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2005-04-15 Europe
Audio slideshow: The Liberation of Belsen
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Posted by Howard UK 2005-04-15 08:41|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If I'm remembering correctly, my dad's division (7th U.S. Armored) was attached to the British 2d Army at that time, and they overran part of the Belsen complex.
Posted by Mike  2005-04-15 8:48:16 AM||   2005-04-15 8:48:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike, please thank your father for me. I do believe I had relatives there as well as at Auschwitz.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-15 11:58:28 AM||   2005-04-15 11:58:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't forget that 1/2 of the 60,000 still living concentration camp prisoners were found so starved, diseased and abused that they died even after liberation.
Posted by ed 2005-04-15 1:54:16 PM||   2005-04-15 1:54:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 (I posted this earlier today at David's Medienkritik about the German medias tendencies.)

I am sorry that My country the US, the UK and, yes the former U.S.S.R., could not get to the Camps sooner. For that I am truly sorry. I think the Germans would do well to remember who stopped the mass murders and closed the German run death camps.

Any attempts to compare crimes against all of humanity to some current day actions of a few individuals, to these acts which were crimes planned, organized by and carried out in the name of the state of Germany, show the ignorance, insensitivity and immaturity of those that make them. Nothing more needs to be said.

Are todays German responsible for the death camps? Certainly not. They are however responsible for remembering them and not trying to attenuate the horrific nature of the Holocaust buy comparing it with anything else.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-15 2:24:12 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-04-15 2:24:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Last Sunday we commemorated the liberation of Buchenwald. I met a survivor of Flossenbürg and now, after 60 years, I might have some hints about the fate of my father.
In these days I could punch every Abu-Ghraib whiner in the face.
Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-15 2:36:40 PM||   2005-04-15 2:36:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 In these days I could punch every Abu-Ghraib whiner in the face.

To paraphrase the Bible:

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord.

They will get theirs TGA.
Posted by badanov  2005-04-15 2:54:22 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2005-04-15 2:54:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I shook hands once with a Holocaust survivor. It took me two hours to stop trembling.
Posted by Matt 2005-04-15 2:57:23 PM||   2005-04-15 2:57:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 it has to be badanov, it has to be
Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-15 2:59:08 PM||   2005-04-15 2:59:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Elie Wiesel (rough paraphrase):

Man invented the death camps. But man also entered the gas chambers erect, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Israel on his lips.
Posted by mom 2005-04-15 3:01:08 PM||   2005-04-15 3:01:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night."

Elie Wiesel
Posted by True German Ally 2005-04-15 3:12:31 PM||   2005-04-15 3:12:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 TGA, can you send me an email?
Posted by Seafarious  2005-04-15 4:23:22 PM||   2005-04-15 4:23:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 TW, will pass along the word when I see my parents on Sunday.
Posted by Mike  2005-04-15 4:41:07 PM||   2005-04-15 4:41:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 For information on names of about 3,000,000 people who died in the camps (roughly half the total and growing), go to: WWW.yadvashem.org. I don't know how to enter it as a link, so just run a search. Be prepared.
Posted by Weird Al 2005-04-15 5:18:44 PM||   2005-04-15 5:18:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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