Posted on 01/28/2015 8:39:12 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Auschwitz is not some place that existed a long time ago. It was yesterday
There was some serious irony when U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jack Lew gathered together with French President Francois Hollande and a Russian delegation led by Sergei Ivanov, Putins chief of staff, along with leaders from Germany and Austria to participate in the January 27 ceremony commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 by Russian troops.
I suspect that an entire generation or two born after that year, 70 years ago, may have little or no knowledge of what Auschwitz was. It was a Nazi death camp located in Oswiecim, Poland. Its full name was Auschwitz-Birkenau and it is estimated that one million people, mostly Jews, were killed there.
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This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say, but they were no better off being “liberated” by the Soviets — and likely worse off.
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