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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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in feelings it gains rather than loses in stability when it is subjected to strong factual arguments in opposition. For if it were accepted as a result of argument, the refutation of the argument might shake the solidarity of the conviction; but when it rests solely on feelings, the worse it fares in argumentative contest, the more persuaded it adherents are that their feelings must have some deeper ground, which the contrary arguments do not reach; and while the feeling remains, it is always throwing up fresh entrenchments of argument to repair any breach made in the old.
John Stewart Mill
Merely to be there, twenty-five years after its liberation, was a nightmare from which I could not awaken.
Standing in a barrack, staring out at the yard, I was afraid to turn around. I feared that the nightmare was real and my life an illusion, that I would find myself among inmates there.
My life changed there...then.
I still have a hard time believing that it was real and not a nightmare.
Auschwitz was Dachau times a hundred.
The “Why We Fight” episode of Band of Brothers, was a very powerful episode.
And to think that the camp Easy Company liberated, was a relatively small camp compared to the others.
Do those responsible for imprisoning the J6 protesters have any significant civil litigation exposure?
The "enlightenment" completely destroyed the idea that religious truth is true in the same way mundane truth is true. G-d was relegated to Never Never Land while most of life has been lived in "the real world." Ironically, this separation of religion from the rest of life is often invoked as the only way to protect Jewish religious freedom. Internally Judaism remains as Theocratic as ever, while externally Jews have learned to speak the language of the "enlightenment" to justify their right to worship.
Yet Jew hatred is different from any other on earth, and that is because G-d is real and they are the Chosen People. Only Theocracy, a word from which most Jews cringe, will end this. Only the universal acknowledgement of HaShem as the One and Only G-d will put an end to it. But the entire west--including, unfortunately, most Jews--will continue to find a secular solution so the "real world" may continue on its merry way with no G-d to tell people what to do.
"Restoring the American republic" is not the answer. 1789 isn't the answer. The only answer is the literal Kingdom of G-d, ruled from Jerusalem by the restored Davidic monarchy.
I never went there. Dachau was enough.
Went to Dachau in 1977, It was a very foggy soft rainy day, standing near the Guard Tower, entrance. It was surreal like I was transported back in time. Very spooky. It was a grisly reminder of total inhumanity. The ovens the gas chamber the long wall pot marked, used to lineup and shoot prisoners. Standing in front of the sign Arbite Macht Frei. It was a life altering experience.
I have often wondered if something like this could ever happen again, but it already has. The number of aborted babies is the evidence. As far as this happening against adults & children as it did in Germany, well I suppose that might depend on when Christ calls his Church home as in the Rapture & what will accompany that in the resulting time of Tribulation on the earth.
I still do not understand it. I have tried.
This is one reason why I have struggled to understand it.
I lived among the German People only 25 years after the liberation of Dachau, Auschwitz, et al. Witnessing their humanity, their brotherhood with all the other people of the world, only baffled me even more.
So far I have concluded that the human mind cannot comprehend it; at least, mine cannot.
I have also sworn an oath never to be a part of anything like that, even in a small way, regardless of the consequences to me.
Him and some of the guys in his unit went to Dachau.
He said the whole time they were, about almost two hours he said himself and his buddies had this weird feeling of some, as he put ‘’weird force’’ was trying to get at them, he said it what ever it was making them all really apprehensive .
They didn't stay more than two hours and left.
He said to me “You couldn't get me to ever go back to that place for a million bucks.
Sounds exactly like how I felt while there.
The irony is that Germany will not allow homeschooling so every child is subject to their socialist indoctrination. As we all know, socialism/communism/fascism are all cut from the same cloth when it comes to a totalarian mindset.
Really? Wow.
My friend also said ‘’You could still smell burnt flesh’’.
He also said “You could see faint scratch marks on the walls were people tried to claw their way out’’.
Yes.
It was at Birkenau about a mile away from Auschwitz where the real killing was done.
They had four crematoriums there going full blast night and day.
“To educate the mind and not the morals is to educate a menace to society’’.- Teddy Roosevelt.
In my opinion, the Holocaust is probably the main driver in the increase in Atheism after the war, especially among people who identify as Jewish. People who learn about it, have to ask the question, If there is a God, where was he?
I didn’t smell anything, but the scratch marks were there.
Yeah. Where was God on 9/11?
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