I recommend that everyone takes the time, trouble and expense to visit Auschwitz at some point. It is just outside the lovely city of Krakow, which is a good place to wash away the pain of what you see.
It is horrifying - the whole "Arbeit Macht Frei" on the gates, the piles of luggage, glasses, human hair - take a tour through the camp, see the ovens where the bodies were roasted - and if you look among the tall grass - the flecks of human bone are still there on the ground.
The Germans are in no position to lecture anyone. They should be grateful we didn't destroy them completely. We had every moral right to do so.
Regards, Ivan
More than a moral right, it was an obligation. I'm half German and suspect in another 20 years by the time the Germans get through re-writing history, we will have attacked them unprovoked.
"In the end, it came down to revenge. Revenge for wives, children, siblings, parents, friends, and complete strangers; revenge for murders and rapes; revenge for villages destroyed and fields salted; and, eventually, revenge just for the sheer joy of it. The Germans call 1945 'The Beating Down.' The best argument for Russians being basically kind-hearted and decent as a culture is that they didn't kill every single German in the Soviet Occupation Zone after the war."
The overpowerful sense of evil could be felt in every step, with every room full of exhibits...