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Omaha Steve

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Fri Jan 27, 2023, 09:01 AM Jan 2023

Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war

Source: AP

By VANESSA GERA37 minutes ago

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten.

The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which was under the occupation of German forces during World War II and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.

In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.

Today the site, with its barracks and barbed wire and the ruins of gas chambers, stands as one of the world’s most recognized symbols of evil and a site of pilgrimage for millions from around the world.





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Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2023 OP
What's even more disgusting about this anniversary... Initech Jan 2023 #1
we do love killing each other, still haven't learned not to. Power and control republianmushroom Jan 2023 #2

Initech

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1. What's even more disgusting about this anniversary...
Fri Jan 27, 2023, 12:47 PM
Jan 2023

Is that Kanye is hanging out with white nationalist shitheads and inspiring white supremacist acts of terror. This is not good and it should absolutely be denounced.

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