Forum: Why Auschwitz, other atrocities must stay seared into memory [View all]
By Cassie Davis / Herald Forum
It was the summer of 1944 and Adolf Hitler’s operations were running at full speed and his demented plan seemed to be going much more smoothly than the Nazis hoped … until it didn’t!
All throughout the world, the words Auschwitz, Hitler, death camps, Soviet and Churchill would be burned into the DNA of not just the survivors and fighters of WWII, but the younger generations as well in hopes of never letting such a thing happen again.
Three months before the Soviets found the atrocious Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi official who was part of Hitler’s extermination plan in WWII, played the move of halting the use of gas chambers and called for their destruction. Unfortunately for Himmler, the destruction was only partway completed.
On Jan. 27, 1945, as the Soviets were advancing toward the Polish town of Osweicim, they stumbled upon the most inhumane, unthinkable conditions that no human should ever have to be put through. Around 230 Red Army men were killed, as the Nazis knew right where they were heading.
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