Holocaust day.

[Dennis H]

I"m very sorry about your losses Hemi. Never forget that these Nazi bastards as well as other factions of murder are alive and well. We don't have FDR, Churchill, Eisenhower,Truman,Patton,McArthur and a whole crap load of others to lead the next fight for life. when I grew up as a kid it seemed that damned near all of our Fathers/men in town were in the war and in that space in time we received an education that I not sure has been equaled, seems like yesterday to me but now I am old/broken down and telling my grandsons.

Wow, so true. Well put.

 

[Auggie56]

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

Had an uncle that was a medic in Patton’s Army, he went in to first concentration camp they liberated; never talked about it to anyone.

In my younger years I saw too many pictures from the camps and battlefields that are still burnt into my memory.My memory is getting much worse but mostly short term.

 

[Hey-O]

My family is all Germany. My mom told of stories of talking to neighbors one night and the next day they would be gone. Ask no questions or you would be next. She lost many friends and her boss who owned the store she worked at. The greatest day for them was when the American army came down the street to liberate them, the Germans, from Hitler. That's why we came here. Great people in a great country. I am forever grateful!!!

 

[oldbee]

In my younger years I saw too many pictures from the camps and battlefields that are still burnt into my memory.My memory is getting much worse but mostly short term.

Thank goodness my memory, long term, is good also!

 

[Bladecutter]

I also lost most of my family to the Holocaust. My maternal grandparents and paternal grandfather were killed in the Warsaw Ghetto. We don't know exactly how. My paternal grandmother, 2 aunts and an uncle were killed in Auschwitz. One aunt survived and she is still alive at 96 today. I also lost about a hundred other relatives killed during the Nazi's reign of murder. My parents both were able to escape and survive in the war zone and my father fought against the Nazis with the Polish and Russian armies.

It burns me up when I hear idiots denying the Holocaust ever occurred. I grew up with no grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
My parents were witnesses to what occurred. I know what happened.

NEVER AGAIN !!!!!

Sorry, & with You Abe.

 

[Bladecutter]

Although not Jewish, my mother and grandmother ( Polish Catholic ) survived Auschwitz. Her father survived Dachau. Her brother and the rest of her family did not survive the war. Coronet68mx- Thanks for reminding us.

Sorry Sir.

 

[NJRR]

Sorry, & with You Abe.

Thanks Jimmy. It's hard for people to relate to the actual experience of growing up with no extended family ( grandparents, aunt, uncles, cousins) and knowing they were all murdered. Even my own kids relate differently because they grew up with what i and my siblings didn't.

 

[Bladecutter]

My Father helped clean up(please excuse the terminology, no graceful way to say it)Dachau. The vibe that transcended when He related the experience, with few words, was earth shaking, scary, repugnant, freakish.
I believe the Holocausts are the worst manifestation of sheer evil in our known history. There were 6 million Jewish People lost but also another 6 million People of other races & lifestyles that Hitler deemed unfit to live. Stalin was another demon that extinguished even more Lives.
If We let Freedom fail & allow a police state, it will set the stage for history to repeat itself. Say NO to nanny state bullshit ALWAYS. ALWAYS question authority.....NEVER overly trust.....no matter how paranoid one may be, one may not be paranoid enough.

 

[snakeyes]

I also hang out on another site there are some of the finest photographers I`ve seen there and some of there images` hope this does not offend anyone here these photos are from this years memorial at Auschwitz Memorial Birkennau Concentration Camp first photo Camp Housing Unit #1

2nd photo Housing Unit #2

3rd photo Housing Unit #3

 

[snakeyes]

the photographer later changed the color images to Black and White they change the image

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

We can't change history although some think taking down statues that are hundreds of years old is ,,,,OK

 

[snakeyes]

These are taken at Auschwitz Concentration Camp Kralow Poland 1st is a housing unit as soon as you enter the complex this is the building where processing took place

the following is the Electric Fence at Auschwitz

block 10 was cellblock at Auschwitz Concentration Camp where women and men were used asexperimental subjects for German Doctors expertments in Block 10 ranged from skin testing raction .

Block 11 The Death Wall firing squads executed prisoners and Soviet POW s in the gravel pits

SS Guard Tower where they conducted roll call

 

[coronet68mx]

These are taken at Auschwitz Concentration Camp Kralow Poland 1st is a housing unit as soon as you enter the complex this is the building where processing took place View attachment 712241the following is the Electric Fence at Auschwitz View attachment 712242block 10 was cellblock at Auschwitz Concentration Camp where women and men were used asexperimental subjects for German Doctors expertments in Block 10 ranged from skin testing raction .View attachment 712243 Block 11 The Death Wall firing squads executed prisoners and Soviet POW s in the gravel pits View attachment 712244 SS Guard Tower where they conducted roll call

Thank you for your time to post this impressive pictures and the explanation of them.

 

[snakeyes]

thanks but the photographer that had taken the trip and spent time there is the guy I just posted them so all who havent been there or seen these places could , couldnt even begin to feel the way these people must of felt going through this times in there lives

 

[Basket case]

many don't know some of our own service men were sent to the camps and murdered. Never Forget.

 

[snakeyes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

 

[Hey-O]

My father was drafted into the German army at the age of 17. My father told of having to go to propaganda rallies and stood 150 feet away from a man that promised, churches, jobs, peace through strength, a car for the people and schools. He sounded at first as if it was all about the people. Both my parents along with millions in the 30's thought he was all about the people. It didn't take long, according to my mother, that this man was out of control and after taking Poland after signing a pack with them, most now knew they had been had. The war was on and my parents knew it was to late, nothing would ever be the same again. This man at this point now ruled through fear and to resist would lead to the death of those and to make sure their families would follow the same fate. As I said before, people disappeared and reality came home to roost. It's hell to fight and know it's wrong, but that's what happened. Millions of Germans were made fools of and many good people would go on to die. My mother and father spent most of their life's being ashamed of all of this. My father was born in what ended up being East Germany. After the war the communist wanted my father to work in the uranium mines. My grandfather asked if they would wait till after his birthday. They fled that night, all of them, no one could stay behind for fear of death. The wall wasn't up yet, they ran through fields as they shot at them. They made it to west Germany where my father met my mother and the rest is history. My father also worked for the Americans and British in the Berlin airlift. My father showed me a letter he received from communist occupied East Germany that stated that he was to be shot on sight for the desertion of the communist party, escaping, if he ever came back. After the wall came down in 1991 my father received a letter stating he was now entitled to the family land and house they left behind. They lost their moving business also. My father went back to his home town and met the people that were given my Grandparents and or my fathers home. He said he couldn't take it back, that they had lived there since the end of the war and said two wrongs didn't make a right, he walked away. This was all brought on by a man that was going to give, give, give. Everything on both sides of my family was either bombed to the ground or taken and all the millions of people who died because of this man. My father died 3 years ago this coming May and my mother died last week. Say what you will, they were good Germans and very proud Americans!!........ Rest in Peace.

 

[Skytrooper]

My uncle Howard helped liberate Ohrdruf concentration camp. This is the one that Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley came to and saw the horrors first hand. I never had the chance to hear Howard's recollection, as he was KIA a week later.
I have been to Dachau and the holocaust memorial in Berlin. They are very sobering