Thursday, February 10, 2011

What???!!!!

I was watching a TV show the other night. It's a newish show called Out of Bounds and it's about Doctors in some unnamed South American Country. Or maybe they are just residents, who knows. They look too young to be doctors but lately everyone has looked too young to be anything. Anyway one of the mini stories in the story is an old guy with mouth cancer and a cheezy german accent who ends up being a Nazi. Stick up her ass blonde doctor chick turns him in to the American authorities even tho old Nazi dude is dying and everyone is trying to talk her out of it. So there she sits in the middle of the night, at the old nazi's bedside and she begins to tell him why she turned him in. She told him she WASN'T Jewish, or gay, or mentally or physically handicapped or a gypsy. I think she threw in 7 day Adventists but that could just be in my head but she did leave out the Poles whom the German thought were sub human. (My maiden name was Kwiatkowski so I'm a bit biased on that point) I never did actually hear what her reason was cause I was so flumoxed that she had gotten the rest of the stuff right! People seem to equate concentration camps with Jews only but a whole lotta other people were gassed as well. I was just amazed that this show threw that in when really if all she had said was that she wasn't jewish would have neatly fit. Usually I am pissing and moaning about what they don't get right so I must say I was impressed.
I have often wondered that if I had lived in Germany during world war II would I have been a righteous gentile or just turned my head. I'd like to think I would have been but who knows what would have happened when push came to shove. After 9-11 someone did tell me that if I had been in those towers I never would have gotten out, I would have been too busy getting everyone else out. I was touched by that comment till someone else asked me if the first person said that because she thought I was bossy. Probably...possibly....ok yeah definitely. I am also opinionated and tempermental and verbose and I think that is where this all should end.

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