Saturday Afternoon: No Way Out Except Through The Holocaust
Dec. 21, 2013
On the first day of the Winter Solstice, Carolyn does a kind of Christmas show with an un-Christmasy title. Subjects include:
- The primacy of the fresh-cut Tannenbaum to the German Christmas tradition, going back to the pagan custom of bringing evergreen boughs into the house in winter, partly to ward off evil spirits;
- My father’s Christmas trees, and my fond memories of “the night we put up the tree”;
- How the Christkindl, the gift giver, morphed into St. Nicholas and then to the commercial Santa Claus;
- Letters from airman Leopold Wenger on the Western Front (1939-42) reveal that the one necessary element for a Christmas celebration was the tree;
- New Vienna Philharmonic story and European Human Rights Law Court story show that there is no way out except through the holocaust;
- Details on the upcoming Jan. 27 Revisionist Commemoration website, which will be only about Auschwitz-Birkenau, not any other aspect of holocaust;
- Carolyn talked about her German ancestors’ long time of living in Hungary on Tom Sunic’s VoR program in Dec. 2009!




