January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. We at SVDP-ALC have been studying World War 2 history; we went on a field trip to the National World War ll/ D-Day Museum in New Orleans recently. We at SVDP-ALC recognize the historical importance of January 27 with the following three posts: 1. the US Army's liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps, 2. informatiuon on Holocaust Memorial Day, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/ and the Nuremberg Trials, and 3. a memorial letter by Pope John Paul ll recognizing the importance of January 27. (Also see "The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program" at http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/index.shtml )
It is hoped that as we struggle to educate our students about history and about World War ll, that people who know the truth about the Holocaust, or should know the truth, do not deny the truth. It was General Dwight D. Eisenhower himself who ordered, after the camps were liberated by the US Army, that German civilians be marched through the camps to see the countless dead prisoners who were murdered by the Nazis. In this way, no one could deny the truth of these enormous crimes againt humanity.
In some of the photos shown in this post, you will see US Army generals Omar Bradley, George Patton, and General Eisenhower as they tour a concentration camp to see the crimes and the evidence for themselves. In one photo they are shown how prisoneres were beaten and tortured, in another the gallows where prisoners were hanged to death. The photos are in public domain and were taken by the US Army. Also see http://www.eisenhowermemorial.org/ for photo credits. Most of the photos are of a place called Ohrdruf which was a sub-camp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. The cross memorial photo is from Dachau. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews were murdered. After the war many Nazis were put on trial for their crimes, but some escaped.
--Adrian)
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