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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, whoa.

Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. Today we are continuing the series that we had going the last few weeks, covering the history of the Hebrew people, beginning in scripture, going through

medieval time, up through more modern time. And today, we're going to hopefully conclude this

series by discussing the 20th century and how the people who are called Jews today, how they fared,

what happened to them, and what we've been

told in contrast with some things that can either be proven or disproven physically.

Before we get into the episode, a warning to parents, there will be some details in this

that will probably not be child-friendly. So this is an episode you probably

want to screen before you listen to it with your kids. We know there are quite a few folks who do

that and that's awesome. But this is one that you're going to want to listen to yourself first to

decide if some of these unpleasant descriptions or what you want them to hear. We're not going to be too

graphic, but unfortunately some of the tremendous ugliness is also a key part of the story itself.

So we're not being gratuitous. It's a vital part of communicating what actually happened

versus the things that we've been told happened.

Before we begin discussing the 20th century,

I want to talk just briefly about why we're doing this in general. One of the specific things that we hope to get across with this episode

is that Corey and I want you to understand that

there are times and places where there is a massive effort to lie to us. That's up to and excluding a

global conspiracy of lies. And that's the sort of thing that sounds completely absurd. It

sounds like, you know, a conspiracy theory, which incidentally the CIA invented the concept of

in the 60s to discredit people talking truthfully about things that they wanted to cover up.

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