In the days when Tsar Peter was ruling Russia and the Great Northern War was raging the invading Swedish forces lived off the land. Russian farmers would prepare for the Swedish soldiers’ raids by stashing away supplies in secret places and then pretending to have nothing. The Swedish soldiers, however, came upon a very simple and effective way to make the farmers give them the key: they took away the children. More recently, the Hitler government rounded up unwanted people. He had them separated into men, women, and children. I think I know what happened to the men and the women. I wish I did not know about the children. But the testimony of SS-Obersturmfuhrer Hafner is on record: “The children were brought in a tractor. The Wehrmacht had already dug a grave…” I am glad, though, to know that the surviving guilty members of the Nazi German government were hanged.
One of the four judges was an American. America was great then. He had a right to be righteous. But now America has its own problem with unwanted people. Granted, we have no King Charles, no Hitler, but we have made a start. We have a White House Chief of Staff who is determined to deter people from coming here by any means. Including the taking away of their children, as he admitted on camera.
It seems that taking their children is indeed a very effective way to get people’s attention. “Gotcha!”, as the Pied Piper of Hamelin said, pulling the kids behind him into the mountain.
©2018 by Herbert H. Hoffman