70 years ago: the extermination camp Auschwitz liberated

70 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor remembers

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January,1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. 

The theme music from "Schindler's List"

Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp : The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC replaces its prototype, the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL).

"Nearly 100 hundred aerial photographs of the Auschwitz death camp are available from the NAIL datatabase. Search NAIl and type in "NWDNC-263-AUSCHWITZ" or "NWDNC-373-AERIALFILM" in the ditigal copies box."

NY Times: How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood  AUSCHWITZ was liberated 70 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, and news of its existence shocked the world. With its principal killing center at one of its main camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, becoming fully operational in 1942, it was Germany’s largest and the most notorious extermination site. There the Germans slaughtered approximately 1.1 million people, a million of whom were Jews. Its mention evokes notions of evil and instant horror. Auschwitz was a death factory, an oxymoron that would have made no sense before the Holocaust, but that now is effortlessly comprehensible.

Below: the iconic image of Auschwitz:

"Shoah" 'Oskar Schindler's List' AUSCHWITZ-Speilberg-Williams-Stafford,Piano Rendition Theme 

The "Shoah", or "the Holocaust" "The Holocaust (from tthe Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as theShoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. An additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders are included by some historians bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories".

Yad Vashem; The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

"And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name (a "yad vashem")... that shall not be cut off."

(Isaiah, chapter 56, verse 5)

More  on this coming...

the Oxford Union debate with the subject, is America racist?

The debate will be taped and aired on David Webb’s SiriusXM Patriot radio show Monday, January 26 at 9PM Eastern time. Additional coverage by Breitbart News, Fox News Network, and worldwide media is expected. The Oxford Union YouTube channel will have the full debate following its conclusion.  Breitbart

US Racism Debate : Al Sharpton   Description

Instead of the Emergency Debate prior to the US Racism Debate this evening, there will be an individual address by Rev Al Sharpton as a precursor to the main Debate. 

A prominent civil rights activist,  Barack Obama referred to Rev Sharpton as "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden".  Rev Sharpton hosts NBC's PoliticsNation and a radio talk show called 'Keepin' It Real', and makes regular guest appearances on Fox News.

Trust the Rev. Al Sharpton to go for the old bait-and-switch when he thinks he might have to answer for his positions.

Sharpton Speaks at Oxford, Addresses Whether America’s ‘Institutionally Racist’

“The America under Barack Obama is not the same America that it was under James Madison or Thomas Jefferson, and it will not be the same 100 years from now, if we keep on fighting. So as you wrestle with this question of ‘Is American institutionally racist?’ my answer is: America is in transition. And that transition will occur, and continue to occur.”

From the Canada Free Press

Are neither this President nor his supporters capable of embarrassment?

'Fruit Loop' Obama's Peculiar Priorities  . . . "Speaking of “really sad,” that’s pretty much how Barack Obama has made America look on the world stage." . . .

 RedState

3 YouTube stars interviewed Obama, because at this point, why not?

... "Of course, I saw this news at the same time I was seeing reports of Yemen burning to the ground, so maybe I was a little irritated that this was taking up space on my wire. I didn’t care. I was worried about real issues.  As it turns out, so were Hank, GloZell, and Bethany." 

People Magazine: That Time YouTube Stars Interviewed President Obama and Things Got Weird

Michael Barone: A Substance-free State of the Union  "Six years later, Obama still hasn’t come up with policy proposals that can withstand serious scrutiny." 
                                                                  

King Abdullah “Could not Stand President Obama”  . . . "Obama has made an utter mess of the Middle East. He focused on withdrawing the United States from the region, supporting “protestors” – no matter who the protestors actually were – and focused on helping John Kerry get a Nobel Peace Prize by making peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Meanwhile, the whole place fell to pieces.

"And that had much more of an effect on Abdullah than the aura of Obama."

Obama, Biden Will Skip Auschwitz Commemoration – Because They’re VERY Busy

"Because he’s a very, very busy man, President Obama will not join other world dignitaries at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday.

