Dennis Prager Show - The 75th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
Aired: 2020-01-28
Duration: 05:07


=== Why Read About The Holocaust? (04:34) ===

[00:00:01]  I've never understood why everybody does not feel an obligation to read one book on the Holocaust.
[00:00:12]  It will change your life.
[00:00:14]  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.
[00:00:31]  Families rounded up, put in boxcars, and sent to be murdered.
[00:00:37]  There is nothing quite like it.
[00:00:40]  It's not the only genocide, but it's an industrial genocide.
[00:00:49]  I speak frequently about the communist genocides.
[00:00:54]  This was the Nazi genocide.
[00:00:59]  Of the Jews.
[00:01:01]  Others were slaughtered, obviously, in great numbers, but the Jews were targeted for extinction.
[00:01:08]  Iran targets Israel for extinction.
[00:01:12]  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.
[00:01:33]  And of course, set to this day in my home.
[00:01:36]  But I remember as a child, in the Hebrew, I won't bother with the Hebrew, but I'll translate.
[00:01:42]  In every generation, somebody rises up to annihilate us.
[00:01:52]  Not to oppress us.
[00:01:53]  It's so interesting.
[00:01:54]  To annihilate us.
[00:01:55]  That was written almost 2,000 years ago.
[00:01:59]  And I remember as a child thinking, well, not after the Holocaust.
[00:02:04]  Nobody's going to want to do that anymore.
[00:02:07]  And then there's the trustee.
[00:02:09]  The trustee text was right.
[00:02:11]  Now Iran wants to do it.
[00:02:14]  And not only Iran.
[00:02:18]  75 years ago, President Eisenhower, then General Eisenhower, to his great credit, said, take pictures.
[00:02:28]  People won't believe if we don't have pictures.
[00:02:34]  I have a particular loathing for the Holocaust deniers.
[00:02:41]  They're among the lowest of the low.
[00:02:44]  There are really gradations.
[00:02:46]  You know, I've always said there are gradations of sin.
[00:02:48]  That's about as low as you can get.
[00:02:52]  You're slaughtered and tortured and gassed and butchered and raped.
[00:02:56]  But then somebody says, no, it didn't happen.
[00:03:00]  It's the most documented event, probably, in history.
[00:03:08]  So, I have a book on anti-Semitism.
[00:03:11]  It's called Why the Jews?
[00:03:15]  And it is an explanation of the phenomenon of Jew hatred.
[00:03:22]  It's a unique hatred.
[00:03:24]  Because it's exterminationist.
[00:03:27]  Everybody hates some group or dislikes some group.
[00:03:31]  Human bigotry is unfortunately quite ubiquitous.
[00:03:37]  But none of them are exterminationist.
[00:03:40]  We so hate you we want to exterminate you.
[00:03:45]  That's reserved for Jews.
[00:03:49]  And I believe ultimately it comes from Sinai and the Bible.
[00:03:56]  I believe that there's a God element to it.
[00:04:05]  Ernest van den Hag may have written the most persuasive explanation of the Jews that I've ever read.
[00:04:13]  It's a very brief book, and he's a non-Jew.
[00:04:16]  He wrote for National Review.
[00:04:19]  He's a brilliant man.

=== Why Jews Left Judaism Entirely (00:45) ===

[00:04:21]  Ernest van den Hag.
[00:04:23]  H-A-A-G. The Jewish mystique.
[00:04:28]  Jews brought a judging world into the world and they've never been forgiven for it.
[00:04:33]  He's not the only one to say it, but he said it really well.
[00:04:36]  That's why Jews, many Jews, have left Judaism entirely, have become anti-Jewish themselves.
[00:04:57]  Trotsky was an example.
[00:05:00]  And there are others whose names I will not mention at this time, because I don't want to get into politics.