I couldn't imagine driving up to find something like that.

She was there for a year.
Never again.

He is very elderly, completely gone mentally now. Dementia has taken his mind. He was a wisecracking Dutch version of Stan Lee. A fanatic soccer fan, he once accompanied the Dutch national team to a match in Poland and made a side trip to Auschwitz. I asked him why in the world he would ever want to go back there? He said he wanted to stand in front of that "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate and say out loud, "I'm still here, and you're not." And so he did.

my french teacher in high school had numbers on his arm from one of those places.
I always showed him the upmost respect when I saw his arm.
He usually wore long sleeves but that day, it was warm and he had his sleeves rolled up.
shivers

That how I feel when I see the face of the native American they are still here, after centurys of exploitation disease, murder, slavery. There is beauty in resilience

Thank you.

'78 or '79 I think? For the first time I mean.

Wow, some interesting conversations ensued, especially between former SS and their kids. It sure wasn't boring.

Our conservatives/repubs are so proud that their Nazis had a permit to march in Charlottesville.

Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07

In light of the current rise of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, I fear for the future.

Here in Germany, every schoolkid is descended from some who was involved somehow, one way or the other. No one is allowed to forget or claim ignorance.

My girls remember their German grandfather, who only had one leg. The other one was blown off when he was drafted off his family farm, and sent as a 17/18 year old to Stalingrad as cannon fodder. That he survived at all was a lucky break. He was used to working in the cold on his farm, so even with half his leg blown off, he was able enough to move so retreating members of his unit saw he was still alive, where the city boys in his unit had all frozen to death. Their German grandmother still tells of her father, risking the death penalty by listening to British radio during the war. Their neighbor, a Nazi, threatened to report him, but never did. After the war, he begged my MIL's father not to denounce him, reminding him that when the shoe was on the other foot, he chose not to send his neighbor to the firing squad. The favor was indeed returned.

No one in the States had to fear THAT kind of repression, and so our neo-Nazis don't really have the slightest clue what they are celebrating.

What you don't know about history - repeats itself.

The town of Srebrenica comes to mind....

But education makes a huge difference!

Taught everywhere for sure.

The Soviets have never received the credit they deserved for the liberation of those two Polish towns.