Replies to post #326592 on CMKM Diamonds Inc. (fka CMKX)

[Investorman]

Soros was a Jewish teeenager in Hungary during the Holocaust. During the war he was 9 years old when it started and 14 years old when it ended. I don't know how politically savvy you were at 9, 10, or 11 years old but I doubt you would have run up to the Germans and shouted "I am a jew" knowing that they would kill you.

I can't fault a kid pretending to be someone else who was Christian in order to stay alive.

[Investorman]

The relevant portion from the 60 minutes interview is shown below. Can't find where he said, "he enjoyed it."

KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.

KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.

Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.

KROFT: I mean, that's -- that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?

Mr. SOROS: Not -- not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don't -- you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no -- no problem at all.

KROFT: No feeling of guilt?

Mr. SOROS: No.

KROFT: For example that, 'I'm Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?

Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c -- I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets -- that if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would -- would -- would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the -- whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the -- I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.

[TSXminer]

From Wikopedia:

Soros was thirteen years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.[17] Soros worked for the Jewish Council,[9] which had been established during the Nazi occupation of Hungary to forcibly carry out Nazi and Hungarian government anti-Jewish measures.[18][19] Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis:

The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper...It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 am...And I was given this list of names. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, "You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported."[20]

In 1944, at age 14, Soros lived with and posed as the godson of an employee of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture. On one occasion, the official was ordered to inventory the remaining contents of the estate of a wealthy Jewish family that had fled the country.[21] Rather than leave the young George alone in the city, the official brought him along. The following year, Soros survived the Battle of Budapest, in which Soviet and German forces fought house-to-house through the city.

[TSXminer]

Soros has given away $7 billion out of his estimated net worth of $13 billion. The list of benefactors is too long to post here, but you get my drift.

Sure he's a billionaire, but dollar for donated dollar, he makes Bill Gates and Warren Buffet look like pikers.