Posted on 04/29/2018 7:21:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
When I was stationed in Japan I discovered that swastikas were decorations on some of the older Japanese temples. The guides at these temples claimed they stood for infinity, or something like that.
“Work sets you free.”
Not my words.
Was there in 2007. Got on the train in Munich which took us right to Dachau (the town).
My understanding is that the camp is a required field-trip for the school kids in the Munich area.
Upon further inquiry, to correct my memory, I found that in Buddhism the swastika stands for good luck or well being.
It was all pure slave labor, the idea was to work them to death and produce armaments such as V2s.
Even though there was sabotage, it more or les worked.
Wasn’t Dachau the model prison camp the Germans used as a show and film them having a pretty good life for the Red Cross?
You're thinking of Thereisienstadt, which was located in Czechoslovakia.
#42. The “swastika” symbol of angular bent lines was also Buddhist and possibly Hindu in origins. I saw them on old graves in So. Vietnam in the Mekong Delta and possibly on some buildings in Taipei.
Nothing sinister about them until the Nazis appropriated them.
Saw it in about ‘68. I was just a kid but it really affected me. It was very disturbing but I learned that people are capable of incredible evil and I never forgot it. Coupled with schools that taught us the true horrors of fascism, dictatorships and totalitarianism vs. the American way, I’m sure it sealed in my mind why this country and our heritage is worth every effort to preserve.
They don’t teach that these days. They are erasing it all from collective memory. Which means it is very likely to happen again in some fashion. What a damned shame that is.
Around 1967, when I was 13, my Dad was stationed in Germany. Once summer he took us on a history tour of Germany and surrounding countries. Dachau was one of the places we visited. Left a lasting impression on me.
As horrible as Auschwitz was, and it was indeed horrible, there was a modicum of hope, if it can be called that in that if you were fit enough and determined to stay alive you had a chance if you could be put to work. At Treblinka there was no hope at all, for the fit or the sick and weak. Treblinka existed for no other reason then killing. It was straight off the cattle cars and straight to the gas.
Thanks for the correction. I remember seeing a soccer match, people working with crafts, people having fun. They said that by the time the film was released, all the people shown in it were already dead.
I believe the actual death toll at Dachau was around 60,000. Even after it being liberated there were many inmates who were too sick and weak and simply died.
Yes, we are seeing history repeat itself because the vast majority of Left-leaning idiots are ignorant. For now, it just cool to be out there protesting against the Jews. In Germany a Jew cannot walk around with a kippa anymore, despite the “Multi-cultural” march...
Dachau, the town, voted heavily against Hitler back when voting still happened. So it was like making Freepers go tour Obama’s mess.
I was there about when you were there under similar circumstances. I was a tough dude but coming out my eyes were wet. What a horrible place. Did you see the pile of shoes? Anyone that worked there should spend eternity in the worst hell imaginable. The victims should live on feather-beds in Heaven.
Yup, exactly the same here. It was my first visit to Dachau in 1968 and I saw a German woman walking down the street looking for all the world like she was actually afraid the carload of GIs (that's us) would ask her where it was. Must've been a common occurrence on her way to the Nazi meeting down the street. So I pulled over and asked, "Wo ist Dachau, bitte?" Boy, did that ever p*** her off! We couldn't have been half a mile away, but she wasn't about to help us. If you ask me, we let the Germans off waaaay too easy after WWII. They've never demonstrated the least bit of genuine contrition for the millions of innocent lives they took.
Indeed
I’ve thought that Jewish liberals should have to visit these camps
Maybe then the evils of unchecked centralized government headed by false political idols might sink into their heads
You know, camps liberated by those mostly Christian boys? Disproportionately from Flyover Country?
Yeah, those people
One of my brothers was a German POW and that camp was forced to walk several miles to a railhead to be moved to another camp as the allies neared. Patton eventually liberated them near Berlin. He was a bombardier on a B17...
or the Big Red One, when Mark Hamill keeps firing at the German in the oven.
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