6 million memories

[Bretty]

The number that gets me is that "between 50 to 70million people died during WW2"... They can't even put a number on it to the nearest 10million!! I try to remember everyone, not just the Jews. 


Auschwitz was a labour camp, I would suggest most people visit Bergen Belsen that was a proper horrendous death camp. I managed to walk around Auschwitz, but Bergen Belsen made me physically sick!

[mtread]

Auschwitz 1 was a labour/detention camp. Auschwitz Birkenau (3 km away) was purely an extermination camp. Both still exist and are visited.


I'm sure Bergen-Belsen is just as harrowing

[Bretty]

It's probably quite sad that I'm interested in, visit and read about all these things.


It's funny how war crimes were quickly forgotten after the war in exchange for knowledge and technology.
For example, It was the German's that put America on the moon. Surprisingly, I didn't see much reference to that when we visited the Kennedy space centre... but it was all technology derived from the development of the V2 missile, the work of Von Braun and the slave labour camps responsible for building them. I've visited these and they are all equally sick.


It's easy to be hypocritical with all these things. I remember hearing some American lady at Auschwitz saying, "How can a nation stand by and let this happen...people held and tortured, without trial or human rights?!". I asked her if she had heard of Guantanamo Bay? Is it really different? We all choose to ignore it, pretend it isn't there, because it suits our interests.


Anyway, Maybe I'm weird...

[coffee]

The technology maybe,,but do you honestly believe anyone went to the moon,THE MOON,the foccin' moon in 1969,no way,not a chance,never happened and probably never will,the biggest con in history. :foc not you Bretty,the lying U.S.A.

[Bretty]

...and erf it be flat. 

[mtread]

..... and the world leaders are actually lizards in human form


O hang on a minute, that might be true  :eek

[coffee]

yeah,slimy bastards  :lol