I had read interviews with Dr. Mengeles Israeli captors. They said he was a quiet, soft spoken person with none of the arrogance they expected. He was the least menacing person in the world.
He enraged one of his guards by speaking to him in Hebrew ( I can't remember if it was traditional Hebrew or Yiddish). He said to him "You know quite a bit of Hebrew" Mengele replied that he learned the language in school and had always been fond of it, and of the history of the Jewish people. The guard said "Do you know these words? "Abba" and "Imma"...Mengele said the words over and over, like he was tasting them in his mouth and he said "No, I don't know those words. What do they mean"?
Abba and Imma mean "Daddy and Mommy" It is what Jewish children screamed when you had them taken from their parents.
Mengele showed no reaction, other than a "A-haaaaa I see"
That is as close to Hitler as any of this victims ever got...
He handled himself very well. If I was face to face with the man who killed my entire family and tried to eliminate my entire race, I am not sure I could sit there and discuss it calmly.
I don't see how those Nazis could live with themselves. And they all fled like cowards. It's too bad many of them got to live into their twilight years in freedom.
I would like to sit down with Castro...maybe smoke a cigar with him (not the Clinton way) would like to see just how dilusional he really is.
I was introduced to Jim Jones about 3 years before he did the killer-kool-aid, I was a child and just thought his sun-glasses were funny. I would like to re-live that day as an adult
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I think most world leaders are delusional. heh. At least as far as knowing what the general population wants. How many politicians really fight for their constituents? Some do, but for most, power and self-importance are the draw.
TDD, that's interesting about Jim Jones. I remember all to well that sick feeling when I watched that breaking news.
I caught the documentary on Sadam during my I CAN'T SLEEP surf on the tube last night. What a sick man. What is there to say to a low life like that and there's nothing he'd say that would interest me in any way. I'm not THAT savvy on all the politics of the world, but what in the HELL was Ronald Regan THINKING siding with that incredibly sick bastard? Even against an equally sick regime like Iran.....bizarre.
So did he hit on your cute three year old self, tdd? One of the perks of being a cult leader is getting to sleep with all the womenfolk.
How can you question the Gipper, MM? He is the greatest American after all. Did anyone else take a gander at the Discovery Channel's 100 Greatest Americans list? Three friggin' Bushes on it. How can Ronald Reagan be great than a Lincoln or a Ben Franklin? Just to show how credible the list is I'll give you another one of the 100...Dr. Phil! heh. What a fucking joke!