Liberation
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The Master Race

Liberation, also, The Master Race. . , Liberation , Leon Bass was born and raised in Philadelphia, the birthplace of America's Constitutional Democracy, and later became the principal of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School. He was a young African-American soldier serving in a segregated army when he entered the Buchenwald concentration camp just after the German guards and executioners had fled.,

"I remember going through those gates shortly after our men had gone through, and I saw the walking dead. I saw human beings who had been beaten, starved and tortured. They were standing there, skin and bones, dressed in striped pajamas. They had skeletal faces with deep-set yes. They had sores on their bodies. One man held out his hands, and they were webbed together with scabs due to malnutrition., Something happened when I walked through the gates. My blinders came off. My tunnel vision dissipated. And I began to realize that human suffering is not delegated just to me and mine. Human suffering touches everybody. All people can suffer."

, The Master Race , The Nazis divided the world into "superior" and "inferior" races and identified a series of victim groups., Jews were the Nazis' primary victims but far from being their only ones., The Nazis victimized trade unionists and social democrats for what they did and Jehovah's Witnesses for what they refused to do. They would neither swear allegiance to the state nor register for the draft.The words "Heil Hitler" never left their lips. The Nazis chose other victims for what they were , Roma and Sinti ("Gypsies") because they were regarded as asocial, and male homosexuals because of their behavior. German non-Jews with disabilities were regarded as "useless eaters" and their lives "unworthy of living," an embarrassment to the "master race." The Nazis used gas chambers to murder these persons with disabilities., The Nazis regarded Jews as a cancer on German society and considered the total annihilation of Jewish men, women, and children as essential to the very survival of the "master race".