I am returning to an old article about the Holocaust, the Nuremberg Trials, the film
Judgement at Nuremberg in the wake of the attempted
Trump Coup of 6 January 2021 where his
Cult, led by
White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis, Neo-Confederates, Evangelical Christian Theocrats, unconstitutional and illegal “self-proclaimed militias,” True Believers of the QAnon Conspiracy Cult, were urged on by the former President, members of Congress, his family, and his personal lawyer to attack the Capitol. At the time Congress was meeting in its solemn task to finalize and certify the
Electoral College Vote to certify
President Elect Joe Biden, and
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President of the United States. The assault was the grossest violation of our Republic, Democracy, and Constitution in history, and it was done by Americans, many of whom were military or former military or law enforcement officers. Likewise, elected officials from several st
I am returning to an old article about the Holocaust, the Nuremberg Trials, the film
Judgement at Nuremberg in the wake of the attempted
Trump Coup of 6 January 2021 where his
Cult, led by
White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis, Neo-Confederates, Evangelical Christian Theocrats, unconstitutional and illegal “self-proclaimed militias,” True Believers of the QAnon Conspiracy Cult, were urged on by the former President, members of Congress, his family, and his personal lawyer to attack the Capitol. At the time Congress was meeting in its solemn task to finalize and certify the
Electoral College Vote to certify
President Elect Joe Biden, and
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris as the next President and Vice President of the United States. The assault was the grossest violation of our Republic, Democracy, and Constitution in history, and it was done by Americans, many of whom were military or former military or law enforcement officers. Likewise, elected officials from several st
Seventy-six years ago today the
Soviet Red Army’s 100th Division liberated the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were somewhere between 7000 and 9000 prisoners left in the camp when the Soviet soldiers liberated it. The camp’s crematoria had been destroyed as well as most of the gas chambers. The SS had evacuated most of the surviving inmates and slave laborers by forced march to railhead miles away from the camp, in order to take them to other Concentration Camps deeper in Germany;
Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck, and others.
Even though
Auschwitz was liberated, the Nazis continued to exterminate Jews at other camps. Likewise in vain attempts to cover up their crimes and keep killing Jews through forced labor conducted forced marches in freezing winter weather to keep them from being liberated. These marches were both deadly and inhuman. Even
Fostering true understanding of the Holocaust means changing how we teach about it
When we discuss Holocaust only through lessons that it can teach us, we turn it into a metaphor rather than an event to be understood, write Jody Spiegel and Naomi Azrieli.
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Discussing Holocaust only through lessons we can learn from it turns it into a poorly understood metaphor
Posted: Jan 27, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 27
Visitors stand beneath the gate of the Auschwitz 1 death camp in southern Poland, where 1.1 million died between May 1940 and Jan. 27, 1945, when Soviet troops entered the camp and liberated it from the Nazis. It is now a Unesco World Heritage site, maintained as a memorial to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.( Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images)