75 Years After Auschwitz Liberation, Survivors Urge World To Remember
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/798480937/75-years-after-auschwitz-liberation-survivors-urge-world-to-remember
Today, Auschwitz is a museum recalling the evil that humans are capable of inflicting on each other. Tour groups quietly shuffle from an exhibit holding 2 tons of hair shaved from the victims of the gas chambers to the gallows where the former commandant of Auschwitz was hanged after he was tried by a military tribunal in 1947.
Pawel Sawicki, a guide at the museum, has seen thousands of tourists come from all over the world. "Sometimes I think that when they leave a candle or a stone or they put the flower or they say a prayer and they leave the memorial, and they go back to their lives, they think: 'Our job is done. We remembered,' " he says. "But I think there should be a next step. People should look at this place and think about our moral responsibility.
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25611810? ago
The former commandant made sure they were treated for their lice, supplied entertainment, hospital, went above and beyond to care for them. As for thanks, they hanged him!
Never forget that. Never.
25613393? ago
He also deprived them of their freedom, locked them in a camp, forced them to work, and gave them orders at gunpoint. Let's not act like this was Shangri-la. They were socially isolated and humiliated for years before ultimately being arrested, denied their basic human rights, and forced to serve the Nazi war machine in forced labor camps because of their ethnicity. Let's not start revising history and acting like the Nazis were good people. They weren't.
If we forget that, we'll fail to understand what the modern Nazi party in the US intends to do. Imagine BLM or Antifa not just harassing you at a restaurant or beating you on the street like Neo-Sturmabteilung, imagine what happens if the people in this country vote one of those psychos into power just like the Germans did in 1933 with Hitler. How closely have you looked at Kamala Harris' politics? What has she done when given power in the past? She locked people up as fast as she could find an excuse, then sold herself as "tough on crime." Did you see the video of her talking about the riots continuing after the election grinning from ear to ear and nodding her head enthusiastically in approval like a sadist? She might as well have been channeling Hitler during one of his famous rants.
It doesn't matter if the commandant intended to be a humane jailer. He was still willfully following inhumane orders given by a psychopath. He nicely committed ethnic cleansing.
25974330? ago
How do you know about fake news, but not fake history?
So how is your shilling job? Is your boss nice? Competitive rates, health insurance?
25614369? ago
Which ones, specifically? They were kept alive, fed, sheltered, treated for ailments, offered recreation time, etc. How exactly do you think they were being denied their basic human rights?
Even in the U.S. Hitler had more support than the allies before the U.S. joined the war. I also would prefer Hitler to someone like Trump. I think that some "pleasant ethnic cleansing" is worth trading for ending white genocide.
25616219? ago
I'm not the one you are responding to but I am unfamiliar with the trial process for each individual placed in camps.
Were there cases made against people on the basis of their personal actions? Or just lumping them together in camps.
25616658? ago
I'm sure that in a few cases there were actual trials that had them sent to camps. However, most of those interred were rebels, captured for example by the Einsatzgruppen, in territories were Germany did not control the local court systems.
25614027? ago
FDR also deprived the Japanese-Americans of their freedom, locked them in a camp, and gave them orders at gunpoint. Let's not act like this was Shangri-la. They were socially isolated and humiliated for years, denied their basic human rights, and forced to serve the American war machine because of their ethnicity. Let's not start revising history and acting like Democrats were good people. They weren't.
See? I can do it, too. FDR locked up Japanese-Americans and deprived them of their fundamental rights because it was unclear who's side they were on. This is the same reason the Germans locked up Jewish-Germans and deprived them of their fundamental rights -- it was unclear who's side they were on, and in the case of German Jews, it was already known that many in the leadership were subversive and committing acts of treason.
So ...
You can argue that this was immoral, but let's not pretend it was something that it wasn't. It was a reaction to what the Jews had been doing, not simply because of their ethnicity. After all, the Jews declared war on Germany.
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25974308? ago
FDR was actually against the Japanese internment camps, but the (mob syndicate) (((government of California))) couldn't pass up the opportunity to steal all that wealth. The man who distributed that ill-gotten wealth ended up being the inventor of the insanity plea, judge David (((Bazelon))).
25613936? ago
Found the Jew.
25612330? ago
Those dirty rotten bastards, killed a German commandant who didn't deserve it.
Okay, time to move along.