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Carolyn Meinel's avatar

I cried so much reading this. Thank you.

My Jewish father was on a Project Paperclip team exfiltrating German scientists so the Russians couldn't get them during the last chaotic months of the Nazi collapse. He and the Dutch scientist Dr. Gerard Kuiper (as in Kuiper Belt) traveled through the chaos in a jeep. My father, being a Calech sophomore dropout because of getting drafted, and having researched rockets during the war, was tasked with finding and defusing booby traps. Part of their job was going through file cabinets in abandoned buildings gathering scientific research documents. He said the retreating Nazis jammed human body parts into file cabinet drawers.

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ELKFLA's avatar

"...woman spat and said, “These filthy Jews are coming back.”

And people wonder why so many were desperate for a Jewish homeland and why these cult-like campus demonstrators for Hamas' snide comments that we should "go back to Europe" are so painful. My only hope is that one day, they will look back at what they did and wonder, "What in the hell was I thinking"?

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