auschwitz

As I've participated in the couple of active holocaust denial threads, I've run across all sorts of things with which I wasn't familiar, or of which I had at best a superficial knowledge. I've learned a lot in doing so, but I have run across one tidbit of information I hadn't known before, and...

In talking about the military service of his family: Of course, no American brigade helped to liberate Auschwitz; in fact the Americans never got as far as Auschwitz, which is in Poland. The 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. And Obama got the...

Cheney at Auschwitz. Dressed for clearing trails or what?

I don't know if anyone's been following this, but today marks the 60th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz. I had a number of family members at Auschwitz; none survived. My family was seriously hit by the Holocaust as a whole; virtually my entire family in Europe was wiped out...