"And because he’s very busy too, Vice President Biden won’t be there as well.

"Instead, to what will likely be the last event of its kind, the United States of America will berepresented by the Treasury Secretary.

"A list obtained by the New York Times showed several other world leaders would be there:

The President's schedule for that day

Vice President Biden's schedule for that day here.

Put America, her allies, and our foreign policy in the hands of a petulant juvenile president and this is what we get.

“Every nation has the government it deserves.” Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)

Obama’s Policies Put the U.S. on an Irreversible Path to Impotence – Videos

. . . "There is no sign that the policies will change because the ideology to which our leaders adhere is written in stone and the president operates without the other branches of government to guide him. His advisors are only those who will tell him what he wants to hear." . . .

... "Eventually, we will have no place from which to launch an offensive.

"Yemen was an important base and we are going to lose it.

"It is going to get much worse and the U.S. will have far less influence. Mr. Obama does not count Iran’s takeover as meaningful. It’s still a “tiny country” to him.

"Mr. Obama thinks we are in a better position when every country is equally powerful and the U.S. grovels from a point of weakness like other non-terror nations.

"Lands currently under Iranian influence:

Remember in 2010?  Obama snubbed Netanyahu for dinner with Michelle and the girls, Israelis claim  . . . "As he left, Mr Netanyahu was told to consider the error of his ways. "I'm still around," Mr Obama is quoted by Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper as having said. "Let me know if there is anything new.' "

Mr. Obama may have had a good reason -I can't say- but no other president would have handled it this way. Well, maybe President Belafonte would.

The next president should get out that reset button and re-label it in Hebrew.

Iran’s emerging empire and Obama's foreign policy; beware, Israel!

Charles Krauthammer  "While Iran’s march toward a nuclear bomb has provoked a major clashbetween the White House and Congress, Iran’s march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely overlooked. In Washington, that is. The Arabs have noticed. And the pro-American ones, the Gulf Arabs in particular, are deeply worried." . . .

"Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen’s government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It’s not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East."

And if you take nothing else away from this article, at least heed these words:

"Iran’s domination of Syria was further illustrated by a strange occurrence last Sunday in the Golan Heights. An Israeli helicopter attacked a convoy on the Syrian side of the armistice line. Those killed were not Syrian, however, but five Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon and several Iranian officials, including a brigadier general.

"What were they doing in the Syrian Golan Heights? Giving “crucial advice,” announced the Iranian government. On what? Well, three days earlier, Hezbollah’s leader had threatened an attack on Israel’s Galilee. Tehran appears to be using its control of Syria and Hezbollah to create its very own front against Israel."

Related: Charles Krauthammer’s remarks on The Kelly File Friday evening.

... "Obama has less sympathy for Israel than any president in our history, Krauthammer said.

"He had Netanyahu leave the White House through the rear entrance the first time he visited because they disagreed. Obama immediately makes it personal."  

Have I not used the word "petulant" often in articles about Obama?.

An ominous connection with the above: Will Hezbollah attempt to capture Metula?

"After several senior Hezbollah military leaders and an Iranian General were killed in the Syrian portion of the Golan Heights, presumably by Israel, there is plenty of speculation as to when and how Hezbollah and Iran will react.

"An article in The Times of Israel suggests that capturing an Israeli town or sections of northern Israel could be in store, as Hezbollah has threatened to do so in the next conflict:" . . .

(Hezbollah fortifications overlooking Metula, Israel)(photo Hadar Sela 2013)

... "So would Hezbollah try to capture Metula in response to the attack on the Hezbollah and Iranian commanders?

"My guess is not as part of a tit-for-tat. More likely rocket firings and attempted kidnappings, or attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets abroad.

"Because an attempt to capture an Israeli town like Metula would be the start of, or result in, all-out war."

Sadly, the way it all works

Obviously not judged by the content of his character.

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