Posted on 01/27/2009 6:44:05 PM PST by GSP.FAN
President Lech Kaczyński will today visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the largest Nazi concentration camp. The visit will commemorate the 64th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
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Yeesh, at first I mentally conjoined Obama’s Kumbayah Arab-TV broadcast and then assumed he visited Auschwitz and next thing you know my brain was severely twisted. And not in a good way.
Went there in ‘98. Words ABSOLUTELY fail me. :.(......
I thought this was an underplayed Obama story I hadn’t heard about. I was already beginning to wonder what kind of high-sounding cliches he could come up with about the Holocaust.
I thought this was an underplayed Obama story I hadn’t heard about. I was already beginning to wonder what kind of high-sounding cliches he could come up with about the Holocaust.
May I recommend the film Defiance starring Daniel Craig as a Jewish partisan in Nazi-occupied Bielorussia. A quality film.
Got it on my Netflix list.
i was there a year earlier...same comment...
The visit will commemorate the 64th anniversary of the camp's liberation conversion to a Soviet prison camp .
I went in 2005. By which time a lot of the national exhibits had been installed. The amazing thing was how much inter-country bickering there was. The Czech national exhibit more or less blames the Slovaks for the disappearance of Czekoslovakia’s Jews. The Slovaks blame the Hungarians, who to their credit take some blame, but take a few pot shots at the Rumanians. The Austrian exhibit actually says (in 3 languages) “we were victims too!”. The Russians didn’t get to install their exhibit, because it subsumed the deaths of Russian Jews into an overall number of Soviet deaths in WWII (most of which took place nowhere near Auschwitz). The Belgian one looks like it was designed by a committee of bored EU bureaucrats. The Italian one looks like it was designed by the children of some bored EU bureaucrats. The French and Dutch exhibits are actually quite good. Overall, however, the place is creepy and awe inspiring beyond belief.
Perspectives on it (as it stands today and is relevant to today) differ depending on where you live.
I went to Dachau in 1989. You can’t speak, you can’t laugh. Just remember.
That film rocked. I got angry and I cried.
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