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71 Years Ago Today, Auschwitz
10 years ago
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On January 27th, 1945, soldiers of the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Army arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, freeing the approximately 7,500 prisoners who were still alive inside the camp. The other 58,000 prisoners had been marched by foot to Bergen-Belsen. Only 20,000 made it there.
At the time, the liberation made little impact. The war was still on, and initially, the Soviets wished to downplay the plight of Jewish people. It was only later, once the European conflict began to die down that the full impact of the camp began to be felt.
71 years ago, we were exposed to just a little of what mankind is capable of when we allow ourselves to hate too deeply. Let's not let that happen again.
At the time, the liberation made little impact. The war was still on, and initially, the Soviets wished to downplay the plight of Jewish people. It was only later, once the European conflict began to die down that the full impact of the camp began to be felt.
71 years ago, we were exposed to just a little of what mankind is capable of when we allow ourselves to hate too deeply. Let's not let that happen again.
It does still happen every day , just far more subtile and indirect compared to what the people did in the past.
Like speculating on food resources in the stock exchange until the most poor 3rd world people can't afford anything to eat and starve to death.
Or entirely ignoring any kind of permanent enviromental damage to the nature till we ran out of any food resources.
Not to mention the normal daily neurotism in our society , to either involve into other people's business and always look for fight and how to make everybodys life more miserable (no matter if this are politics, moral apostals, these arab weirdos from the most peaceful religion in the world etc.) .. or do the opposite and just look away.
Which is one of the most common reasons why such shit can happen.
People just give a fuck as long as they either weren't directly involved into something or didn't had (yet) feel any personal consequences.
And it doesn't matter if that were either once the german population, knowing very well what is going on but prefer to keep on to this "glad it's not me" - mentality ;
or what nowadays the global society doing the same to the many of the local and so pointless conflicts or our straight way towards an extreme overpopulation paired with a lack of food and social/economical resources .. just looking straight away and give a fuck.
And it will always be like that , because it's the way how our minds and self-repeating generation-wise conditions work.
We are simply not designed to become fully aware of any long term consequences or even to live in massive crowds of people.