Untermenschen
Reader Joe P. drew my attention to this photo taken in April 1945 of Jewish children and a baby in a mass grave at Nordhausen, Germany (courtesy of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Joe compared that Holocaust to our modernday Holocaust of babies, writing that the Nazis called Jewish people “untermenschen,” translated “subhumans.”
Interestingly, when people view disturbing images such as this, they become angry at those who perpetrated the crime. But when people view images of aborted children, they commonly become angry at those showing the images, not those who perpetrated the crime.
Why? We are complicit.
May.28, 2005 6:02 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The difference between viewing pictures of the Jews exterminated by Hitler and pictures of aborted babies is that we can easily critize and be offended by other’s crimes but tend to deny that we are capable of committing the same crimes in our more “civilized” era.
Man doesn’t want his sins recognizable. Therefore, our current culture has had to deny there is such a thing as sin as well as denying there is objective truths which had to be entrenched in the social psyche before legal abortion could ever be considered.
Also remember there are still those who deny the Holocaust ever happened and those today who deny the truth that an unborn baby at all stages of development are actually human.
Denial of reality and truths is today the only acceptable virtue and truth.
Thanks for posting this. Even more disturbing, if such can be said, is the current trend in “pregnancy inductions” for children diagnosed in utero with birth defects of various sorts from fatal to cosmetic (like limb deficiencies or Down syndrome). The prenatal tests are done at about 20 weeks and, if a serious “problem” is seen, the parents are channeled nto “terminating the pregnancy.” Labor “is induced,” the baby is “stillborn,” and parents are encouraged to hold and name the baby, take photos and foot prints, baptize the baby, and have a funeral and church service as well as graveside rites for their “stillborn” child who is issued a birth certificate. All of this achieves the death of what some consider to be a “defective” child, with the illusion that the parents didn’t “kill” anyone. I am currently writing a book for parents who receive an adverse prenatal diagnosis, to encourage them to continue their pregnancies and give birth, and can tell you that the pressure to terminate in the face of “defects” in the unborn is now extreme. If anyone has any stories to share regarding these “pregnancy inductions” for serious prenatal diagnosis, please contact me. And do pray for my writing effort.