r/MadeMeSmile • u/RoyalChris • Feb 25 '25

Wholesome Moments Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis and his efforts went unrecognised for 50 years. Then, in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he had rescued, who were now adults.

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u/faunaVibrissae Feb 25 '25

Why is this my first time seeing this? Also none of the videos on this sub have ever brought this kind of emotion out of me. My God this was so tragic and beautiful.. I hope he lived out his final years happily. I truly do. The world is full of bad people who seemingly get louder every day. This man was not one of them. This man was and will always remain a real hero. I hope more people like him appear soon..

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u/Marcyreis Feb 25 '25

Let’s hope that if such a dark time passes you and I can both be as brave

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u/ClickAndMortar Feb 25 '25

Current events have certainly given many opportunities, and there doesn’t seem to be much shortage of opportunities in the coming months and years.

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u/Nuggetdicks Feb 26 '25

Dude, I know you troll so just please don’t neglect what he did vs. debating on Reddit or confronting Green.

People died in gas chambers and nothing had ever happened to compare

Sit down

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u/someone447 Feb 26 '25

You know the Nazis didn't go straight to death camps, right?

First they started with dehumanization by saying Jews were poisoning the blood of Germany(migrants poisoning the blood of America), they accused Jews of blood libel(calling trans people groomers), they built internment camps on foreign soil(Gitmo and Panama).

We obviously haven't reached death camps, and hopefully we never do. But if you can't see the parallels to the late Weimer Republic and the rise of the Nazis, you are either blind, naive, or lying.

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u/plonkydonkey Feb 26 '25

Also, from what I understand, this was all happening before the war broke out. If the terrifying parallels keep up, including dehumanising trans people, firing the intellectuals (defunding research and replacing federal workers), I fear that the lesson to learn from history is that we should be acting now. I'm not American, so I don't know what can be done on the smaller scale, but certainly it makes me wonder how I can help in my own country, where there has been a lot of frightening rise in anti Semitism and people emboldened to express those views.