a moment for reflection

[briggie]

today is the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz .
On January 27, 1945, the Russian army came upon Auschwitz and its various camps and subcamps.
What they found was terrible.
Afraid of anyone seeing what they had been doing in Auschwitz, the Germans went on a killing spree before the arrival of the Russians. They also tried to blow up the ovens where the murdered had been burned for years.
When the Russians arrived, they found corpses and 7000 starving prisoners.

 

[johnb5177]

Yet in 2017, we still see evidence of man's continuing inhumanity to man.......:nenau

"When will they ever learn"

 

[perelaar]

You are right, briggie - and we still see a lot of latent racism and violence happening around us.

Don't forget Auschwitz was just the top of the iceberg, there were literally dozens of camps...