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