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Eighty Years Since the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

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"For a long time, Lola Hassid Angel did not want to talk about the horrors of her childhood. Her experiences of the second world war had not been light: by the age of eight, the Holocaust survivor had “reached adulthood”, seen things she should never have seen, heard sounds she should never have heard, and been confronted by terrors she could neither forgive nor forget.

Which is why the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British forces on 15 April 1945 is as much a cause for joy as for the horror to come flooding back."

 

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  • Visited Sachsenhausen concentration camp in my teens in what was then East Germany. I'll never forget it. It was less than 40 years since the end of WW 2 and West Berlin was such an awesome place to e

  • Its amazing how you would desecrate this important topic with your political nonsense.

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    I visited a few years back. A very moving experience. Not forgetting thousands of  Soviet POW's who perished at another camp nearby.  

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In Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle he paints a scenario where the Allies lost WWII, and the US is divided in half by Japan and Germany.

In this world, Germany has two priorities they are rigorously pursuing, to the point of possibly bankrupting their country: colonizing outer space and continuing the Holocaust until complete eradication. He contrasts this with the Japanese who he depicts as curious and simpatico, and that they are quite aware that the reasons the Germans detest the Jews could easily be applied to them, and perhaps someday will be.

It's an easy read that involves a lot of thought.  No comment on the teevee movie they made a few years ago, as I didn't see it.

 

 

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