This is an important place to visit and it is apparent that the Europeans feel so also. There were dozens of tour buses filled with students many of them wearing Israel flags on their backs.
Auschwitz did not fall from the sky
Understanding this phrase is critical because it means the Nazis did not one day just get to the point of murdering, – murdering, 6 million people. It was a slow process starting in the 1930s to gradually introduce hate little by little until it was acceptable to watch your neighbors get taken away to be brutally murdered.
Let no one forget and do not accept hate.
After being abducted by the Nazis the people where put on train cattle cars and transported for days with standing room only, no toilets and no food and water.
Once to Auschwitz they were separated into two groups. The immediate murder group or the slave worker group. Women with children, old people, people with any kind of handicap were immediately marched to “showers” where they were gassed to death. The Nazi goal was to eventually kill them all so there was no good group.
Stay vigilant even today.
It is hard to believe there are holocaust deniers today. If you come across these people be careful – they are evil. There are no good Nazis.
The Quote to remember.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
