Posted on 04/11/2015 1:12:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp near the eastern German city of Weimar were to gather at the site on Saturday to commemorate the camp's liberation by American soldiers on 11 April, 1945.
The around 80 former camp inmates have come from several European countries as well as Australia, Israel, the USA and Canada to take part in a ceremony that will include a minute of silence at 3:15 p.m local time (1315 UTC) - the time at which the camp was liberated - to remember their murdered co-prisoners.
Three veterans of the US army division that liberated the camp have also come to Weimar for the commemorations, which will continue into the evening with lectures, films and music in Weimar's German National Theater.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.de ...
Ha. Genocide is happening as we type.
It’s interesting, we all live our lives and experience life, but survivors of a concentration camp, a gulag, a Japanese POW camp, the Cambodian killing fields and various horrors of the world must suffer terribly.
Coming soon to the US.
I work with one gentleman who had been a prisoner in a Communist camp in Viet Nam, escaped, and had to steal clothes and food as he made his way to safety. He is one of the nicest people I have ever met. I mean, everybody loves him, he is so gentle and kind. I don’t know what demons haunt him at night, but he very much seems to be a man at peace with himself. It makes me embarrassed when I get mad about something petty, you know?
Bttt
Shortly after General Eisenhower surveyed the camps, he ordered film crews to document the horrors. Many Hollywood cameramen were serving in the Signal Corps, and they were dispatched to the camps.
The film at this link is a distillation of the millions of feet of film exposed by the cameramen. It was used as evidence at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial:
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.43452
It’s very graphic.
It was filmed under the direction of the great director George Stevens, who served in the war as a colonel in the Army Signal Corps.
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