I visited Sachsenhausen and was very impressed by what I saw. Couldn't understand (and still) why people did/do such things. Respect all live and don't try to rule over another
It’s bad and horrible but let the US not forget that Hitler patterned the Holocaust after the genocide of the colonization of this land. History did repeat itself and let’s start calling what happened here what is was, genocide. Republicans are for genocide.
I visited Dachau when I was 16 & will never forget it, or the conversations I had with German friends. When we walked outside after it, I was struck by how blue the sky was, and realized that I couldn't remember seeing anything in color while I was inside. Even today I remember it in gray tones.
I don't know whether it was Auschwitz, or not, but I saw Super 8 film of bulldozers pushing dead bodies over the edge of a cliff - when I was in High School. That was bone-chilling enough for me - even 50 years later.
I met survivors. They were elderly and had their tattoos. I asked them why they didn’t have them removed and their response was so people would believe that death camps existed and so we wouldn’t ever forget.
That touched my soul.
You are a strong force from a strong nation.
I respect your consideration for those you know only in spirit.
We need strength in Scotland too, but I send you some of mine.
The best means of resistance right now.
Is gathering up all the war crime photos.
And start posting them. We can never allow evil of Russian aggression to be ever condoned. Ever.
I felt that same dark energy when I visited the holocaust museum and you have to walk through a rail car
The energy inside that car was overpowering I didn’t want to go in but had no choice. Overwhelmed me for the rest of that day.
Never felt anything like that. Will never forget the feelings
The very same people that justified Putin's invasion of Ukraine by labelling it 'denazification'
Perhaps Putin should now invade USA.
What's that?
He already has?
I visited Auschwitz, and I’ve never felt more dread in my life. It stayed with me for a long time and every time I think about it, I feel the same way as when I visited.
On my bucket list of places to visit. I went to the holocaust museum back high school, 20+ years ago. That feeling of absolute sadness has never left me. Well worth the visit to remind ourselves what evil can happen if we allow it.
Went to Auschwitz ., the display of the shoes was what got to me. Shoes the same size as my grandsons Nike. They said to us tell everyone to shock.,, How on earth are we back here?
Musk went to Auschwitz not so long ago, of course with his toddler son on his shoulder… - the guide who accompanied him said that Musk was completely indifferent and untouched, he only cared about his look on the photos !
Same for the display at the museum in DC- far smaller scale but powerful & stuck with me. How people go to these places and not feel anything, see nothing wrong w/what happened or think it’s cute is beyond me
In Aotearoa New Zealand we called that feeling tapu. The evil becomes attached, embedded in the physical elements associated with terrible events. Our visceral reaction is a reminder these events were not mistakes, they were intentional acts. These feelings are warnings: Never again.
Ignoring that these are out of context and that you can see in the videos that Bannon and Musk are full on Nazi saluting, this amounts to nothing more than a whataboitism. If we pretend Harris and Hillary did full salutes like Musk, then they'd be wrong. It wouldn't make Musk and Bannon right.
It's me sick too! During the occupation of Norway, my grandfather escaped four times from being sent out of the country to be killed. First generation American and my mother still lives there with Russia, knocking on their border at the top...
It’s a slap in the face in the worst way to all our grandfathers / fathers who fought against the evil in WW2. These people mean it and are only in the first stages .
I also visited ! & everytime I see a Nazi salute or some
Asshole dressed as one in this country my blood boils.
As a naive 19yr old who also stood in front of the Berlin
Wall thinking this could never happen here how very
Wrong I was.
I'm watching so many Nazi salutes at CPAC and I'm shocked. WTF? How can people who call themselves Christian cheer this? I'm sick at my stomach. Where is the rest of the world's condemnation?
My dad's Army unit (WW2) did something involving one of the smaller camps. He never spoke of it, and I didn't even know about it until after I researched his Army stuff after he passed. I can't even imagine what things people saw back then.
Yes, the sadness and pain from those killed is i. Every one of them. Being from there I took my husband and my sister. We all choked back tears and felt the souls. My heart is so heavy and sad for that time in history and now fight back against this happening here….
