US Vice President Mike Pence makes his first Auschwitz visit

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

US Vice President Mike Pence makes his first Auschwitz visit
Vanessa Gera, Associated Press Updated 2:13 pm CST, Friday, February 15, 2019



United States Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence, left, walk with Poland's President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, right, during their visit at the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)


WARSAW, Poland – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited the memorial site of Auschwitz on Friday along with the Polish president and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, viewing a train car, crematoriums and the hair of victims that make it such a powerful testament to the evil that befell Europe in the last century.

It was the first visit for Pence, a conservative Christian, to the site where German forces murdered 1.1 million people, most of them Jews but also Poles, Roma and others, during the Nazis' occupation of Eastern Europe during World War II.

Pence and his wife Karen were joined by Polish President Andrzej Duda and first lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda.

"It seems to me to be a scene of unspeakable tragedy, reminding us what tyranny is capable of," Pence said hours later during an event Friday evening on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany. "But it seems to me also to be a scene of freedom's victory."

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[BlueIdaho]

1. Fuck Sakes

Don’t give him any ideas!!!

[agingdem]

4. He's walking in every Nazis' footsteps...

how disgustingly appropriate it is for Pence and his "kind"...

[olegramps]

8. He is picking up pointers on how to round up and get rid of homosexuals from the Nazis.

[agingdem]

2. My parents survived Auschwitz and Dachau

I don't want him there...

[NurseJackie]

3. He's marveling.

[LiberalLovinLug]

5. So many "fine people" defending the freedoms of the Fatherland died defending this place.

Is what he was thinking.

[Downtown Hound]

6. Probably taking note of construction details

for future plans.

[benld74]

7. Well Mother wanted that European vacation, better do it before Mueller says otherwise

[cactusfractal]

9. Pence overheard:

"I don't know what the big deal is. Work DOES set you free."

[LuvNewcastle]

10. "It seems to me to be a scene of unspeakable tragedy..."

That's some thought-provoking analysis, there.

[kwolf68]

14. That was a strange quote

"seems to me" is odd.

it does NOT seem to be, IT IS a place of unspeakable tragedy where HATRED of "the other" lead to sanctioned murder, attempted genocide and societal cleansing of the "inferior".

This tragedy was also preceded by nationalistic fervor, persecution of opposition political parties, attacks on higher education and the eventual replacement of media apparatus with state-run propaganda (we could say Fox News before Fox news existed).

[BlueIdaho]

20. Always leaving some room

For his christofascist fucking followers... Pence is 1000 times worse than the stumbling ignorant man child Trumpsky.

[msongs]

11. marveling at the handiwork of german conservative christians. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Hope they pointed out where the LGBTQ prisoners were kept and killed.

[kwolf68]

15. SNAP

Yep-gay people were absolutely put to death if they failed to hide things.

Doesn't that remind you of that asshole politician who said he'd drown his own kids if they turned out to be gay?

[QC]

23. Thank you. n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

24. Doubtful.

At both Dachau and Auschwitz, "homosexuals" were almost never mentioned. We fell into "other".

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Our guide at Auschwitz spoke at length about them.

[FreepFryer]

13. Fuck him. He knows what side he's on. (n/t)

[hatrack]

16. Getting some design ideas for what you'll do with the atheists and liberals?

"It seems to me to be a scene of unspeakable tragedy" - yeah, a veritable Elie Wiesel in overalls. Really perceptive, Mike.

[IcyPeas]

17. Jared Kushners grandparents survived the holocaust

the U.S. wouldn't take refugees then either.

[Harker]

18. He's planning multiple visits? n/t

[diva77]

19. Why is he there while Dump is declaring a national emergency?

[dflprincess]

21. I find his prescence there offensive

given his attitude towards LGBTQ people and his support of putting kids in camps. And what I would guess his feelings are about people who don't share his religious beliefs are.

[moondust]

22. "Are there cages? We prefer cages."

[flotsam]

26. What kind of fucking idiot describes a death camp

as " a scene of freedom's victory."

[Yeehah]

27. He woud gladly install a nazi-like government in the USA

The rotten republican party must be destroyed.