Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was the darkest time in German history and we should do everything to ensure that this never happens again.
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was the darkest time in German history and we should do everything to ensure that this never happens again.
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Waiting for Russia and Israel to promote a Holodomor Day.
It is happening again. All the time. Just look at the experiments they do on animals and the way animals are enslaved and slaughtered. At the core, there is no difference between people who do such things on animals or humans. All of them lack mental clarity.
Nice comment thread.
One thing to remember is that the Red Army liberated the Extermination Camps, not just concentration camps. The Extermination Camps were located in Poland. This is an important day to remember and to make sure this never happens again. Survivors have pleaded to please not turn the commemoration of this day into political fighting. People fought and died to end this, lets respect that.
We learned nothing and we are failing to stop the eradication of several ethnic groups as you read this comment.
It’s already happening in China.
Seeing some of the comments in this thread is depressing. It remains essential that we continue to remember and educate others on what took place during the Holocaust and continue to try and ensure ‘Never Again’ means exactly that.
With the number of first-hand witnesses declining, we need to ensure that their experiences remain stories that can be shared to the next generation.
It was a dark time in overall European history, just because the Germans were the main perpetrators does not either absolve others of guilt or the principled meaning of this day – to fight against dehumanization of all ethnic, social, religious and cultural groups, to enshrine the core value of the right for humans to live free as they wish. There are countless nations on the planet right now where the people are either willing to stand by or just do not care about the murder of people (e.g. Russia willing to invade Ukraine), ethnic cleansing (e.g. China or Myanmar) or even our own internal issues in Europe, such as European ethnonationalism, myths of traditionalistic social norms being the savior of our cultures, our economic models radicalizing our people while not granting any alternative ways forward, or just outright imperialism. We are better than many countries, but we should hold ourselves to a much higher standard and learn from our mistakes.
Sadly I don’t think we’re willing to learn. We’re – Europeans – willing to, on the surface level, acknowledge the simplistic idea that mass murder is bad, but nothing more than that. The idiotic premises of ethnonationalism – of blood being some how the crucial factor in ones interaction with the world and our societies, of traditionalism – that societies are becoming ”degenerate” and multicultural, and we need to go back to a pre-modern way of living, and of adherence to economic dogmas – that we have somehow arrived at the peak best economic system and any challenge towards it should be treated as sacrilege, with ridicule or outright hostility – still remain and likely will remain strong, and under such circumstances I don’t believe we can avoid similar crimes against humanity. Maybe not to the same murderous extent, but it just begs the question how far will we go in certain fields.
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It’s happening right now, just different country different people
Amen
Live event today of the “Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau” at 16:00 CET
More info: [https://www.auschwitz.org/en/schedule-of-events-77/](https://www.auschwitz.org/en/schedule-of-events-77/)
The broadcast will be available on the YouTube page of the Auschwitz
Memorial in two language versions (with Polish and English translation)
…and the same Germany is supporting exactly that in China.
Its important to mention that not only the Germans were responsible for the horrors of the holocaust . my grandpa lived in Iaşi , Romania . And this happened .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia%C8%99i_pogrom
It was definitely encouraged by the Germans , but eventually it was executed by Romanian facists .
There is a nice quote in the article “…the silence of the majority makes it possible for a minority to destroy the world”
As far as forcing unwanted medical treatments we’re pretty close to rembering too well. Australia lead the way in other regards hahahahha
arent they ethnically cleansing the palestinians?
Nothing was learnt from it. Europe has already seen genocide happening and it was filmed. Yet our response was to reward the ones who committed the genocide. There are many croats and Bosniaks that can’t go back to their old villages. Lets not also forget Israel, ethnically cleanising an entire ethnic group to create their country.
And the best way to ensure that this never happens again is by enabling a fascist dictator that’s invading and annexing bits and pieces of neighboring countries, because gas & money >>>>> human rights and independent countries.
Yes, I am very incredibly disappointed in Germany.
Whoever editorialized the title did a terrible job. What does “it” and “this” refer to, the liberation of the concentration camp?