Bless you for your service to the US, and for honoring the horrors of Auschwitz with your presence. As Dr MLK said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that." #solidarity
My grandfather and his family escaped from the Russian pogroms in the early 1900s. He was only three years old. I wish more people knew that Hitler was not the first proponent of Jewish holocaust, just the most efficient.
My grandfather and his sisters went on to become decorated soldiers and nurses for the US Army during WW2. In the name of my ancestors, I will carry on their fight against the genocide of all types of people. Love to u all from an American Jew in Cambodia ❤️
Any idea how we feel in Germany about American politicians raising their arms in a way that is forbidden in Germany and reversing years of transatlantic policy with Putin waiting in the wings?
I’m certain you are horrified and disgusted. I am ashamed of those politicians who were “elected” and embrace nazism like it’s some joke. At best, this just illustrates there are bad actors on every side.
When I look at Germany, I see it’s Sophie Scholls. May we find her spirit here in America!
So did I. Stationed at Graf and Schweinfurt, i went to Auschwitz, it was a black evil feeling. Too much death and hate in one place. I feel that now. It puts me back on an Iraq posture if you get my meaning.
I’ve only ever been to the Holocaust Museum in DC once when I was 13 and I took my teenagers again in 2017. The pain you feel in that place is indescribable , I cannot imagine what it’s like at the actual camps.
I don’t even know how to describe my feelings of dread and despair. My relatives fought in WWII against fascism and to save our country. Their efforts cannot have been in vain. We must stand up and resist. We must have courage.
Thank you for your service. An uplifting message - this website offers hope and strategies https://Indivisible.org to defeat the nazi fascists. The Nation - How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch. You may have already read the article ... not goin down without a fight. Hugs
I went to an army surplus store and they had Nazi stuff. I literally threw up and screamed at the asshole that owned that crap. I almost lost it and could have killed that Nazi. NGL - sometimes I regret keeping it together.
I am nauseated. I am also nauseated with MAGA treatment of immigrants. And, which is more difficult to say on this site, with the Squad, participating in antisemitic Hamas related meetings and "from the river to the sea" genocide slogan. Not to mention MSNBC Jansing with her Nazi triangle.
My father was 4F due to polio, but I had several uncles who fought in WWII. One would have been commanding an LST in the first wave landings in Japan, when the A-bombs were dropped. Some wars have to be fought. Nazis are never good guys. Time we put that shit back in the ground where it belongs.
My daughter visited there, and she couldn’t enter. The angry energy was so strong. I feel it here, in the US, all the time. It’s making me sad and angry all the time.
It should of made every American feel sick. These past three weeks should also open every American's eyes to what is really going on, and it needs to stop
There's a ton of negative energy at the Nazi death camps and there are unfortunately other places like that all around the world that were once places of immense and needless suffering. Humanity has a way of stubbornly refusing to learn from history.
Yes, the world's history is littered with examples of evil. I got to visit the Killing Fields in Cambodia. My own country, Canada has its shameful history of residential schools and abuse of the First Nations peoples. When will people learn?
Obviously nowhere near a Nazi concentration camp, but, I get a really gross feeling looking at the child predator in the White House's eyes. Even in a picture (I've thankfully never seen him in person). I can't look him directly in the eyes. I can feel the evil.
On Sunday we’ll have the next election in Germany where Nazis could have a decisive amount of votes on their side after 1945. Bad times to be a part of history. 😬
In GlenCoe there was a massacre of MacDonalds by Campbell centuries ago. It is often called "The Weeping Glen" I did not believe in such phenomena before I visited there.
The Nazi Death camps would be harrowing to visit.
As a 2nd generation American descended from both an Auschwitz survivor and an immigrant who fled Russian pogroms, I've been sounding the alarm on this nonsense to anyone who will listen. It's saddening to see people still think it could never happen here, despite it already arriving on our shores
Growing up Jewish, you constantly hear about Nazi atrocities.
It is fucking WILD to hear my parents, who's parents fought in WW2, supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people and cheer on the Republican Nazis.
Idk how anyone can go to a site where death , blood , violence and hate are soaked into the ground and not feel it. Wounded Knee. The Coliseum. Any plantation in the south. Any genocide area.
I have had that same eerie feeling in certain parts of old cities in Europe with dark histories. It suffocates. It’s creeping into me now here in this country.
