soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Feb 24, 10:47 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> There is no such thing as a "Holocaust industry", anymore than there
> is a "Bolshevik Industry" or a "Facist Industry" or "Anglo Saxon
> Industry" or a "WW II industry.

No such thing as a WWII Industry? People make money manufacturing
costumes and equipment for grown-ups to play soldier with; the Hitler
Channel recycles footage from old, low-quality documentaries for new
documentaries that are often even worse; politicians use the "lessons
of Munich" or the "lessons of Pearl Harbor" in situations that bear no
resemblance to those episodes, and I'm expected to believe there's no
WWII Industry?

> To suggest a remembrance of a very critical historical event is an
> "industry" is very odd.

Remembrance is one thing; commercialization, trivialization, and using
tragedies and crimes of the past for current gain are another.

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