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Holocaust Day Today
80 years ago today the death camp that was Auschwitz/Birkenau was liberated. Never to be forgotten - never to ge repeated. May those poor tortured souls rest in peace.
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In a post on X, he says the Holocaust must "never be repeated, yet, sadly, the memory of it is gradually fading".
"We must not allow forgetfulness to take root. And it is everyone's mission to do everything possible to ensure that evil does not prevail."
//One thing that we all noticed was the absence of birds and their songs//
We've been to mseveral camps and this seems to be common to all of them. The first one we visited was Mauthausen, in Austria. OPur daughter was about 10 at the time (now late 50's) and she says she still remembers the lack of wildlife there.
Never to be forgotten, ( forgotten all ready) never to be repeated, er....
except in Goma, Darfur, Gaza ( of course, God the return of the Gazans looked looked like the crossing of the Red Sea)
a Million dead at Auschwitz - what about the other five million ? - Or the extra 6 ( non Jews) ?
Russia saying - we lost 29 million ( down to 23 million yesterday) and no one gives a toss
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I notice the slashers have been slashing for un-mimsiness
I am thinking of John Fletcher today, the only known Dundonian to have perished at Auschwitz.
He was refused joining up and so was a non-combatant, and would be interned and not a POW.
He wd NOT be protected by the Geneva Convention.
Aushwitz had a labour camp ( where it seemed Fletcher ended up). The British has already threatened to shoot anyone who sent a Brit to a concentration cmp ( not a POW camp) - and there was a POW in Colditz whose only qualification was - he was a Jew. (Usual qualification for Colditz, multiple escapes).
My father had a (German NCO) finger waggled at him after a run in with the Commandant - ( he had addressed him as " du" - very rude, in public) - "there are very much more unpleasant places we can end you!"
There WAS a prog about a very famous new presenter's father who was - - an interned merchant seaman. They had their own camp system. ( blue unis, enough food, no random shootings) passed off as God knows what.
History being rewritten before our very eyes to re-interpret the facts as we now see them
I notice Mauthausen - (NOT a death camp) has been mentioned
Here is one who almost got there
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If you lookat Wiki Mauthausen
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and scroll down to "postwar liberation "
you will see a banner "los espanoles anti fascistas...." ( Spanish deportados 1939 ended up in Mauthausen 1945, - very unlucky deportados)
History again being re-written before our very eyes, to suit the facts as we now see them - suitably moderatede by our very wise mods I point out