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American Thinker ^ | 23 Jan, 2025 | Jeffrey Folks

Posted on 01/23/2025 4:29:48 AM PST by MtnClimber

‘Never again’ has long been a powerful slogan...but it is happening again.

Eighty years ago this spring, my father was an officer in the Third Army when it entered Dachau concentration camp, not knowing exactly what it would find. What my father found was horror, including dozens of boxcars, most of them still padlocked, containing the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who had been left to die of thirst. Inside the barbed wire, there were piles of corpses and bones, the remains of vibrant, innocent lives taken before their time by their murderous captors.

Recently, I saw footage of that very same Third Army entry into Dachau. I already had my father’s letters to my mother and the Brownie snapshots he took at the camp as it was liberated, so I had some idea of what to expect. What the footage shows confirms my father’s account, and what it shows is sickening. My reaction is similar to what my father expressed in his letters: “My God, how can human beings have done such a thing?”

And yet they did, and on an even greater scale and with more raw brutality, or what the Nazis called “efficiency,” at other concentration camps. And the fact that it happened under what some now view as an aberration, a bizarre political leader who seemed at times almost a parody of himself, is no guarantee that it will not happen again. In fact, it is already happening again and has been happening for some time, notably at the Chinese concentration camps, with an estimated two million prisoners and on a smaller scale in North Korea.

We have no practical means, short of war, of halting these atrocities, but we can exert economic pressure abroad against totalitarian states and attempt to prevent them in our country

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1 posted on 01/23/2025 4:29:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
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The level of hatred and the rise in antisemitism on the left shows that it could happen here too. Just look at the treatment of the J6 prisoners. We have not herd many of their stories yet.


2 posted on 01/23/2025 4:30:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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"We have no practical means, short of war, of halting these atrocities, but we can exert economic pressure abroad against totalitarian states and attempt to prevent them in our country."

We should also "exert economic pressure" against those states within the United States that allow, encourage, and support the slaughter and butchery of one million preborn babies annually!!!

3 posted on 01/23/2025 4:45:27 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: MtnClimber
the antidote is education.

Education might help with some people but it is not a blanket solution.

Many people on the Left—millions in fact—are profoundly brainwashed. Education will not affect that crowd one iota.

Those people will have to be deprogrammed. And, frankly, I'm not sure this country recognizes and understands the problem sufficiently to undertake such an endeavor.

Nazi Germany required defeat in war to recognize the problem. What will be required in America?

America's problem looks more like the Biblical "strong delusion"...and it isn't just America.

4 posted on 01/23/2025 4:56:52 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

I agree with you. This isn’t an education problem. It could be called a spiritual ignorance problem, but it’s all based in sickness of the spirit. Only God can cure that.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 5:04:15 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, the Bible says EVERY nation will send armies to destroy Jerusalem. Every means every.


6 posted on 01/23/2025 5:05:45 AM PST by Strict9
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To: MtnClimber

I visited Dachau in the 60s. Life changing experience. Hard to imagine what went on there...


7 posted on 01/23/2025 5:13:46 AM PST by donozark (If the intelligentsia are so smart, why are they always the first ones to be shot?)
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To: ViLaLuz
sickness of the spirit

Absolutely. And it's an intractable problem.

Not to sound paranormal, but it seems to be demonic (and we don't even really know what that means). I use the term "demonic" because the actions of many on the Left defy normal human behavior and/or logic, appearing more like an orchestrated effort to promote evil for its own sake or as part of a larger, malevolent plan.

To understand this, look at late-term abortion or the genital mutilation of children.

8 posted on 01/23/2025 5:27:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: MtnClimber

My daughter went to Dachau in 2015 the summer between her Junior and Senior years in high school. It was part of a tour organized by her high school german teacher. They went to Frankfurt, Lucerne, Vienna, Munich, and Salzburg.


9 posted on 01/23/2025 5:51:51 AM PST by DFG
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To: donozark

I visited Dachau in the 70’s. There is an spirit there that I have never felt anywhere else.
The hard work of making it happen started a decade earlier in the Nazi education of the people.
What happened there can happen again.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 6:00:46 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: MtnClimber

Mass Murders and concentration camps are nothing new in the human condition. The existed long before 1930. And they will exist for ages after us. They are horrifying every time, every place.

The difference was the location and the industrialization of it. We also know that it’s going on. We choose to ignore it as a species.


11 posted on 01/23/2025 6:04:37 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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I recall it was Gen. Eisenhower who ordered everything documented by photographic evidence knowing that people would not believe what was going on in Germany. And look at our university campi today. Mass bullying needs to end by full expulsion without any return of tuition.


12 posted on 01/23/2025 6:05:43 AM PST by healy61
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I always think of Edward R. Murrow’s description of Buchenwald.

Imagine people hearing this for the first time back in 1945, how many would have believed it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQkrLPJGM8


13 posted on 01/23/2025 6:06:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vermont Lt

Also, the Germans had the audacity to document it, and film it.

The Soviets didn’t film the Gulags.


14 posted on 01/23/2025 6:07:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: donozark
I visited Dachau in the 60s. Life changing experience. Hard to imagine what went on there...

My visit was in 1985.

I had another opportunity that same year to go back. I refused.

Before my visit, I never believed that a *place* could be evil. That visit changed my mind.

I *still* get chills when thinking about my visit.

15 posted on 01/23/2025 6:08:04 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s definitely demonic, which refers to anything that doesn’t come from the Holy Spirit.


16 posted on 01/23/2025 6:11:33 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: super7man

I visited and thought the same thing. A strange feeling in the air when I visited.


17 posted on 01/23/2025 6:18:43 AM PST by freefdny
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To: MtnClimber

Guess “never” doesn’t mean what it was thought to mean.


18 posted on 01/23/2025 6:19:03 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: MtnClimber

I have no love for China or North Korea, but I doubt either country, at least these days, simply rounds up people, community by community, gasses them, and throws them in ovens.

But I do agree with the second half, the Democrats DEFINITELY want to do the above to Trump supporters and will, once they have the pieces in place that they need for it (the White House and majorities in Congress). The rest (judges, the military, rigged voting, and the federal workforce thinking like they do) will fall into place once they control the White House and Congress.

People in the US have NO IDEA what they’re advancing when they vote Democrat or sit out an election because so-and-so is a RINO and will only have themselves to blame when the Chinese come over 50 years from now and document the horrific things that Americans did to each other.

And never forget, it could not EVER happen in Germany back then, as most Jews thought at the time when they thought Hitler was nothing but a loudmouth.


19 posted on 01/23/2025 6:27:42 AM PST by BobL
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Wikipedia: “The camp was originally intended to intern Hitler’s political opponents.”

Like J6ers in the DC jail.


20 posted on 01/23/2025 6:42:37 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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