Posted on 04/29/2018 7:21:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Visited Dachau about 30 years ago on a dreary,depressing winter day.I was at a loss for words then...just as I am now.
Never understood the idea of having political prisoners making armaments...
I know a guy who was there, who says it was the other way around. He was with the 42nd, says they liberated Dachau proper and the 45th liberated a subcamp.
Might be surprised what you’d do to stay alive one more day.
I was stationed a few miles north of Dachau. Went to the camp a few times. Always an experience.
As they neared the camp, the Americans found more than 30 railroad cars filled with bodies in various states of decomposition.
This was about Buchenwald, but I always think of the Edward R. Murrow broadcast about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQkrLPJGM8
I also visited about thirty years ago and remain at a loss for words.
And imagine that as bad as Dachau was, Auschwitz was much, much worse.
I’m proud of our guys, they stopped with shooting the guards. It was fitting that the townspeople were made to bury the dead. I always feel as if a knife is stabbing through my heart when I read of these camps and the unbridled evil that caused them.
I’ve visited Dachau several times. Also Madjanek and Auschwitz. Truly chilling. And bewildering I might add. Industrialized murder. Why?
I visited Dachau in ‘71, I believe. When I walked through those gates something spiritual hit me like a wave. I moved to the side and sat down, thinking “how did this happen?” A guard came up to me and asked if I was ok; I nodded that I was. Later I talked to him and he said that happens to a few people every week.
Hatred and politics are a horrible mix. Now we can talk about the WHCD.
Here in 2018, 42nd Rainbow Division would mean something completely different.
Same here - visited Dachau in 1978.....left there feeling depressed and sad.....what was so funny was we were staying in Munich and when we asked how to get there, the Germans played dumb and acted like they didn’t know what we were talking about......quite an experience!
Ironic that both the Nazis and the 45th used the same symbol. Then the 45th changed to something more indicative of Oklahoma’s native American heritage.
The depictions in the movie;
Band of Brothers.
NO words.
And this is exactly what the hard-core proglibs espousing “tolerance and inclusiveness” would absolutely impose on true Christian conservatives given the slightest chance of success.
It is the in-common defect of their nature as humans.
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And they have the audacity to whine about Dresden.
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