Lest We Forget.

[amerikat]

Easy Company finds a nazi concentration camp.
WARNING . GRAPHIC and Sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422327029&v=sHcJtU9dr6I&x-yt-cl=84838260

[marym625]

1. Never Forget

[840high]

2. Thank you. I weep.

[amerikat]

3. I weep everytime I watch this one.

[JDPriestly]

4. Thanks.

I often have the sense on DU that many DUers have no concept of the horror of the Holocaust.

Many DUers just don't get it. There has never, ever, ever been anything so well organized, so brutal, so cruel, so horrific in the history of mankind that we know. And the horror was efficient and thorough and accomplished in a relatively short period of time.

Never again.

It makes Guantanamo look like a trifle although Guantanamo is shameful enough.

No crime has ever been so great.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. You are correct; they don't have any concept.

The Holocaust denying troll posting all over DU simply exemplifies a lack of knowledge and bigotry, but others, they simply do not even understand. This OP is a Hollywood example. I would love to post some ACTUAL footage from YouTube just so some could really see the abject horror, as well as the comments from those viewing said videos because it also demonstrates how easy it would be to perpetrate this horror again.

[tclambert]

17. I almost posted links to YouTube videos about Auschwitz and Dachau, but I couldn't.

If people want to look they can search YouTube themselves.

[paleotn]

11. In the rare occasions he would talk about it........

my father use to say that unless you've seen it, Buchenwald in his case, you can never fully grasp it. Dad was usually a calm kind of guy, but one thing that would make him absolutely livid were holocaust deniers. He knew it happened. He was there. It left a deep impression on a young 20 something GI from Tennessee. To your point, we're losing our understanding as Dad's generation fades away, and mine has grown kids and grand kids. I fear that in the near future, it will be as remote to us as the Civil War. Never, ever forget my dad taught us

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I saw the whole series, very powerful and well done, recommend it highly.

But these scenes probably got to me more than anything else...

[ReRe]

6. This is nothing compared to...

... some of the real actual documentary footage that I seen on HBO a couple nights ago, entitled "Night Will Fall." Look for it in the HBO listings. If you find it, make a note and watch it. DVD it to share with your friends and family. I'm telling you, "Night Will Fall" will change you.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Take a spin around YouTube.

That will curdle your stomach. The comments to the video clips make it somehow even worse.

[ReRe]

9. I won't look at the comments...

... I never do, because they are so hateful about the silliest of things. This country is filled with sickos, as evidenced in the popularity of "American Sniper." And, boy do they love to spew it.

[Behind the Aegis]

19. The comments there (and here) are a strak reminder of how far some will go.

It is very defeating and exemplifies how anti-Semitism is still as popular as ever, no matter its form.

[freshwest]

22. The footage of the camps I posted for you had among the vilest video responses I've ever seen.

It was exactly what literally happened, the real people, no actors, no music or anything. Just the people and places.

The videos 'rebutting' it were so blatantly anti-semitic they could have written by Nazis. It struck me while watching that film is that the smears leveled at the UK and USA for being allied with Israel could well be that the thing both countries have in common is they took the greatest amount of Jewish refugees of any nation

I've seen too much of the 'bankster,' 'Zionist' and 'NWO' CT smears that links Israel, the UK and USA and money (which is the Jewish moneylenders and world conspiracy meme) to not recognize the Protocols.

Those who push these ought to think about they're enabling.

[A Simple Game]

10. Just a couple of days ago I had 2 DUers tell me I shouldn't remember atrocities from the past.

They said 1967 was too far in the past and one even mentioned WWII as too far back.

[paleotn]

12. Unbelievable. ...

....67? I was a snotty kid, but I remember it.

[A Simple Game]

16. They didn't like me mentioning the USS Liberty for some reason. n/t

[paleotn]

20. Ah....well that one is a bit controversial.

....and the "that was too long ago to matter" retort is probably just a dodge.

[ProgressiveJarhead]

18. Or 1972

[tblue37]

13. Please change the subject line to "Lest we forget." That phrase means

that we do not want to forget.

"Lest we never forget" means that we want to make sure that we do forget.

[RoBear]

14. Thanks...

I was about to post a similar comment, but you said it better!

Now, can we do something about "I could care less"?????

[amerikat]

21. Done. Thank you.

I'm not the most articulate DU'er.

[The CCC]

15. Lest we never forget

WW2 had been over for 6 years when I was born. Both my parents fought against the NAZIS in that war. I will never forget.