Holocaust memorial day, Monday the 27th January

Over 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, but also gypsies, disabled people, homosexuals and political activists.

Not only did so many die, but the legacy lives on in the survivors, many of whom have had blighted lives due to the horrific events that they experienced.

This atrocity must never be allowed to happen again.

Parents
  • And perhaps you'd like to look at this website Paull, if you want some evidence:

    http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007271

    You are forgetting that the *** documented their own atrocities meticulously, here is a quote from the above link:

    "In addition to official photography and films produced at the behest of the Nazi state, German soldiers and police took numerous photographs and film footage of German operations against Jews and other civilians. They documented the public humiliation of Jews, their deportation, mass murder, and confinement in concentration camps. This became powerful visual evidence of Nazi war crimes submitted at Nuremberg. For example, Allied prosecutors submitted the so-called “Stroop Report,” which included as an appendix an album of photographs taken on the orders of SS and Police Leader Jürgen Stroop to document his destruction of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in spring 1943. According to Stroop's own calculations, his forces captured more than 55,000 Jews and of these, killed at least 7,000 and sent 7,000 more to the Treblinka killing center.

    Three key perpetrators gave evidence directly related to the Holocaust: Hermann Göring, the highest official of the Nazi state tried at Nuremberg, testified openly and frankly about the persecution of German Jews from the rise of the Nazi party to power in 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939; Otto Ohlendorf testified directly about his unit, Einsatzgruppe D, killing 90,000 Jews in the southern Ukraine in 1941; and the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoess, testified frankly about the gassing of more than a million Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center during the war. All three claimed that they carried out the legitimate orders of the state."

    There were of course survivors who were able to tell horror stories of what they experienced and saw, as well as independent evidence.  You have a very skewed perception of events and there is evidence as to the numbers of innocent people tortured and murdered.  That's not war and it's not about gangs clashing, it's abduction, persecution/torture, enforced slave labour and murder.  There is no way you can word that to be war.

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  • And perhaps you'd like to look at this website Paull, if you want some evidence:

    http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007271

    You are forgetting that the *** documented their own atrocities meticulously, here is a quote from the above link:

    "In addition to official photography and films produced at the behest of the Nazi state, German soldiers and police took numerous photographs and film footage of German operations against Jews and other civilians. They documented the public humiliation of Jews, their deportation, mass murder, and confinement in concentration camps. This became powerful visual evidence of Nazi war crimes submitted at Nuremberg. For example, Allied prosecutors submitted the so-called “Stroop Report,” which included as an appendix an album of photographs taken on the orders of SS and Police Leader Jürgen Stroop to document his destruction of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in spring 1943. According to Stroop's own calculations, his forces captured more than 55,000 Jews and of these, killed at least 7,000 and sent 7,000 more to the Treblinka killing center.

    Three key perpetrators gave evidence directly related to the Holocaust: Hermann Göring, the highest official of the Nazi state tried at Nuremberg, testified openly and frankly about the persecution of German Jews from the rise of the Nazi party to power in 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939; Otto Ohlendorf testified directly about his unit, Einsatzgruppe D, killing 90,000 Jews in the southern Ukraine in 1941; and the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoess, testified frankly about the gassing of more than a million Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center during the war. All three claimed that they carried out the legitimate orders of the state."

    There were of course survivors who were able to tell horror stories of what they experienced and saw, as well as independent evidence.  You have a very skewed perception of events and there is evidence as to the numbers of innocent people tortured and murdered.  That's not war and it's not about gangs clashing, it's abduction, persecution/torture, enforced slave labour and murder.  There is no way you can word that to be war.

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