Calmeyer’s Legacy

Hans Calmeyer Righteous Gentile 1903-1972

“The Dutch Schindler”

 Lawyer for Life

WHY  SAVE  LIVES ? 

To the despot who wants ultimate power, like Hitler, it is a clear part of the plan to first intimidate a people, then enslave them, and ultimately kill them if they resist or if there is no use for them anymore. Even better, intimidate them to the point of actually having them think of themselves as inferior and being subject to whatever laws are used against them, however capricious. Hitler managed to do this very well. In Calmeyer’s day before WWII, Jews voluntarily turned themselves in. In fact, many thought that they would be given a better life by the authorities. They could not imagine the concentration camps even when their possessions were “temporarily” confiscated by the Nazis for “safekeeping” while the Jews were to be moved to new “safe” areas. Once they were moved to the camps, unending threats and indoctrination would render the Jews helpless, not only physically but mentally:

Like every great tyranny, the left has always known that the chains must be placed not merely on men's bodies and property, but first and  foremost on their minds. Merely placing chains on a man does not make  him a slave. He must be taught to think of himself as a slave. To see  himself as inferior and worthless. He cannot be prevented by escaping only through threats of violence, instead he must be brought to think  that he does not deserve freedom. That whatever dissatisfaction he has  with his current condition is his own fault, and that slavery is actually a kindness being rendered unto him. Then his body need no  longer be chained. His body can be free and he will remain a slave,  because it is his mind that has been chained.

Daniel Greenfield   The Moral Disarmament of the Civilized World   Feb. 28, 2010