In all, 130,000 passed through its gates, of whom 50,000 were slaughtered, though so few SS documents on the camp survive no one will ever know precise numbers. In its final days, every prisoner’s file was burned, along with the bodies, and the ashes thrown in a lake.
People need to read the story and remind themselves.
bmp
Read the whole article...my God, how horrific. Thanks for posting.
It was not the only blow. There were others: wars, slavery, racism, religious persecutions, torture, other failures. But it was the final blow.
A recoil from these horrors is behind the retreat into Marxism, weakness, and decadence that threatens the destruction of Western Civilization and the Western nations today.
This retreat is as misguided as the recoil is understandable.
The best hope of the world is that the people of Western Civilization will be able to overcome their suicidal disillusion and strengthen themselves in the realization that Western Civilization, though not perfect and though incapable of providing all answers, is the best, most just system of civilization ever devised and holds the greatest promise of liberty, justice, equality of opportunity, prosperity, peace, and happiness for the people of the world ever devised.
If present generations cannot sort this out, the world will face a Dark Age, but, if written records can survive it, generations in the far distant future will rediscover Western Civilization, and a renaissance will bring its finest achievements again to light, and the world will benefit from them again.
If the enemy islamist øbama really had his way....
ping
In what world is gassing people in a chamber, then having to laboriously remove the bodies and put them into a crematorium "faster" than shooting people at the grave edge and pushing them in?
I don't doubt the gassing happened, I just find a lot of the explanations given for it ludicrous.
I've even heard the claim that Jews were hauled for a thousand miles, using desperately needed transport resources, to "save ammunition."