Auschwitz

[Cleve van Leef]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yep0l5545t

A day to reflect how lucky we are not having to go through a war.

Man is the animal.

[Steve the Tea]

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Man's inhumanity to man.

May we remember to never forget.

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[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Man's inhumanity to man.

May we remember to never forget.

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We have a duty never to forget the horrors that happened to people just because they were different. It's a lesson many still need to learn now.

[ToTaL ITK]

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If you have been there! it is a horrific place. How anyone could hate people this much i'm not able to understand.

[MacAdder]

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Some great coverage on BBC fair play with some powerful speeches with some scary statistics.
The youth must be educated better and the far right crushed.
The damage social media platforms does cannot be overstated and turning a blind eye for the sake of business wealth makes us all complicit.

[JamesWales]

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The Holocaust has horrified me and been an interest ever since I read Schindlers Ark (which became the truly excellent film Schindlers List) in year 10.

It is unimaginable. What perhaps is most remarkable is how lucky the survivors were. To survive the ghettos and the transportations, then to survive the initial selections and then life in Auschwitz.

I think it's also worth stating that those bound for Auschwitz and other concentration camps were the comparatively lucky ones as they weren't death camps. Treblinka, Sobibor and the like were places where all bar a tiny tiny minority survived no more than an hour or two.

The uprising at Treblinka is one of the most inspiring and fascinating stories of the entire war. There is a documentary on Treblinka here. Its as bleak as our humanity has ever been but it's an incredibly engaging watch and I think we all have a duty to remember in our own ways.

https://youtu.be/x-lKa35g7hA?si=K38En3df59xw8GLZ

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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It really is hard to believe what humans are capable of doing to fellow humans.

Works of fiction can, I've found, give a moving portrayal of the horrors of life in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, even though they're not always 100,% accurate. Schindler's List, as already mentioned, but also the film Life is Beautiful and the books The One Man and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

[goats]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yep0l5545t

A day to reflect how lucky we are not having to go through a war.

Man is the animal.

Unfortunately Europe is suffering war again brought on by a Hitler esque loon

[xsnaggle]

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If you have been there! it is a horrific place. How anyone could hate people this much i'm not able to understand.

Belsen is the same

[Dave Blue]

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It’s difficult to comprehend that there are politicians and other influential people who are hoodwinking ordinary people down the same path in this day and age.

[Swiss Peter]

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It really is hard to believe what humans are capable of doing to fellow humans.

Works of fiction can, I've found, give a moving portrayal of the horrors of life in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, even though they're not always 100,% accurate. Schindler's List, as already mentioned, but also the film Life is Beautiful and the books The One Man and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

I'd add Zone of Interest to that list.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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I'd add Zone of Interest to that list.

Not read that one - I'll check it out.

[Des Parrot]

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Auschwitz & Hiroshima, indescribable places.

[William Treseder]

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The fate of many, is guided by the hands of few.
99% of the worlds population are peace loving people, but we witness war after war, generation after generation.

[William Treseder]

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About to watch the Tattooists son on Sky History.