When I visited in the mid-90’s you could see multiple displays like this - shoes, suitcases, hair, glasses, rings, etc. The horror of what was done to people in these camps cannot be forgotten. You can even see the impressions of finger nail marks on the walls from victims in the gas chambers.
Evil is evil and history is tracking to repeat itself.
My grandfather wrote his mother a letter upon driving the chaplain into the camps in Poland and describes Polish victims "stacked like cordwood." He was 17 at the time and lied about his age to enlist.
There are a lot of people who agree Nazis are bad, but "bad" is such an abstract word to describe the depth of who these people were.
The Nazis were serial killers. Those chose specific victims. Murder was just Tuesday for them. They tortured people physically, emotionally, and sexually. Not just the adults, children too. They trained dogs to specifically attack and rip off women's breasts and men's genitals, especially those of gay men. They dismembered adults and children, alive without anesthesia, in the name of their scientific progress. Parents were forced to watch their children be shot or mauled to death. Entire families were ended overnight.
There's more I could list here, that I won't, because the atrocities are so heinous, they offend the moral fabric of being human. They will never be discussed in schools or mentioned in museums. Their brutality is truly beyond normal human imagination and almost beggars belief.
It's critical for current and future generations to realize what what it represents when someone waves a swastika or performs a Sieg Heil.
tumbleweedcowboy on January 27th, 2025 at 18:48 UTC »
When I visited in the mid-90’s you could see multiple displays like this - shoes, suitcases, hair, glasses, rings, etc. The horror of what was done to people in these camps cannot be forgotten. You can even see the impressions of finger nail marks on the walls from victims in the gas chambers.
Evil is evil and history is tracking to repeat itself.
niquattx on January 27th, 2025 at 19:01 UTC »
My grandfather wrote his mother a letter upon driving the chaplain into the camps in Poland and describes Polish victims "stacked like cordwood." He was 17 at the time and lied about his age to enlist.
Pingaring on January 27th, 2025 at 19:44 UTC »
There are a lot of people who agree Nazis are bad, but "bad" is such an abstract word to describe the depth of who these people were.
The Nazis were serial killers. Those chose specific victims. Murder was just Tuesday for them. They tortured people physically, emotionally, and sexually. Not just the adults, children too. They trained dogs to specifically attack and rip off women's breasts and men's genitals, especially those of gay men. They dismembered adults and children, alive without anesthesia, in the name of their scientific progress. Parents were forced to watch their children be shot or mauled to death. Entire families were ended overnight.
There's more I could list here, that I won't, because the atrocities are so heinous, they offend the moral fabric of being human. They will never be discussed in schools or mentioned in museums. Their brutality is truly beyond normal human imagination and almost beggars belief.
It's critical for current and future generations to realize what what it represents when someone waves a swastika or performs a Sieg Heil.