16-314 Garand Picture of the Day - Dachau concentration camp

[Mark in Rochester]

Troops of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division force Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) members to view the bodies of camp inmates found dead in rail cars at Dachau concentration camp. Dachau concentration camp, Upper Bavaria, Germany. 30 April 1945.

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[Bob Seijas]

My grandson plays violin, I went to one of his practices... one song was an old German folk tune. The teacher was aghast when I told her that it had been co-opted for the Hitler Youth March, but it was true... Die Jugend Marchen.

[Mark in Rochester]

[CINDERS]

Wonder if those in the film would have envisaged the horrors of "The Final Solution" in the years to come.

[Flying10uk]

There is still a need to educate people of exactly what horrors went on in the concentration camps and in the wider Third Reich especially to the Jewish community but also other minority groups. I continue to be staggered at some people's total ignorance.

[Mark in Rochester]

While in grade school we were visited by a monk who was in Dachau - he showed us a picture of a internee in the striped uniform front, left and right view.

The side views show a large nail protruding out of the wall and embedded into the back of the skull ( this was to keep the head still for the photo)

also on the card was the individual number.

He slowly rolled up his sleeve and held the card next to his tattoo to show us the numbers matched.


He defiantly created a life long memory

[RichardX]

My father was stationed in Europe in the '60's.

We visited Dachau in the summer of 1963, I was 10, I had heard stories from one of dad's friends who liberated Dachau, and had seen a couple of documentaries, so I knew a what it was about.

When we got there I was overcome with feeling that the air was heavy, a feeling that the earth was forever tainted with evil there.

I have never been able to shake that memory--a feeling from bad things that had happened 20 years before, that had ended almost ten years before I was born.

[Flying10uk]

I believe that, bizarrely, Hitler gave some sort of "official pardon" to Jewish WW1 veterans who held the Iron Cross so that they and their family were exempt from being deported to a Concentration Camp. Is anyone able to confirm this and provide any further information concerning this, please?

[Bob Seijas]

It all illustrates why "morality" (what is right and what is wrong) has been one of the main issues in philosophy for thousands of years. "Right" can change with the society you live in.

[Paul S.]

It all illustrates why "morality" (what is right and what is wrong) has been one of the main issues in philosophy for thousands of years. "Right" can change with the society you live in.

That bring us to the very timely topic of relative truth (and relative morality) and absolute truth. I say 'timely' because our global societies are awash with the debate as we speak.


We can leave that discussion for another, more appropriate venue.