The SS "helpers" at Auschwitz

The only thing we have learned from history is we haven't learned from history

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. Fred Rogers

Each of my parents was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945. My parents met months later at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. They met & married there afterca very brief "courtship". My beother was born in the DP camp. They finally received immigration papers for the USA after 3 years of waiting there, gratefully!!!

It’s interesting how little people learn from history.

There’s something horrifying about seeing people smiling and having fun at one of the most evil places in history.

History always repeats itself until it’s resolved. Sadly, most people will not change.

The banality of evil. That photo album is the greatest historical document demonstrating that concept.

This is why empathy must be stronger than patriotism.

They documented EVERYTHING....yet deniers still exist

ther grew up in the depression. He was accustomed to seeing farms go vacant, with little or no warning. To his astonishment, and a guard at Nuremberg, he watched people testify that they never ever thought anything was amiss for entire neighborhoods going vacant. For those same homes being made available WITH other people's belongings, to high ranking officers. He saw people say "I noever thought about it" to seeing trains full of people rolling east. NONE coming back. ever. You can delude yourself of the truth, but, it never really become true, does it????

The most cruel people are not psychopaths but ordinary people who are good husbands, good fathers and good sons etc. They try to be a good member of the organization they belong to, and they will do their utmost to please tops of their organizations. After the war, they returned to their homes as good husbands, good fathers and good sons as they used to be. And many of them were prosecuted as criminals against humanity. We should remember that all of us could be like them.

My mother will be 89 Sunday and she had a German Jewish friend who was a Holocaust Survivor and lived downstairs from us in are apartment building back in the late 70s, and I remember the horrible story she told us , that she witnessed her parents murdered by the Nazis when she was only 7 years old let alone she had numbers tattooed on her arm, we didn't dare to asked her how she survived because we were so afraid it would traumatized her even more, but long story short Val that was her name ended up moving back to West Germany in the mid 80s.

They knew. They all knew.

Asking 'why?' ... be careful as the answers are not pleasant.

They're so happy next to the killings going on which makes it all the more bizarre and gruesome in a way.

How can we see these photos and not compare to what is happening today? People in uniform laughing at the torture and humiliation of others...humans are cruel animals.

My dad was liberated by the Russians. A soldier in the army.

And after you've been freed, you still have to live with the memory, in a world of people who don't learn history, and cannot empathize. So it happens again, and again..

Insanity at an insane level.

America should study these pieces of history very hard, because we're on our way there