On Friday, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels responded on Twitter to the protesters who disrupted his keynote speech repeatedly on Thursday.ICE has beenSome of the protest organizers have compared those detention centers to Nazi concentration camps.
Vogels responded with some personal family history about his own parents' experience in the Nazi concentration camps.On Thursday, during what was supposed to be an ordinary keynote address by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels to a crowd of tech workers in New York, protests interrupted. Protesters repeatedly interrupted the talk, taking issue over the family separation policy at the southern border of the US executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , and Amazon Web Services' dealings with the agency."I let trolls be trolls. But to yesterday's group who feel that because of my name I must be the next incarnation of WII Nazi atrocities: I am Dutch. My parents sent to forced labor in Germany and were fortunate to return where many were not.
The Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and shipped thousands of the country's Jews and political prisoners to forced labor concentration camps. World War II ended in 1945 making Vogels a baby boomer. He was born in 1958,
Who's to say it was forced labor? Were they political prisoner, Jewish? All I read is that his family helped Nazi's in the war effort. Comparing this situation with mistakes IBM made in the past doesn't justify amazon's future mistakes. Werner orwellian noprivacy iceraids