Auschwitz Survivors Mark Liberation Anniversary

[Stephen Retired]

I went there on a class trip when I was in high school. I expected to sense evil. Instead, all I saw were tawdry buildings.

The real horror is that places like this weren't built by demons. They were built by humans. Homo sapiens is an animal species, and, despite our lofty protestations, the savage is never far from the surface.

[yallerdawg]

1. "Arbeit macht frei"

The sign over the entrance to Auschwitz. "Work makes you free."

Whenever we think of what we could be, we should remember what we have been.

[Stargazer99]

2. despite your conservative rationalizations that America would never do this as the Germans

Many Americans have died from lack of medical care because they could not pay.....the poor and underclass are the "jews" of a Republican/conservative value system

[ReRe]

9. Hear Hear n/t

[Piasladic]

3. remembrance

Heartbreaking and satisfying at the same time. These men and women can say that they have see the worst of humanity and respond with true humanity.

[Stuart G]

4. ....

[A-Schwarzenegger]

8. !

[zebonaut]

6. Can happen too easily. Lock people behind fences and don't feed them. They will starve and die.

[onehandle]

7. The Tea Party would do this to Liberals in a heartbeat.

That's why they want all of those guns.