Holocaust survivors mark 70th anniversary of Buchenwald camp

[Behind the Aegis]

BERLIN(AFP)---Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration
camp at the weekend marked the 70th anniversary of its construction with a call that the 56,000 people who died here during the Holocaust shall never be forgotten.

"Who will speak of the Nazi crimes, who will oppose the neo-Nazis and all those who trample on democracy and human dignity? Who will speak up when we are no longer there?" they said in a statement issued in Weimar on Saturday.

Elderly survivors, one of them a former Ukrainian prisoner who came dressed in a striped blue and white concentration camp uniform, on Sunday laid wreaths at the former camp outside the east German city.

"Totenbuch"


Buchenwald was founded by the Nazis on July 15, 1937 for the internment of Jews, Roma, political opponents and homosexuals.
Prisoners perished in the cold or starved to death and thousands were murdered. A large percentage of the victims remain nameless, while the identity of many others were only established in the past decade.

http://www.ejpress.org/article/18371

[Swamp Rat]

1. I watched a little of the "Gestapo" series and "Hitler's Family" today on the History Channel

"Death Book" indeed.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I saw that too...well, the ending.

I did watch "The Night of Long Knives" that followed the "Hitler's Family" segment. Very interesting!

[Swamp Rat]

3. Crap! I missed that.

Now I am curious.

While I watched those shows, I kept thinking how I would be eager to become a nazi hunter, as I lost family in Bobruisk.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. I looked it up.

No more showings here in NOLA for the next 14 days. :( But, it is the History Channel, so you know it will pop up again! I did find this: History Channel's The Night of Long Knives. Is it $12.48 good? Eh, it was a good program, but unless you are a real WWII buff, wait for it to re-emerge on the History Channel! :)