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Today, I remember my Pop Pop, a true American, who volunteered in 1944 to fight a racist demagogue, given a republi⦠https://t.co/4oY0dmDMk0 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/18775
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My grandfather, my son's namesake, fought that fight too—he took this #photo after helping to liberate Dachau: https://status.hackerposse.com/url/12577
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Of course I meant, "my grandfather, my son's eponym"....
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@rozzin So hard to look at those images, but so necessary to remember the evil that all people are capable of. My wife's grandfather also participated in the liberation of cience traction camps. He has some haunting photos as well.
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The images I find harder to look at are actually ones like this…: https://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/shoah/affable-everyman-hitler.jpg
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Agreed. It's watching Nero fiddle while Rome burned. Except it's Hitler, and Western Civilization.
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@rozzin @steve One thing to remember. Hitler is usually portrayed as a monster. The Other, or The Shadow in Jungian terms. But Hitler was really just a man. A man who sometimes made telephone calls. Mostly an office worker and bureaucrat in a suit. The potential to do Hitler-like things exists everywhere and at all times. Hatred and rage, and the desire to look for simp…
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@bob @steve that's sort of why it's so hard to look at those pictures, actually—and why acknowledging them may be even more important than the more gruesome ones…
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Eric Schrijver's "Visual Literacy" article in #LibreGraphicsMag 1.1 nicely described the issues with the way photographs from history are oft used to illustrate it afterward: http://libregraphicsmag.com/files/libregraphicsmag_1.1_lowquality.pdf @bob @steve
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#LibreGraphicMag 1.1 was also the first time I ever encountered that image of a `jovial, affable, everyman #Hitler'... @bob @steve
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If you have the stomach for it, there are another 11 (more expositive) images in my grandfather's #Dachau #photo album: https://status.hackerposse.com/url/12578
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Mm. I just remembered that the last time I tried this, Yad Vashem had seriously screwed up and made their webpages un-bookmarkable—really hoping this has since been fixed: https://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/journal//my-centenarian-grandfather
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Remembering my grandfather's memories: http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/journal//remembering-my-grandfathers-memories.html
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