41% of Americans Have to Ask, 'What's Auschwitz?'

Newser ^ | 04/12/2018 | By Arden Dier

[onyx]

Sadly, I’m not surprised at all.

[The Westerner]

I’m grateful my father was not assigned to free the camps. As part of the 3rd Army, he was tasked to evacuate Germans from their homes because he spoke Yiddush. Can you imagine the effect on American GIs who liberated the starving men, women and children?

The best writing on the Holocaust is found in one chapter of Peikoff’s, “The Ominous Parallels” which Ayn Rand, herself a survivor of the Soviet takeover of Russia, helped edit. It was published right after she died early 80’s. His weaving of philosophy, history and interviews with hundreds of survivors is/was the last thing I ever want to read or watch about the death camps. My grandparents lost all our European family in them.

But there are holocausts still occurring though not as shocking. Germany was the most civilized country on earth. Almost unimaginable how it could have happened there. Except if you have lived in the US for the last 60 years.