Auschwitz Anniversary Today - What Have We Learned

Didn't notice a thread about this on the front page so I thought I'd post one, just to let everybody know:



So, sixty years later, what have we learned?

Sidenote: although the Nazi's carried out the actual gassing, the rest of the Western world is guilty in their apathy. We knew about the existence of Auschwitz since at least 1942, and chose to do nothing. Repeated pleas by lower ranking officers to bomb the camp or the rail lines leading to it were ignored. In fact, we repeatedly bombed industrial complexes surrounding Auschwitz while deliberatly avoidind the camp itself. This fact, combined with our refusal to admit Jewish refugees in adequate numbers, makes America a partner in crime to the Holocaust, as far as I'm is concerned. The lesson, if there is one, is that apathy kills.