Sundown tonight started Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Between 12 to 13 million people died in the concentration camps of the Third Reich, of which 6 million were Jews.
Holocaust deniers make me angry. My father, God rest his soul, liberated one of the death camps during WWII. He told me, on that day, he saw Hell. My father is not a liar.
Twice I have been to Dachau. It is a sobering experience. You go there and tell me nothing happened. You can't.
Pray for the souls lost in the camp.
And this inspires me to post one of my favorite videos.
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My Dad, too, helped to liberate a concentration camp. He was only 24 years old. He said that they went to the nearby German village and rounded up all of the people there. They made them march to the camp and look at what they had allowed to happen on their own doorstep. He said that the young men in his company were so angry that they pushed and even hit some of the people from the town. Contrary to what the revisionist history people say, my Dad (who fought all through the war) said that the regular soldier knew nothing whatsoever about the camps. It came as a complete shock to those young men and was something they never forgot.
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