The name of a small city, in Poland means *holy* in old Polish. Ironically, this ‘holy’ place would be where over 4.1 million people loose their life. I think the idea was that they are going someplace holy, both spiritually and physically.
While most people in the twenty-first century agree that Adolf Hitler was a terrible person and undeserving of the life that he lived, we must look at the way in which he convinced about 250,000 men to kill all of those people.
The man was a rhetorical genius! It’s too bad he did not use his genius for a purpose for good. We could have done some great things in the world, had Hitler not been a certifiable lunatic.
During the first 24 hours of arriving in Auschwitz, up to 80% (1.3 million people) of the train cars full of Jewish peoples were often killed by the SS officers, by order of Adolf Hitler himself.
The reason I am posting about this place of horror about one year (Dec 26, 2013-Jan. 18, 2014) after I visited is because today (January 27th, 2015) marks the 70th anniversary of the Russian Army rescuing 70,000 victims of Hitler’s assault.
As my colleague at my school’s student newspaper just said “How ironic! The Jews are safe, but now we’re after homosexuals.” and I only agree with her to a certain extent.
Only a handful of states un the U.S. still have a ban on homosexual marriage. Most states are ‘keeping up with the times’ and have legally allowed women to marry women and/or men to marry men. Pennsylvania, even, has had an allowance policy for almost a year.
Personally, I am 100% heterosexual and very much ‘into’ men. But, I do believe that love is love and nobody or power, God aside, has the right to judge another person based on their way of practicing of love. It is not my place to judge. It is no human’s place to judge.
So, I just love.
I just felt the need to spread the word that on THIS day, seventy years ago, in a place far from home in the United States, is when 70,000 people were saved from starvation and working their bodies to death (literally) in Auschwitz Poland.
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