Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was liberated on April 29, 1945 by the United States Seventh Army. It is estimated that approximately 32,000 survivors were freed that day. Most historians place the total number of victims who perished there to be at least 41,500. [500×399]
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Words can’t describe how tragic this picture is. It’s history I know but man that’s horribly sad.
“round up all your political prisoners and undesirables and put them in a death camp” is still very much on the table for many nations today, especially those with nukes and an authoritarian ruling party.
Dachau was less than 10 miles from the Munich city center.
But apparently the majority of Germans including the future Pope did know anything about what was going on ….
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My grandma still hates Germans. She remembers. It was not so long ago. Victims are still alive.
I really wish there were laws to protect people punching holocaust deniers in the mouth. But noooooo, their right to spew bullshit and deny attrocities is more important than my right to punch them in the mouth.
A large number of my family members died there, it’s horrifying to think that some of them are amongst the piles of corpses and even maybe in this photograph.
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Dachau was not the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany. That would be [KZ Nohra](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Nohra).
Dachau was where political prisoners were sent, mainly communists and socialists. Next time anyone says “the Nazis were socialists.” This is where actual German socialists were sent.
We need to be reminded, always, of the inhumanity, we live comfortable lives, without conflict, often not remembering the suffering of our forefathers, of the genocide of various people because of the colour of their skin, their belief, their culture.
From the holocaust, to bosnia, to armenia, to palestine.
We will have pundits that will dispute “what is real”, or “what is genocide” but care very little for the pain of those suffering.
Shame on the people who denounce genocide.
Shame on people who deny that the holocaust ever happened.
Shame on the people who deny the genocide or forget the genocide of Bosnians.
Shame on the people who deny and erase the genocide of the Armenians.
Shame on the people who deny and look away for what is happening in Sudan.
Shame on the people, millions of corporations, and the media who have turned palestine into a debate rather than a concern for humanity.
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