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I Am Tired of America

I just read a poll. They asked people if they could travel back in time, whether they would kill Hitler as a child or not, knowing what he did as an adult. Most Spaniards answered they would not. Most Americans answered they would.
I am proud of Spain for this answer. Again I saw American oversimplicity, believing that this killing would have solved all the trouble in the world. Hitler was evil, but not the absolute evil. If he had been killed, another one worse than him could have taken his place. Things are not that simple, we must study which are the conditions that make possible that Hitlers are elected and followed by the mob, and try not to repeat them again.

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@CherryBombBetty you nailed it - truth is
the new "hate speech"

@Cierzo I hope I would have the courage to kill Hitler and if you think that makes me simple so be it.

Did you consider Spaniards were less affected by WW2 and Hitler having remained neutral in both the first and second world wars?

Have you considered what part anti -Semitism might play in their responses?

I do know that Hitler's philosophies led directly to the murder of over 1 million Jewish children. I wonder what you would consider worse than the Holocaust?

One guard at Auswitz describes how a giant grave was dug and a truck drove up full of children. The children were shot directly into the grave. One little girl was in a white coat. She had been shot in the throat. She asked for some water, before she started vomiting up blood. She asked her mother to 'turn her over' but of course her mother was not there.

It is assumed she was buried alive with chlorine poured over her and the bodies of the other children to help with the decomposition process.

I get that you see things in black and white. Good for you. However, feeling pride that many Spanish people would choose non intervention (again) and judging Americans because many have the compassion to see shades of grey is really, in the end, quite shallow.