Though my dad didn't carry a gun in WWII, he was in the fight carrying his welding gear. He would be horrified to see what has happened in America today.
I stood at and walked all through Dachau in the early 2000s. It's something beyond unbelievable and heartbreaking. Pure horror. I remember thinking "But, how? How could this happen?" I see our current circumstances and understand....
We all feel you over here in Germany. I once had a job interview in a school that was built and used by the Nazis and the place creeped me out, I didn’t take the job and couldn’t tell them why. We’ve taken to the streets in millions to protest the far right…
My great grandmother was liberated from Auschwitz. When I was a kid, I asked her about it. She shook her head, grabbed my hand and said, “I don’t want any of that poison near you. It will stay inside of me. Bad juju needs to be contained or it gets on everyone it touches.”
Please take care of yourself. I can’t imagine what you are going through but hope you can spend time doing something you enjoy. For me, it was music (listening to and playing an instrument). I believe each of us have an innate ability to understand how to cope with our feelings about bad energy.
When I was 12 I visited my father in Germany and we went to Auschwitz and you could feel the evil… it was absolutely horrible and I too don’t understand how the GOP is ok with anything Nazi.. it’s so evil..
Same here. It was mandatory for us students 50 years ago to visit a concentration camp. Remember heaps of shoes,hair,the ovens.
And a room with hooks along the walls where people were hanged... darkest history comes to mind when watching the development in the US.
Sadly our public education hardly teaches about ww2 and the holocaust anymore, even in Canada. We must all do what we can to educate our own family and those around us about the horrors of the Holocaust.I lived in The Netherlands in mid 80’s and it was important to them that everyone remembered💔
I only visited the Holocaust museum in DC. Walking through the rebuilt sleeping qtrs and prisoner hair, & shoes shook me to the depths of my core. The profound feeling of sadness and despair overwhelmed me so much that I had to leave the building to breath. NAZI Germany and now US is revolting!
I went to the Holocaust museum in DC. It’s a good museum and important work, but it wiped me out emotionally. I don’t think I’ll be going back or to any camps.
It’s fucn sickening . And I suppose we all no matter what part of the world or culture , that there are Human Sickos out there , and they must always be called out . 👍🙏🛸👽🏴
I would love to but It’s really hard to immigrate there unless you could claims asylum or something? Also, Mexico is only a 5 hour drive from Vegas so it’s much easier on short notice.
Asylum you can claim and we have great groups that would help. Toronto and Montreal have great communities and lots of allies but get why Mexico would be first choice. Stay safe!
Thank you for these resources below, I’m going to send them to a couple of my friends. Knowing our neighbors to the North actually want to protect us has me 😭
Me too. Still remember growing up and seeing some grandparents with those awful tattoos. Also remember the outrage 25 years ago when monuments to the Holocaust survivors were defaced. Sick thing, it was a church youth bible group and it’s 20 something leaders! Not sorry I turned them in! Hate Nazis!
You are more conscious about what Nazis are than German " journalists" who invite them regularly in talkshows and the evening news for interviews to spread misinformation that being a Nazi is just a legitimate opinion.
Places like concentration camps should remember us that Nazis are inhuman beasts!
I visited Dachau when I was in Germany in my 20's. I left early and waited out by the car for the others. I just couldn't take the vibes I was getting from such an awful place. To think that people deny it happened or are ok with Nazis today is horrifying.
I remember sitting on my Nana's stairs as a kid, after I finished reading "Count the Stars." I just sat there, clutching the book & sobbing. It's sad that I had more empathy at 10 than most adults do now. How many times does this have to happen before we learn? Never again should mean never again.
my greatgrandma lives near where the camp dachau is. the place has a bad vibe even just passing; actually going inside it for the first time, thought the door saying "arbeit macht frei", seeing the bunks and crematorium... made me shudder, its sickening to think what evils humans are capable of
I visited Dachau in the early 70's and I will never forget seeing the same things you saw. That, and there were no birds flying near the camp... Eisenhower ordered germans be toured through the camps to see what their government had wrought...
