http://www.missourah.com/2009/09/07/doctor-zero-the-eff-word/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doctor-zero-the-eff-word snarky, self-referential tagline Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.missourah.com/2009/09/07/doctor-zero-the-eff-word/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Marcy O'Rourke Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:02:36 +0000 http://www.missourah.com/?p=459#comment-998 Thirty years ago, I had a friend who was a doctor in her eighties and a refugee from Nazi Germany. She was a Russian Jew, whose family had fled to Germany when she was a small child. She told me how much her family had loved Germany, how modern, educated and welcoming they found their new country. When the political problems began, neither she nor her parents believed Germany would become dangerous, as their Russsian homeland had. My friend was studying in Italy, when her parents were put in concentration camps. She made it out to America, never to see her family again. I relate this because my friend was a first hand, intelligent, and experienced witness, who did not believe that anything as bad as the Nazis could happen in her country. She also said that many Europeans, at the time, looked down on America and Americans. And that they were very surprised they had to be rescued by people they had supposed were their inferiors. Whenever I think 'it can't happen here', I remember her story. Thirty years ago, I had a friend who was a doctor in her eighties and a refugee from Nazi Germany. She was a Russian Jew, whose family had fled to Germany when she was a small child. She told me how much her family had loved Germany, how modern, educated and welcoming they found their new country. When the political problems began, neither she nor her parents believed Germany would become dangerous, as their Russsian homeland had. My friend was studying in Italy, when her parents were put in concentration camps. She made it out to America, never to see her family again. I relate this because my friend was a first hand, intelligent, and experienced witness, who did not believe that anything as bad as the Nazis could happen in her country. She also said that many Europeans, at the time, looked down on America and Americans. And that they were very surprised they had to be rescued by people they had supposed were their inferiors. Whenever I think 'it can't happen here', I remember her story.

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