re: The Red Army stumbled upon Auschwitz 80 years ago today...

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Auschwitz was never bombed, at all.

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Bombed. Demolished. Whatever.

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The Russians liberated the camp & their version noted the same, the camp was intact.

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From the Auschwitz museum website.

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As part of the overall liquidation of the evidence of crime, crematoria II and III together with their gas chambers were partially dismantled in late 1944, and blown up in January 1945. Crematorium IV was partially burned during the Sonderkommando mutiny on October 7, 1944, and later dismantled. Crematorium V functioned until the very end, and was blown up on January 26, 1945, the day before the liberation of the camp.

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But it is my view that the Democratic Party is becoming more and more aligned with Nazi Politics and theory than ever before and we are in the beginning stages of that.

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So the nazis imo were just a hybrid of the Soviets and Italians.

What the nazis did, the leftists also did and to worse degree and for a longer period. And the goal of the leftists was world domination. Not to just take back the old areas the nationalists wanted.

They are just being who they have always been.

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simply including the bonefide asylum seekers

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What is this?

Would it be say millions of Russians escaping a dictatorship?

Guess what? We don’t want them either.

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Sorry to disappoint you. He died at a ripe old age. I detest what the SS did in the war, but we're all human and nobody's perfect. I hope he repented as he got older.

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Yes, very disappointing. I can't help but wonder if he was one of those who murdered thousands of my people. Gunning them down, burning them alive in schools, but hey, nobody's perfect.

Oh well, I'm sure once he died at that ripe old age, he got his.

You taking pleasure in the suffering of others out of a sense of revenge doesn't speak much for your character. I know he didn't take part in mass murder, burning people in locked buildings. He fought in an infantry unit against partisans that had their own issues. He was not a concentration camp guard. In fact, most of them never had any idea of what was really going on behind those walls. That is NOT justification, but fact.

Again, I abhor what happened in the camps (there's one about 2 miles from where I sit, and I've learned in great detail what happened there). It's unimagineable. There's a Jewish Memorial in our town in memory of the prisoners who were forced to march barefoot through the snow in March or April of '45 to Dachau. They didn't want the Americans who were advancing toward the town to see the full extent of this tragedy - there's a Band of Brothers episode about this. In the next town at the train station is a train car that was used to transport prisoners like cattle. There are at least 3 Jewish cemetaries in this area. I've heard the stories - in person - of survivors of these camps, and it was heartbreaking.

There is no justification for what the Nazis did to Jews, dissidents, homosexuals, the Senti and Roma, clergy who rebelled, etc. There were many groups who suffered. It was pure evil. But on the individual level, everything is not black or white. The man in question came from a life of poverty in Romania. They were subjected to a brilliant system of propaganda, they were young and impressionable, and they were led to do terrible things.

I don't know what was happening in the mind of my friend, whether he felt guilt, had nightmares his whole life, or whatever. But what I do know is that until we learn to go forward (while remembering and learning from the past), we will be damned to repeat it all. This sense of total guilt has paralyzed German society since the war ended and there has to be a point where it stops. Please don't think that because I refuse to judge and condemn a man means that I in any way sympathize with what the fricking Nazis did to innocent people in WW II.

When thousands enter , no one leaves , and there is a constant smell of burning hair and flesh you don’t need a picture to figure out what was going on behind those walls/gates. People have to live with themselves and rationalize their actions as they get older.

They didn’t have the crematoria to burn that many bodies, so logically you need to consider the contra

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One of the greatest victories the cultural Marxists have won in our society in the last 80 years is successfully branding Nazism as far right politically.

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The Nazis were far right politically. Both political extremes share a lot of common ground.

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I do wonder why any group hell bent on extinction of a race would take the time to tattoo them or spend the money to cut their hair. Why give them prison uniforms? Why provide them with razors for shaving?

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To add to what others have said, that honestly wasn't the goal either early on. They really were work camps and the thought was the Germans could at least get something out of them. They didn't turn into true extermination camps until later into the war, but even then, the labor was valuable to the war effort, so if you could work, you were made to work.

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There was no one to speak for the victims in the USSR, and many who could have spoken for Japan's victims in the East would be among the millions silenced by Mao.

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I have read that the Japanese killed well over 35 million Chinese over their decade occupation.

It is estimated that the Russians lost 27 million during WWII.

Then that evil POS Mao had the sickening 'Great Leap Forward' post WWII where an estimated 38 million Chinese were cruelly starved to death.

Stalin was just as evil. The actual number of people he had murdered is unknown, estimates are around 20 million.
He oversaw the cruel starvation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.