I been there to just walking in the gate I felt a very deep pain in my chest. I also served 9 years of my life defending the US and NATO from Soviet aggression
It takes a tremendous amount of effort to deal with such a heavy wall of dark energy in such an inhumane space. How does one step through the weight of it? Understanding the Holocaust doesn’t come without distress.
Went to a concentration camp in Sachsenhausen on a school trip over a decade ago, we were on a trip that was to learn, not only about WW2, but also to visit the many places where the war was fought as well as to visit the monuments erected in memory of the victims. It was awful to see the reminders.
Where are our champions? We need leadership! We have the numbers. We just need force…and I mean in a big way. An army of Luigi’s. This can be stopped! I think too many people’s mouths are on the floor in disbelief to formulate a plan.
I don't remember the name but I visited one as a kid when I visited Poland, and I wasn't emotionally mature enough to understand the gravity of the place but I hate that we're approaching that level of hatred in this country.
Thank you for your service, Lakota Man. I can understand feeling the dark, evil energy of a place like that. Had a similar experience stepping inside a Holocaust railcar years ago. I immediately burst into tears & could just feel its dark residue. Terrible reminders of what must never happen again.😢
It makes me sick and angry to see these people glorify the nazis and the ideology. I just lost my father, a WWII vet...a medic. The stories he told. 😪
Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday party for a WWII vet. He fought on Sugar Loaf Hill. Has 2 purple hearts to show for his courage.
Bravery!
Many, many heroes came out of WWII and other wars/conflicts. And never complained.
I'm glad your father survived and got the help he needed.
The stories he told. He saw some POW camps as well. He told the difference in how American camps were run vs enemy camps.
I don't write this for any reason except to honor these brave men! They had more courage than any of these idiots who glorify extremes!
My mother had a massive stroke when I was 13, my father stuck by her and did what he needed to do as a family man. He didn't ditch his responsibility.
We rallied as a family. I grew up quickly. A 13 year old that needed to become an adult overnight!!
Members of Congress et al. that support/defend the firings of good people, loss of dept of Ed program and too many to list...are deplorable!! It's so alarming!Let's not forget who never left us down!
History is for us to learn from so that we do not repeat the same atrocious things over and over again. It's clear that our current administration did not learn anything from any history class they attended.
See, I think a mistake in this assessment is that they went to these schools and didn’t learn a thing. I propose that they DID actually learn about those atrocities, and that they don’t give a damn. Ignorance is one thing, but they all KNOW. And their feelings toward that makes it more dangerous.
Born and raised in Germany by parents that grew up in Nazi Germany. That part of our history was taught to us in school year after year. I took my son when he was a teenager to visit Dachau. It is our obligation as Germans never forget and stand up against fascism as soon as it raises its ugly head.
I walked through a gas chamber and stood before the first oven built at Dachau. I’m tearing up typing this message as I too am haunted by the experience. Damn those who have no respect for history nor learn from it, and those who take us down the same path.
Stay strong, my friend. Our light must be the brightest in the face of this type of darkness. Be the sword of justice, buy food on the table for people in need, share shelter with someone who has none, and create joy and unity where ever you can!
I had a chance to visit Auschwitz when I was stationed in Europe. I was wondering if you had a similar experience. I noticed birds would not fly over it. They would flew towards the grounds, only to make a large circle around the grounds. Like the birds could sense the evil.
I went to one when i was a kid. It breaks you.
I can picture Trump going to one and thinking "this would make a great hotel" or Musk going and thinking "Isn't this cool"?
My father was sent by US Army Intel to open it the first day and help sort out the prisoners and interrogate the SS guards. He could unloaded the details until after he turned 80. He walked around with the experience in his brain. I never knew, until he spent hours telling me about the horror.
Evil lingers to remind us what it is . To remind us why we fight to protect the right things. Things evil cannot break. Love, hope, dreams. It is a moon that reflects light.
It says a lot that Patton was physically ill when he saw it. I've been to Auschwitz and Dachau recently. A LOT of Americans need to educate themselves quickly about what went down in those places, and the people who made it happen. There's NOT much difference between them and the modern GOP.
My Grandfather was among the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at Dachau. It left a profound impression on him. I have the pictures he took and the letters he wrote to my grandmother about what he saw. The images are horrific. His letters were full of anger. I know now why he never spoke about the war.
