The liberation of Auschwitz: 27/1/1945, 80 years ago today
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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disclaimer: Photo obviously not from the very day of liberation, but from February 1945.
Taken from here, with more sad and interesting photos:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/27/world/gallery/auschwitz-liberation-anniversary/index.html
A date which should have united all parts, but which will see the divisions in today’s world
Lest we forget!
There are no word to describe this cruelty, this suffering, this violation of dignity, this wrongfulness, this failure of humanity. The least thing we can do is to remember and to do better today. We have to protect the unfortunate. It is our responsibility as human beings to reduce the suffering of other human beings. There is so much violence and suffering in this world today. Let us unite and do something. Let us not give up, even when it seems hopeless. Please be kind to each other as a first step.
Yesterday on French television, there was an interview of a lady who had survived the camps. She explained that when the survivors returned to France, nobody would believe them since the horrors they had been through were beyond imagination and that they were considered somehow suspicious since people were asking them: “Most of the other prisoners died over there, how come you survived? What did you do?”.
That same evening in the news, there was Musk sending a video message to the German fascist party, urging them to get rid of WWII guilt and to go ahead with their vision of Germany.
Look how backwards we have gone
In the grand scheme of time and history, this literally just happened.
And 80 years from that day, there are still people minimizing, questioning or denying the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis.
Memory is important, we can’t let this happen again.
As a German, I still can comprehend how something so inhuman like this could’ve happened here less than 100 years ago.
But looking at Eastern German or American voters, I understand how it started.
It took about 80 years ro forget
And when Musk sees this he thinks about all that unpaid work he could get in his factories.
The most disturbing thing is that we haven’t properly moved on from this, I feel like the fascists are looking for the next group that they can get away with discriminating against.
80 years later we have emptied that tragedy of its meaning.
The darkest moment in Europe’s self-destruction
I would ask to refrain from making this a topic of Israel. I am German, most of my family was not. This is a day of remembrance and not a day of more infighting.
This day is supposed to reflect on the death of millions of people, for no other reason than their religion or their nationality. One should think about how easy it is to hate and show empathy for those who got killed. Then think about how much hate exists for similar reasons in your country currently.
I saw that German flag was flying at half part of the flagpole at local army school in Dresden, I guess this is the reason why.
We thank the soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front for their contributions. It’s sad that this is now being used as a platform to talk about modern political events, specifically what is happening in Palestine (Israel).
See? Even they are doing the roman salute! Musk is a good guy /S
Never again. For once, we should learn from our past.
I wish I could find it right now, but somewhere with my collection of old photos and ephemera, I have a copy of a U.S. Army Air Corps leaflet that was distributed to German civilians immediately after the war. It contained images of partially buried corpses taken at mass burial sites and a caption saying something like “Good German Soil.” It was in German and English. My guess is that it was given out to shame the population and inform them of exactly what their government and army were responsible for.
If anyone knows more, please comment?
I remember doing my family tree on ancestry and my great-grandfather had a brother and parents who remained behind in Grodno, Poland when he came to America. And dumbass me was like “Oh let me trace them and see where they’re at now.” Turned out they all died the same day at Treblinka. Jan 18, 1943. The parents, the brother and his wife, and five of their six children. Made me feel so sick. :/
It is very strange that no one in the news says who exactly liberated the Auschwitz prisoners.
Yes, it was the Soviet army.
And yet the Americans are about to do it again.
Watch how ignorant fools will compare this to the war in Gaza.
Unfortunately there’s barely any communists to save us this time
One of the greatest, yet subtle examples of disobedience and of defiance against an oppressive and genocidal enemy: an upside down ‘B’.
Crazy that Poland went from a fairly multicultural country that was less than 70% Polish to what it is now. All a result of Nazi Genocide and Soviet population transfers. It’s not their fault, you can place most of the blame on the Germans and then the Russians for that.
But sometimes it gets lost…why they are what they are these days. Not including the ramifications for Palestine, this completely changed large parts of Central and Eastern Europe permanently and the effects continue today.
A lot of talk about homogenous societies, especially from that part of the world. But remember what it took for them to reach what they deem to be a good thing.
By Soviet Union
If only there were enough survivors of that monstrosity still alive so they could look in the eyes of their nephews and tell them “what in the hell are you doing!!?”.
Glory to the Liberators of the Red Army!
So, it seems that this Holocaust Remeberance day Europe chose to dedicate to critisizing of Israel. Israel that was dragged into a war after the most horrific massacre of Jews since (oh, the irony!) the Holocaust. Good job, Europe! I see a really bright future for you.
America just pulled it’s support for Ukraine. I remember when America used to fight for freedom and democracy.
How can people forget this horror? How can people make jokes about this? We are heading here again, next 15 years.
Sh&t that’s today!?