Say "No" to Nazis

The Massacre at Oradour   On this date in 1944, German troops entered the village of Oradour in France, gathered up 642 of the citizens of the small village and massacred them in the town center. According to James Holland, in his book “Normandy ‘44,” this was the result of a mistaken identification of the town as the home of an Allied soldier who killed a German in the days following D-day. Some 200 children were among those murdered on this day in 1944 in Oradour. May the memory of all these unfortunate innocents be eternal.

 As political forces on the right recoil from engagement with the world, democracy in America is increasingly imperiled.  Is it only a coincidence that as a steely fascism advances, corporate power likewise increases and threatens to take over control of the whole country? Let us, then, be about the very serious business of protecting democracy now.  Let us begin, as this blog entreats:  Just say, “No,” to Nazis.