Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp
Drone video shows the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by Soviet troops. The camp in Poland is now maintained as a World Heritage Site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year. Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans during World War II. More than a million people - the vast majority of them Jews - died there between 1940, when it was built, and 1945, when it was liberated by the Soviet army.
Railway tracks into Auschwitz-Birkenau - Trains filled with victims from throughout occupied Europe arrived at the camp almost every day between 1942 and the summer of 1944.
Ruins of wooden huts at Birkenau - Birkenau (or Auschwitz II) was erected in 1941 solely as a death camp, the wooden huts are now in ruins with only brick fireplaces and chimneys remaining.
Entrance to Auschwitz I -The wrought-iron sign over the entrance bears the words Arbeit Macht Frei - "Work sets you free".
Auschwitz I - The brick-built buildings were the former cavalry barracks of the Polish Army.
Courtyard between blocks 10 and 11 at Auschwitz I - Block 11 was called "the Block of Death" by prisoners. Executions took place between Block 10 and Block 11 and posts in the yard were used to string up prisoners by their wrists.
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3. oliverjantar commented 9 years ago
4. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago
5. ughlah commented 9 years ago
6. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
But to cold bloodedly design and build a place like this and spend years and years systematically murdering men, women, children & babies everyday, well it is just unthinkable. And today we worry about a small group of pathetic terrorists dressed in black who shoot a few people and blow up the odd building! We ought to say *uck off we've had it so much worse
7. Pyranthos commented 9 years ago
That aside, I do agree with pretty much the rest of your post. It stirs anger to think what those people suffered at the hands of other people and the scale of it all. Its shameful, the level of hatred and disrespect toward fellow human beings, and life itself, that people can have.
9. snotraddict commented 9 years ago
#6 I was with you till the end of your thoughts with regards to terrorists. Don't under estimate nor discount these terrorists, this is just the beginning I believe.
10. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago
11. Judge-Jake commented 9 years ago
12. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago
13. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago
14. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago
15. ughlah commented 9 years ago
@kirkelicious: Coming from germany you should take a look at why this law was passed. Freedom of speech is something that is honoured very highly in germany, nowadays.
It's not like germans were the dumbest people in the world at that time or they just stupidly wanted to follow an austrian leader that had a dream of killing all jews. Over 50% of all scientific publications a hundred years ago were written in german. It is propaganda and lies that allowed the nazis to come to power. This is why this may never ever happen again and this is why this one topic is the exception to the freedom of speech.
Just one short example: The family Tietz are the first founders of malls in germany (Hermann Tietz founded Hertie, his brother Kaufhof), basically everything you want under one roof. They managed to give the customers more variety at lower prices and traditional german shop owners struggled. Poverty and hunger was a huge problem with high reperation payments and a worldwide financial crisis. No government stands in power for the full 4 years and you have nine election in 14 years (1919-1933), five of those in the final 5 years. Now the nazi propaganda blames the jews in form of the family Tietz for becoming richer and richer while traditional small german shops are driven into poverty. Then they start rewriting the events of the first world war, start blaming the jews for murdering christ. And if you had the guts to tell the truth, there was some nazis visiting you.
16. kirkelicious commented 9 years ago
A law, that exclusively protects the Jewish people in this way is a bit anachronistic, given the fact that if something similar to what you describe where to happen today in Germany, it would probably be directed against the German Muslims.
We will yet have to see if an unrestricted exchange of (mis)information will work especially in the age of social media, but i would be willing to give it a try.
-2 1. sux2bu commented 9 years ago
now it is still some of the Muslims that are still determined to do it.
http://arabisraeliconflict.info/arab-israel-facts/fact-6-palestinians-nazis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world