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Visited Auschwitz in 2005, there was a ceremony happening and a man was standing there in his old tattered camp garb. Tattoo on his arm was visible, very old and obviously a survivor.
I don't know what they were commemorating but think it had something to do with the date the first people arrived.
Everyone should go there, it literally burns into your brain just how horrible people can be. I shake my head at those that deny history.
Why use a 50 pound bomb when a 500 pound bomb will do?
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01-28-2017 01:45 PM
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When I was ~15 I came across a book (I read a LOT) titled Auschwitz by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli (sp?).
Nyiszli, a well-trained Pathologist, was spared by Mengele to perform autopsies on the subjects of his perverted experiments and write the clinical reports to be forwarded to Berlin.
Prior to reading that book, I saw WWII thru a simplistic boy's lens like it was a Good Guys/Bad Guys game ... just like I thought of all such conflicts like WWI , the Civil War and Revolution.
That book taught me that WWII was more ... that there was a horrific strain of pure evil at work during that conflict.
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One from my library this is a pretty good read even though a modern title written by one who survived and escaped the clutches of Mengele. I have read it and it is a very moving tale.
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My sister and I spoke on Saturday and I mentioned this thread....... She reminder me of another bout of utter humiliation of which she and I now rue...... Munster was the HQ of the UK
Occupation Army's huge 6th Armoured Division and for the Queens Coronation of 1952, held a massive parade there to celebrate the new Queen and presumably further rub noses into the fact that we were the victors. The Occupying Army made the locals sweep and clean the parade route AND watch the proceedings as a Divisions worth of Armour and Infantry churned up the newly repaired, cleaned and prepared cobbled road. And this was 7 years after.......
Our lovely maid (anglicised by us children as 'Ambrose.....') who looked after us two small children like her own wasn't even allowed to take us to watch unless it be seen as fraternisation by my fathers colleagues.
Just sooooooo pleased that we are all now different people now
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