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Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 70 years ago
townhall.com ^ | 4/26/2015 | unknown

Posted on 04/26/2015 8:03:15 AM PDT by rktman

Holocaust survivors and officials gathered Sunday at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the camp 70 years ago.

The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by British soldiers who found more than 10,000 dead bodies when they entered the Nazi camp.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: holocaust; wwii
#1. Thanks you all who battled to save thousands of lives and had the fortitude to see it through to the final victory.

#2. Thanks to all who have served and those that serve today trying to maintain freedom. Sorry that you are constrained by ridiculous rules of engagement.

#3. Anybody recall which location the lyin' king's dad or grand-dad or somebody liberated? Uh, none.

1 posted on 04/26/2015 8:03:15 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Yes. Why, he liberated Auszwitz Birkenau. He was on the front lines.

I wonder which one of the two we remember today were liberated by Brian Williams?


2 posted on 04/26/2015 9:30:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: rktman
For those who haven't seen it.

Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust
3 posted on 04/26/2015 9:41:15 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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