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Concentration Camp Liberators Gather in Washington
Washington Post ^
| Thursday, April 15, 2010
| Annie Gowen
Posted on 04/15/2010 2:10:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Did Barack tell them how his Communist uncle did that for Stalin’s Red Army?
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:30:26 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(VP Biden on Obamacare's passage: "This is a big f-ing deal". grumpygresh: "Repeal the f-ing deal")
To: nickcarraway
The documentation/photos should be in every school history book and there should be text for required reading and study.
For we who do not know history - are bound to rpeat it and/or stand by and let it happen again.
To: nickcarraway
A few days ago I watched the film that was shown into evidence at Nuremburg.
Or, I should say I watched about half of it. I simply couldn’t take it.
The men who liberated these camps showed restraint beyond words. Perhaps they were just tired of death, but I would have been tempted to go to the nearest German town and level it
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:31:04 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Socialism is for people who've given up.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
but I would have been tempted to go to the nearest German town and level it Look into how we dealt with the Werewolves.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:34:30 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:36:23 PM PDT
by
nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
To: nickcarraway
Thank you one and all who bore witness to the unthinkable.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:40:09 PM PDT
by
Carley
(I'll keep clinging to the constitution, my guns and my religion, thank you.)
To: nickcarraway
My Grandfather was an engineer in the 101st Combat Engineers, part of the 26th Infantry Division. (Yankee Division) He told me as a small boy of liberating the Gusen concentration camp in Austria in 1945. The emotion in his eyes when he told me his experience at Gusen was mixed with deep sadness that man could inflict such suffering on his fellow man, and also anger at holocaust deniers.
He was detached from his unit and part of the first amphibious assault wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day in '44 at age 19. He passed away last month and was buried with full military honors. RIP Pop - Thanks for everything.
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posted on
04/15/2010 2:40:44 PM PDT
by
mrmeyer
("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
To: Psycho_Bunny
What was the name of the film? I’m not sure I could watch it either, but it is history that must not be forgotten.
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posted on
04/15/2010 3:08:59 PM PDT
by
Cathy
To: mrmeyer
RIP Pop is right, what a wonderful tribute to your grandfather.
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posted on
04/15/2010 3:10:28 PM PDT
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Cathy
To: SJackson
Holocaust deniers be damned.
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04/15/2010 3:14:20 PM PDT
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xJones
To: freekitty
I’m trying to figure out how your post fits with this story?
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posted on
04/15/2010 3:17:30 PM PDT
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Guenevere
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To: nickcarraway
As the very proud son of a 45th ID (Thunderbirds) vet that was peripherally involved in the liberation of Dachau, I wish that he could have joined these other great men there in Washington, DC.
Unfortunately, I have just had him committed to a end-stage care facility as his mind has lost it's moorings over just 3 weeks. My sadness is only tempered by my pride in his accomplishments, National Guard enlistee to Bird Colonel, CIB for WW2 and Korea, Purple Heart 4 times, Bronze Star with "V", Silver Star and Legion of Merit. He led his men from the front and has been honored by them ever since. It is not RIP but when dementia strikes, the ruin makes one weep!
As for the liberation it is well that Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower ordered maximum documentation of the horrors of this "Hell on Earth". As he so presciently saw, without such documentation, these nightmares would be doubted and then forgotten in mere generations. Kudos to such foresightedness!
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04/15/2010 3:35:41 PM PDT
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SES1066
(Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
The men who liberated these camps showed restraint beyond words. Perhaps they were just tired of death, but I would have been tempted to go to the nearest German town and level it It has aways surprised me that we (British and Americans troops)did not
To: Cathy
Nazi Concentration Camps - Nuremberg Trial Film"The file entitled "Nazi Concentration Camps" was entered as evidence at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials of Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess, and 22 other Nazi officials at the end of World War II. It presented a stark picture of the atrocities of the Holocaust and ensured than no one would ever doubt the meaning of the charge "crimes against humanity."
To: Cathy
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posted on
04/15/2010 4:17:13 PM PDT
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Psycho_Bunny
(Socialism is for people who've given up.)
To: Cathy
I should say: THESE LINKS ARE 100% GRAPHIC AND HORRIFYING IN THE EXTREME - THIS IS RAW, UNCENSORED FOOTAGE, TAKEN BY THE ALLIED FORCES, OF NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AS THEY EXISTED WHEN THEY WERE LIBERATED.
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04/15/2010 4:24:40 PM PDT
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Psycho_Bunny
(Socialism is for people who've given up.)
To: SES1066
Eisenhower also ordered that the German citizens be put on clean up detail in the concentration camps so that it would be harder for them to deny the Holocaust. Yet, despite the overwhelming evidence that Germany wiped out most of the European Jews, some people today still allege that the Holocaust never happened.
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04/15/2010 4:46:25 PM PDT
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04/15/2010 4:55:52 PM PDT
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SJackson
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