Brilliant response. Thank you for putting this ugly accusation to rest. As someone who has studied and loves Japanese history, art, and culture, I truly enjoyed your post. Well, done, DredgenRaeve.
I will add that I lost most of my family in the Holocaust, and I find the casual use of the atrocities of the Na zis highly offensive.
If someone wants to get a true understanding of the pain we feel as survivors who lost family to Hitler, I will share this personal story with you.
In Israel, there is a museum called Yad Vashem, which is Israel's memorial to the vistims of the Holocaust. In Yad Vashem, there exists the Hall of Names, which commemorates the more than three million Jewish souls who have been identified out of the six million who perished at the hands of Hitler.
The is also an online database that allows you to look up a family name, called THE CENTRAL DATABASE OF SHOAH VICTIMS' NAMES
It can be found here: https://yvng.yadvashem.org/
Here is my story. Go to the url, enter my last name, which is Bachner, and say a prayer for the almost 300 Bachner's killed by the na zis.
The holocaust was real. It killed half of the Jewish people alive on the good earth. It is not a joking matter. The Holocaust must serve as an eternal reminder of what can happen when evil is appeased and ignored.
AM YISRAEL CHAI - THE NATION OF ISRAEL LIVES.
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Are you serious, or is this an elaborate joke?
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Why would he make a joke about the yad- veshem or his family (even including his family name?)
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Edited by Ghodzilla: 12/20/2018 7:28:05 PMThank You for the kind words. My point in making th post was to remind people that trivializing the crimes of the na zis is not only wrong, but it has become one of the leading tools of Holocaust deniers who would prefer that future generations never even learn about the murder of six million Jews and millions of other innocent human beings.
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Trust me - I know. Just scroll down and find the comments by digital_Zack and other internet w@nkers with alternative history lessons. Stay safe and thanks for posting using your real name and not shit talking behind a veil of anonymity.
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Edited by Ghodzilla: 12/20/2018 7:29:04 PMWhy would I joke about my family be murdered in the Holocaust? I was responding to the fact that someone thought the use of the name of an ancient Japanese deity, Izanami, for the forge, which by a coincidence is imanazi backwards, was a white supremacist plot. "In Japanese mythology, Izanami no mikoto (Japanese: 伊弉冉尊 or 伊邪那美命, meaning "she who invites") is a goddess of both creation and death, as well as the former wife of the god Izanagi-no-mikoto. She is also referred to as Izanami no kami."