WW2 might be fun to chat over, but we should never forget the darker side. Today is the anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. Over 1 million people were killed here, simply because they were on the wrong end of Nazi ideology. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4210841.stm Has some rather horrific statistics & stories, that should never be ignored or forgotten.
"Man is a wolf to man" pictures it right. And when you see extreme right-wing movements popping around again, people trying to reinvent history, saying it was allied propaganda... Let's hope nothing like this happens again. Not much, but i can't think of anything else i can say to this, my english is not good enogh. Hell, not even my spanish is good enough for the task.
The Rememberence Day phrase "Lest we forget" seems equally appropriate today. :cry: "God rest their souls & forgive their tormentors" (with apologies to Athiests & Agnostics. No offence implied)
I watched the ceremony at Auschwitz on TV and I think a former prisoner, W. Bartoszewski summed it all up crying aloud a piece from the Bible: "O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place" (Job 16:18).
The really depressing thing is that the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda indicate that really we have learnt nothing from the Nazi genocide.
Well, as I am taught at university, history never literally repeats itself; the circumstances are always different. Therefore it isn't simply teaching people about the massacres the nazis commited that will stop people from commiting such massacres themselves. It is the best start we can make, however...
We shouldn't forget the people who were in Soviet camps (GULAGs). There were many Soviets, Finns and Germans and many of them didn't deserve that fate.
The number of people murdered in the USSR camps in WW2 was much higher than the number of murdered in the German camps. However none of the two where less cruel !! Both where raised with evil purposes intended. KBO
This will certainly be in people's minds all over the world when they remember concentration camps of whatever nation... The deep, dark end of the twentieth century.
