75 years later - Children of Auschwitz

Man's unspeakable inhumanity to man . . . .

I never visited Auschwitz, but I did visit Dachau, and if there is any place on this planet that is haunted, it is that place. It's as though the evil lingers in the very air and the sunlight dims. There were quite a few people there when I visited, but once you go through the gate the place falls strangely silent as people just try to take in what happened there. It was a very moving and overwhelming experience.

We must never forget . . . .
 
The View had a moving piece today on their show. There were some survivors that had quite a story to share! I really enjoyed it today and no we should never forget. Still don't understand those that insist it never happened!
 

Butterfly said:
Man's unspeakable inhumanity to man . . . .

I never visited Auschwitz, but I did visit Dachau, and if there is any place on this planet that is haunted, it is that place. It's as though the evil lingers in the very air and the sunlight dims. There were quite a few people there when I visited, but once you go through the gate the place falls strangely silent as people just try to take in what happened there. It was a very moving and overwhelming experience.

We must never forget . . . .
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My dad was part of the unit [the 45th infantry] that liberated Dachau . I have some of the photos he took. He talked [only briefly] about it. He admitted it changed him, as did the war in general. I asked about the story that the local citizens were brought out to help bury the victims....he said that was true.

I asked about the so called killing [by our guys] of the Nazi guards. He said of course that , that spread through the unit quickly.....but he witnessed no such thing. He said [he] did nothing of the sort. At the time it was said to have happened, he was organizing equipment for their next movement.

He was motor-pool master sergeant.
 
the only thing I know abut these evil camps is what I have been told and read'
said to my hubby- how in gods name could this happen -what human's can do to another makes us wonder about mankind,
poor souls who did not survive' kids' families' beyond me......…..
 
My wife visited Auschwitz years ago with a group from her university. When she returned home, she said the air still had a smell of indescribable odor.
 
Back in 1995 a former co-worker visited some of her relatives in Germany. They toured Auschwitz. Overwhelming is an understatement.

I've seen photos and documentaries on TV. It's hard to fathom such atrocities.

I also read the book Night by Elie Wiesel.
Oprah visited Auschwitz with him.

 
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One of my closest friends entered Auschwitz at the age of four. Usually, young children were gassed on arrival, as they were of no use, but Dr. Mengele chose her and several other children for experimentation. She remembered him as a kind, affectionate man who gave the kids treats, and tickled them. She didn't know one of the many treats were gifts like typhus, tuberculosis, etc. Her remembrance of him always (and still does) gives me chills.
 
What a shame that Mengele managed to evade capture and lived out his life in South America, eventually dying of natural causes.

In general, I am opposed to capital punishment with a few exceptions. He was definitely one of the exceptions. The personification of evil.
 
I spent about 4 years in Germany in the early '60's. I visited Buchenwald and Dachau. There was an eerie silence surrounding those camps....almost enough to make a person believe in ghosts. I cannot imagine the horrors that went on in Poland, at Auschwitz.
 
rgp said:
My dad was part of the unit [the 45th infantry] that liberated Dachau . I have some of the photos he took. He talked [only briefly] about it. He admitted it changed him, as did the war in general. I asked about the story that the local citizens were brought out to help bury the victims....he said that was true.

I asked about the so called killing [by our guys] of the Nazi guards. He said of course that , that spread through the unit quickly.....but he witnessed no such thing. He said [he] did nothing of the sort. At the time it was said to have happened, he was organizing equipment for their next movement.

He was motor-pool master sergeant.
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Does this have anything to do with that documentary Aida's secret? And then she died soon after her blind son insisted about a third brother. She seemed upset trying to hold herself together. Next scene she was gone
 
I watched the television special the other day where the people talked of their experience. How they lived through that horror boggles the mind.

It brought me to tears.
 
Autumn72 said:
Does this have anything to do with that documentary Aida's secret? And then she died soon after her blind son insisted about a third brother. She seemed upset trying to hold herself together. Next scene she was gone
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No not really, I just thought I'd share....about a man that was actually there.
 
Years ago I went on a high school field trip with my son to the Holocaust Museum in DC.....I couldn't stop crying thru the whole thing....
three floors of artifacts, photos, videos on large screens of Hitler's regimen and large scenarios of home life of those in hiding....and miniature statues in a line waiting to be killed in the gas chamber.
I am still sickened to this day when I think of this.
 
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fmdog44 said:
Why watch that crap when you all know what happened? How many times do you need reminding?
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How do you know what we know?
What's it to YOU? Since when does anyone answer to YOU?
So you clicked on a thread that you think is crap.
Wow... aren't you special...🙄

Good luck trying to stink up a different thread.
 
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fmdog44 said:
Why watch that crap when you all know what happened? How many times do you need reminding?
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When we remember, we're reminded of the capacity that humans have always had and always will have for evil. Not just random serial killers, but systematic, societal evil. I live where Jim Crow was the norm until not too many years ago. I don't want to forget just how horrible people can treat one another in hopes of not repeating the tragedies of the past.

When we remember with our hearts in the right place, we honor the people who suffered evil at the hands of others ...and those who still are.
 
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applecruncher said:
How do you know what we know?
What's it to YOU? Since when does anyone answer to YOU?
So you clicked on a thread that you think is crap.
Wow... aren't you special...🙄

Good luck trying to stink up a different thread.
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If you don't know by your age then you are one of the reason those things happen. Read a book!
 
win231 said:
Perhaps you are bothered by the fact that humans can be so despicable & evil & don't want to be reminded of something you'd rather be in denial about?
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There is nothing enlightening about repetition unless you can't get enough of it. I knew about it in the 1950's. The year is now 2020.
 
AnnieA said:
When we remember, we're reminded of the capacity that humans have always had and always will have for evil. Not just random serial killers, but systematic, societal evil. I live where Jim Crow was the norm until not too many years ago. I don't want to forget just how horrible people can treat one another in hopes of not repeating the tragedies of the past.

When we remember with our hearts in the right place, we honor the people who suffered evil at the hands of others ...and those who still are.
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If one needs to be reminded of such things then they will happen again and again. NEVER FORGET!
 
rgp said:
My dad was part of the unit [the 45th infantry] that liberated Dachau . I have some of the photos he took. He talked [only briefly] about it. He admitted it changed him, as did the war in general. I asked about the story that the local citizens were brought out to help bury the victims....he said that was true.

I asked about the so called killing [by our guys] of the Nazi guards. He said of course that , that spread through the unit quickly.....but he witnessed no such thing. He said [he] did nothing of the sort. At the time it was said to have happened, he was organizing equipment for their next movement.

He was motor-pool master sergeant.
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I read somewhere that some of the liberated prisoners killed some guards, but I've never heard that the US liberators killed any of them.
 
Butterfly said:
I read somewhere that some of the liberated prisoners killed some guards, but I've never heard that the US liberators killed any of them.
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As i said earlier, my dad heard the rumor, and the talk of charges. But nothing was ever proven, and most of command [ignored] it.....At the time my dad was in a rear location[motor-pool] saw nothing first hand & did not participate......

In the photos there are dead Nazi guards laying on the ground....So?



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