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Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Red Army on this day in 1945...
Posted on 1/27/23 at 6:59 am
Posted on 1/27/23 at 6:59 am
The infamous extermination/labor camp had been the scene of some 1.1 million murders from the time it opened its doors in 1942 to the time the Red Army arrived on 27 January 1945. All they found were the burned out remains of many of the gas chambers and crematoriums as well as 7,500 starving prisoners.
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 7:06 am to RollTide1987
Photo of the selection of newly arrived inmates. Sadly, you can probably guess who in the photo went straight to the gas chamber.
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 7:10 am to RollTide1987
I just went to Auschwitz. Easily the most depressing place I've ever been. Still not sure why in the hell I saw some tourists taking selfies
Posted on 1/27/23 at 7:35 am to TheOcean
The baby in that picture makes me so sad. People are capable of such horrible things.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 7:53 am to TheOcean
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I just went to Auschwitz. Easily the most depressing place I've ever been. Still not sure why in the hell I saw some tourists taking selfies
I saw people doing this in Dachau, made me wanna smack their phones out their hands. Social media has made people incredibly stupid and self absorbed.
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 8:04 am to RollTide1987
Survivor Walter Kase told his story to audiences in the Houston area for years. Great man.
His most haunting story was, the Nazis told parents to hold up their youngest child. When they did, the soldiers shot those children.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Kase
LINK
His most haunting story was, the Nazis told parents to hold up their youngest child. When they did, the soldiers shot those children.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Kase
LINK
Posted on 1/27/23 at 8:14 am to RollTide1987
A reminder that the the world is fricked. Always has been and always will be. Just fricked a little differently these day.
Auschwitz is also a reminder of the true definition of heroism in Witold Pilecki. What a badass.
Auschwitz is also a reminder of the true definition of heroism in Witold Pilecki. What a badass.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 8:24 am to gerberbaby22
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Auschwitz is also a reminder of the true definition of heroism in Witold Pilecki. What a badass.
I would also note Maximilian Kolbe.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 8:40 am to RollTide1987
I am usually pretty open to considering theories or even conspiracy theories surrounding anything high profile like the Holocaust. But I'll never understand when people say they don't believe the Holocaust happened or it was what they say it was.
The amount of evidence, even still available today, is beyond question of existence and what was going on.
And to believe that the gas chamber wasn't fully the worst case scenario with how the selected people were treated.
The amount of evidence, even still available today, is beyond question of existence and what was going on.
And to believe that the gas chamber wasn't fully the worst case scenario with how the selected people were treated.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 8:58 am to RollTide1987
I strongly recommend reading at least one of the many first hand account books out there written by survivors. It’s extremely humbling and sobering. No matter what kind of grief or suffering any of us go through in this life, it likely does not compare to what those subjected to the horrors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps had to endure. It’s impossible to comprehend being torn from my home, work, church, community…having some or all of my immediate family being murdered…then being subjected to the brutality of those camps conditions. Even those relatively few who survived after all that until liberation were faced with the reality of having no home or community to go back to and often no more family or friends left.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 9:02 am to TheOcean
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I just went to Auschwitz. Easily the most depressing place I've ever been.
Was on a business trip in that area and the client offered to arrange a tour of Auschwitz but I respectfully declined due this very reason. I just didn't won't to go to a place that had been a slaughter house of so many innocent people.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:16 pm to TheOcean
The Nazis killed a lot of Jews and the numbers don't add up can both be true.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:38 pm to BeachTiger2018
Would suggest those interested to read “The escape artist” by Jonathan freeland about the first Jew to endure and subsequently escape Auschwitz and notify the western world and the struggle for them to believe his story that what he was describing was actually happening
The character is there from the early days of Auschwitz and describes how it’s set up and how they develop it into a killing factory with some really horrible stories
Fascinating read and I can’t believe he remembered all the details of the groups of people
The character is there from the early days of Auschwitz and describes how it’s set up and how they develop it into a killing factory with some really horrible stories
Fascinating read and I can’t believe he remembered all the details of the groups of people
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Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:42 pm to TheOcean
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Please don't tell me you're a holocaust denier
More likely he’s one of the “I’m just asking questions and definitely not implying that I don’t believe it occurred” people. Who are arguably worse because they hide behind the veil of reasonable inquiry.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:47 pm to Indefatigable
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More likely he’s one of the “I’m just asking questions and definitely not implying that I don’t believe it occurred” people. Who are arguably worse because they hide behind the veil of reasonable inquiry.
Because we're not supposed to ask questions, right?
Posted on 1/27/23 at 3:52 pm to RollTide1987
I went in 2017. There are few words to describe what I saw and stories the tour guide told us.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 4:01 pm to Lawyered
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Would suggest those interested to read “The escape artist” by Jonathan freeland about the first Jew to endure and subsequently escape Auschwitz and notify the western world and the struggle for them to believe his story that what he was describing was actually happening
There’s a PBS program “Bombing Auschwitz” re-airing this week that recounts the story of escapees Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler. They escaped together in early 1944.
Their story is similar to Freeland’s because it was so hard for anyone on the outside to process the scale and coordination of the mass killings. Their story was carefully documented and eventually made its way to the highest levels American and Allied governments and military commanders.
Many Jewish and underground leaders in Europe wanted the Allies to bomb Auschwitz even though it was full of innocent civilians in order to save lives. There were between 5-10,000 people killed daily during this time, and it was ramping up capacity.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 5:37 pm to BeachTiger2018
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I strongly recommend reading at least one of the many first hand account books out there written by survivors.
This is a good read “Commandant of Auschwitz : The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess”. R. Hoess was allowed to write his autobiography while in prison waiting execution before he was hanged, in Auschwitz, by the Polish government in April 1947.
My wife worked, for a few years, with the daughter of a Auschwitz survivor, a young Hungarian Jewish boy, who was the only survivor of his entire family, and who later in life became a physician in Hungary. His daughter told my wife for all his adult life he would frequency wake screaming from terrible nightmares.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 5:41 pm to RollTide1987
Unfortunately the battle against fascism still rages just as hot, but now on the mean streets of Portland. Thank god this generation also has heroes.
Posted on 1/27/23 at 5:57 pm to CrawDude
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Rudolf Hõss
Piece of shite.
Rudolf Hess... Railroaded by the allies.
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