Remembering history: what we should never forget-on January 27, 1945 the liberation of Auschwitz by

[bobthedrummer]

the Red Army began.

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_3520000/3520986.stm


This thread is for those that acknowledge that truth, that will never forget those that perished, that honor those that survived and will challenge all that deny history.

[bobthedrummer]

1. I'll never forget. Surely I'm not alone on this, who's with me? n/t

[Octafish]

2. With you, bobthedrummer!

I'll also remember how, rather than maintaining peace with those who helped end The Holocaust, we entered into a Cold War against the Soviets and forgave thousands of the worst NAZI war criminals.

That's some serious hatred for sharing or communism -- conservatives can take their pick.

[pacalo]

3. With you, bob!

[COLGATE4]

4. With you Bob.

[BOG PERSON]

5. glory and gratitude to the liberating Red Army!

hail to the liberator, Generalissimo Stalin!

[Catherina]

6. Rec'd! n/t

[leftstreet]

7. K&R

Excellent links

Thanks for posting these

[robertpaulsen]

8. K & R! Amen!

:kick:

[truebrit71]

9. I still can't wrap my head around how that much evil can be done...

...to one's fellow man...i understand in the heat of war, or for revenge, but simply treating fellow citizens like cattle and then exterminating them so dispassionately boggles my mind..

[emilyg]

10. Rec. It was too late for my Father.

[bobthedrummer]

19. .

:grouphug:

[eShirl]

11. kick

[Starry Messenger]

12. k&r

[bobthedrummer]

13. ^

[lukasahero]

14. never forget eom

[hedgehog]

15. I didn't realize the liberation came in January. My first reaction

was to be glad for the survivors that they didn't spend the entire winter in the cold.

[Major Hogwash]

16. My grandfather's brother was in the US Army when they liberated another camp

But, I don't know which one it was. He took some pictures of what he saw there and brought them home, but they wouldn't show them to my mother because they were so horrific.

[bobthedrummer]

18. My JHS German teacher was an MP guard/translator at Nuremberg-his tears spoke more than anything.

Liberation of Nazi Camps
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131

[Major Hogwash]

23. Thanks for that link. That is a great site to get information about the Holocaust.

You were lucky to have such a teacher.

I had a teacher in junior high school in the 9th grade who was German, Mrs. Bruvold.
She was really smart, and very hard. She was tough as nails, and graded "by the book", no curves in her class. And she was very hip, she knew all the lingo the kids used in those days.
She was the only teacher that I could not get an "A" in her class. She made me work harder for that damned "B" than I had to work for some of the "A"s that I got in my other classes. She was one of my favorite teachers, and because of her pointing out my weakness in reading, I put more effort toward it as the years went by. I attribute most of my success now to all of my teachers, but especially to the hard ones who made me sweat.

[ChazII]

17. K&R n/t

[GSLevel9]

20. bad century...

Tens of millions of innocents killed in WW2. Most NOT Jewish.

If you read stories of Operation Barbarossa (the invasion of Russia) you would NOT believe how brutal the Germans were to the Russian civilians.

[Forkboy]

21. K&R

[blondeatlast]

22. Indeed. My dad was a USAAF navigator in France and spoke of the

little bits and pieces of news they would get of what was happening; the soldiers at first thought it was just rumors.