-
Contributing Member
28 March 2024 Garand Picture of the Day
American soldiers view a gallows erected between rows of barracks in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
The Following 12 Members Say Thank You to Mark in Rochester For This Useful Post:
25-5,
42rocker,
Bill Hollinger,
Bob Womack,
ed skeels,
fboyj,
Flying10uk,
frankderrico,
Jonzie,
Ovidio,
RAM1ALASKA,
Zeke55
-
03-30-2024 01:39 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Advisory Panel
-
-
-
Moderator
(M1 Garand/M14/M1A Rifles)
Meyer Levin, one of the first soldiers in Ohrdruf, wrote in his memoirs:“We had known. The world had vaguely heard. But until now no one of us had looked on this. Even this morning we had not imagined we would look on this. It was as though we had penetrated at last to the very center of the black heart, to the crawling inside of the vicious heart. … Now we knew. Nothing afterward told us more. Bergen Belsen, Dachau - we became specialists.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied forces, visited the camp on April 12, 1945. He wrote:
“I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency. Up to that time I had known about it only generally or through secondary sources. I am certain, however, that I have never at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock.”
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
-
The Following 3 Members Say Thank You to Bob Womack For This Useful Post:
PM