My father visited Dachau also (he was one of the post-war occupying troops). He never talked about what he saw, but it clearly horrified him.
The Holocaust-deniers gained media attention late in his life. He was outraged by their claims: “It happened, I saw what it did!!”
Visited Sachsenhausen camp, when I was 11 or 12. Nazis trained 'effective execution methods' there, neck shooting, first trials with gas chambers. You can see barracks, the guard towers, fences, the 'neutral zone', the hospital, the morgue. Sickening. I will always remember.
Thank you for your service. I tried to join 3 different branches after high school but couldn't pass the eye exam. It was an automatic failure once they saw my prescription
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One winter night, his unit bunked down in a barn. They thought they were sleeping on hay bales. They discovered the awful truth at daybreak.
Never again.💔💔
That touched my soul.
I respect your consideration for those you know only in spirit.
We need strength in Scotland too, but I send you some of mine.
You always speak the truth. Thank you
Is gathering up all the war crime photos.
And start posting them. We can never allow evil of Russian aggression to be ever condoned. Ever.
The energy inside that car was overpowering I didn’t want to go in but had no choice. Overwhelmed me for the rest of that day.
Never felt anything like that. Will never forget the feelings
Perhaps Putin should now invade USA.
What's that?
He already has?
My husband was in the Air Force during Vietnam. 🇻🇳
#NeverAgain
it’s horrifying that the GQP MAGAs want us to go back to this.
I want nothing to do with that energy either.
We do have the recording videos of Musk & Bannon.
Asshole dressed as one in this country my blood boils.
As a naive 19yr old who also stood in front of the Berlin
Wall thinking this could never happen here how very
Wrong I was.
When I look at Germany, I see it’s Sophie Scholls. May we find her spirit here in America!
I'm figuring out they are not a very 'learned' people.
The Nazi Death camps would be harrowing to visit.
It's beyond an abomination to humanity what they are creating, AGAIN! 😡
The guy in the UK, Tommy Robinson, that Musk said should be PM instead of our elected PM.
He's just been found to have links to neo Nazi terrorists.
This is who Musk, and by extension Trump, back.
This is who they are.
It is fucking WILD to hear my parents, who's parents fought in WW2, supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people and cheer on the Republican Nazis.
Absolute brainrot.
It is the most peculiar feeling … denial and hope and incredible terror … that we Two Spirit feel in these moments.
🏳️⚧️
And a room with hooks along the walls where people were hanged... darkest history comes to mind when watching the development in the US.
We’re going to have go bags for Mexico just in case worst comes to worst.
Places like concentration camps should remember us that Nazis are inhuman beasts!
And I am not a member of a vulnerable population.
I was lucky - at that time, I didn't have the ability to hear the screams of pain of the dying.
I can't revisit. My ears are too open now.
Now is our time, it's up to us.
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Tomorrow, I'm going to a birthday party for a WWII vet. He fought on Sugar Loaf Hill. Has 2 purple hearts to show for his courage.
Bravery!
I'm glad your father survived and got the help he needed.
The stories he told. He saw some POW camps as well. He told the difference in how American camps were run vs enemy camps.
My mother had a massive stroke when I was 13, my father stuck by her and did what he needed to do as a family man. He didn't ditch his responsibility.
Members of Congress et al. that support/defend the firings of good people, loss of dept of Ed program and too many to list...are deplorable!! It's so alarming!Let's not forget who never left us down!
I hope Americans are getting pretty freaking mad. 😡
The fake ministers, the police, judges, celebrities, "rich" people, news, colleges, human rights org., etc - ALL LIARS and EVIL.
Come out from among them & stop sinning with them unless you want the plagues!
The plagues are HERE now! I am Elijah.
My grandfather (WWI veteran, WWII resistance) taught me about fighting fascism. I was only a kid but I do remember.
What is happening now in the USA is terrifying.
I do hope that the decent folks will rise and push back before it's too late.
I can picture Trump going to one and thinking "this would make a great hotel" or Musk going and thinking "Isn't this cool"?
Did he want to move in?
The Holocaust-deniers gained media attention late in his life. He was outraged by their claims: “It happened, I saw what it did!!”