Anne Frank, Hitler, Jews

A Must-Read!!

I have always wondered, searched, asked, why Hitler abhorred the Jews(particularly) and subjected them to such cruelty. Some reasons are:
1) Maybe he would have inflicted this ruthlessness on any community, but he felt that because Jews were succesful bankers and lawyers, he had to bring them down.
2) A Jew doctor couldn't save his mother from the clutches of death.
3) He may have felt that Germany lost WW one because of the Jews. It was unfair that Germany had to pay such heavy penalties, according to Hitler, and if the penalties hadn't existed, maybe Hitler would never have risen. (Or Mussolini.)
Anne Frank's diary really moved me. How can any of us even try to imagine thinking before turning on a tap, and eating wilted lettuce? She has so beautifully penned her thoughts, which ascend in maturity throughout the diary. Most of her notes in the diary seem interconnected to the next one, but surprisingly, the last note on 1st August, 1944 just made her pen a complete note of how there were two sides to Anne. The depth of her content makes you really think. Think of how a girl of 15 can have the forbearance to say that people were basically good? And that if God had inflicted sorrow on them, he'd certainly spread sunshine over them? Moreover, after reading the epilogue, of how Anne was separated from her family, one really cannot imagine the extent of horrors. www.annefrank.org really completes the book reading, as the Van Daans are actually Van Pels. The mother Petronella is actually Auguste, and Albert Dussel is Fritz. Lies is actually a shortened form of Hannelies, and even Anne's christened name was Annelies. So that makes for Anne, Hanne, and Sanne(another friend)!
We feel we are actually living with them in Prinsengracht, one of the canals in Amsterdam, and become so engrossed in Anne's life, her thoughts about her parents, Miep, Elli, Kraler, Koophuis, Margot, her adolescent love towards Peter, the Van Daans and Dussel. Wikipedia gives an insight on the gruesome concentration camps, and I honestly felt really bad, and that is an understatement, for you really feel darkness enveloping your body. I really pity the Jews, and hope that God had given them immense courage during the war. Yeah, I really do not feel like putting my trademark smiley at the end of this blog. Wish all of us could really go to Netherlands or Germany and pay homage and obeisance to these souls who suffered incognito and showed resistance against Hitler.