Auschwitz was liberated 77 years ago

BurgerFace

The BBC has shown that this ghastly place was overrun and liberated on January 27th 1945.

francois

Never forget what the far right did to millions

MarkEadie

the hangings of the nazis followed soon after, much to the delight of everyone

B.A._Baracus

One of the most horrible, if not the most horrible thing of all human history. The Nazis industrialised killing - a mass killing factory where the bodies were all burned afterwards.

You know the scary part? It's only 77 years ago. Not hundreds of years ago.

FintanMcluskey

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Never forget how easy it is, and was, to convince billions that the minority are the problem.

The atrocities were outrageous, but anti-antisemitism was rife at the time due to the influence of those in power

thefallingman

The Germans will hate this they don't want to talk about it and demolished all of the nazi buildings after the war, head in the sand stuff. But do i think it could happen again, honestly, yes.

o1s1n

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It's a little more complex than that. Communism was responsible for the deaths of millions of people during the same period too.

I think the one common denominator seems to be that the best thing to avoid is letting a lunatic take the reins.

Mike Murdock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544678#Comment_118544678

Concentration Camps are happening in China right now whilst the West continues to do deals with the despicable CCP.

FlubberJones

Just unbelievable that humans can do this to other humans... I understand we've been doing it constantly, but to engineer it in such a way that it was an almost conveyor belt of killing...

thefallingman

the use of nuclear bombs by the states in japan was just as bad, it just depends on what side you are on. For example, the Vietnam war is known as the american war to Vietnamese

o1s1n

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What were they meant to do with all the Nazi related statues and iconography? leave them up? I don't think that's how that works.

Skyfloater

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I'm not sure that is correct. I have a friend who has been living there for years, and says that they never stop showing documentaries on TV etc.

Note: Sample size is 1 in fairness.

thefallingman

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never mentioned statues or iconography but go ahead and answer your own questions !

FintanMcluskey

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o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544743#Comment_118544743

You said they 'demolished all the nazi buildings after the war' - they didn't, they destroyed the iconography on them. Lots of them are still standing today, just sans swastikas.

Mike Murdock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544748#Comment_118544748

"You don't have anything from the Allied side?"

"No, no. That sort of thing wouldn't interest me at all."

thefallingman

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that's simply not true Oisin you should check your facts. Start by going to Hitlers final bunker, that's now an unmarked carpark. OR his eagles nest getaway, or countless other buildings destroyed and left unmarked as if nothing ever happened.You are the only one mentioning iconography which is a weird angle.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

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That's not entirely true - a lot of them were destroyed at the end of the war and some of them were actually demolished in order to stop them from becoming shrines to Neo-nazis, like Hitler's bunker and Spandau Prison. A lot of them are still standing, just used for different puropses. Templehof airport for example (and even then, it still functioned us an airport up to 2009).

The Germans are fully aware of their history and fully accept it. There's no head in the sand stuff.

o1s1n

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The fact that there are still Third Reich era buildings standing which you can go and look at today is fairly indicative of not 'all nazi buildings being destroyed' in some kind of attempt by the Germans to completely erase their WW2 era history.

Here are some of them:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jun/02/nazi-architecture-then-and-now-in-pictures

I was countering your point that Germans bury their heads in the sand and want to just erase their past and move on. I've quite a few close German friends and most still have a post war guilt over the atrocity, even younger people. It'll be a long time before that goes away (if ever)

thefallingman

wow ok, i have a german friend so i'm right. Ok then !

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544854#Comment_118544854

Actually, I've lived in Berlin since 2014.

thefallingman

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and you have an avatar of Adolf Hitler, find it amusing do you ? Wow

breezy1985

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The bit about the buildings is not true and I find Germans far more open than the English, Spanish or Russians when it comes to admitting to their atrocities

SouthWesterly

My wife's grandparents put the lives at risk hiding Jews In Eastern Europe during the war. They were Lutheran.

o1s1n

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It's not really a matter of being 'right' or 'wrong' - it's the question as to whether or not German's still feel guilty over what happened during The Second World War. You seem to think they don't, they erased their history soon after and want to move on and forget about it.

I'm just telling you from my own experience actually interacting with German people, that this is far from the case.

I'd love to know what you are basing your own opinion on.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544894#Comment_118544894

Stating a fact: I'm telling you why I'm in a position to correct you. What I have as my avatar or what my sense of humour is like is irrelevant.

thefallingman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118544993#Comment_118544993

Irrelevant in a thread about Auschwitz and you couldn't wait to say you live in Berlin, and defend germans, yet have Adolf Hitler as your avatar. mmm not sure you know the meaning of the word irrelevant. Frankly it's disgusting and any right minded person would agree.

gmisk

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Ah yeah god love them...

12? I think high ranking Nazi officials hung after a long trial...not exactly the same.

Ham_Sandwich

Holocaust deniers/skeptics disgust me

thefallingman

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pity they didn't get the ones who escaped to Argentina like Mengele and Eichmann and many others.

Gusser09

Hell on earth is what it was in reality. A good documentary with interviews of survivors portrayed the atrocities. Babies being ripped apart by the limbs in front of parents is one that sticks with me.

Do I think it could happen again? I think the world needs to deal swiftly with Russia at this point.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

When you hear of Neighbours of Jews in Poland and other places turning on them and sneering / goading them being marched to the death camps is what this means.