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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 02:01 AM Jan 2018

Yesterday in 1945, January 27th, Auschwitz was liberated




Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz #WeRemember @DCdebbie @edbott @jeffjarvis


It CAN happen again. It CAN happen in this country. Did anyone really think Trump would get elected, the asshole/racist/sexist/neo-nazi lover he is ? If the overton window does not get shifted to the left, we're sliding slowly towards it.

The first camps would be for Muslims. Then anyone to the left of Hitler, labor unions, and entire gamut of Nazi untermenschen.
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Yesterday in 1945, January 27th, Auschwitz was liberated (Original Post) steve2470 Jan 2018 OP
Thanks for posting this. CTyankee Jan 2018 #1
I remember visiting the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris in 1995. The monuments applegrove Jan 2018 #2
I was in Nice and Eze, France in 2005 BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #4
K&R! Cha Jan 2018 #3
Overwhelmed thbobby Jan 2018 #5
It can happen here. Behind the Aegis Jan 2018 #6

applegrove

(118,018 posts)
2. I remember visiting the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris in 1995. The monuments
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 02:17 AM
Jan 2018

to the holocaust camps had lit candles. I'm sure they are still being lit daily, all over the world. Never forget.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
4. I was in Nice and Eze, France in 2005
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 02:26 AM
Jan 2018

and this was a BIG deal over there for a whole week. The TV was mainly in French, but all the channels were showing all of the events around France and Europe and their leaders had a very solemn ceremony marking the event.

thbobby

(1,474 posts)
5. Overwhelmed
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 04:31 AM
Jan 2018

I read about or watch liberation of concentration camps. What a horrid thing to see. The soldiers that liberated them must have been dumbfounded (words cannot describe this). But then I think, My GOD! They just witnessed the horror. People were slaughtered (again, words fail me).

I do not believe it will come to this in America today. Perhaps just thinking it might is to drastically understate the horror that did happen. I do know all people must be aware of what happened and stop it from happening again. I often wonder if I had been a living in Germany what I would have done to protect Jewish People. Everyone wants to think they would have risked their lives (and their families lives) to protect innocent people. But I have not been in a position to prove it.

It is a situation that is beyond my ability to comprehend. After one innocent is slaughtered by fascism, does it become a matter of numbers? We are leaning toward fascism. What will we do to stop it?

Behind the Aegis

(53,831 posts)
6. It can happen here.
Sun Jan 28, 2018, 04:38 AM
Jan 2018

But, I disagree about the first camps. Those would be for immigrants. After another "9-11", then we might see camps for Muslims/Arabs. If they'd only stick to the Jews, then they might get away with it.

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