On this day 81 years ago the Red Army liberated Auschwitz
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On this day 81 years ago the Red Army liberated Auschwitz
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That’s why you see flags hoisted at half-mast all over Germany today. Never forget!
Unfortunately, one brutal occupation was replaced by another.):
A truly incredible place to go visit, if any holocaust deniers went and visited auschwitz and birkeuneu they’d change their tune very fast
I can smell the denial incoming to this comment section, pin or delete: call it
Well,after that the soviets liberated the polish people from themselves.I think you know what i mean.
Yeah. And then it occupied half of Europe and built the Berlin Wall.
Every time someone mentioned WW2 all the Mordor supporters come crawling out of their orc caves.
The amount of clueless people OF EUROPE that are thankful for the communist occupying the countries they “liberated” is honestly concerning.
I’m just gonna ask you all to Google Witold Pilecki and pay attention to what happened to him at the end of his life.
How people deny the holocaust is beyond me.
I can understand some people not being able to grasp the scope of it or struggling with the why but the nazis even said they had done it, we saw the progression from van’s with the exhaust feeding into the back to gas.
If there is a hell may the bastards who aided in such a crime against all humanity and decency burn for eternity
Edit: it is slightly depressing that a moment of contemplation and memorial has turned into a pissing match that I admittedly threw a stick in.
We should be better then this
My granddad and his entire family spent 10 days on judenrramp waiting to be sent to gas chambers. But there were cyklon b shortages and they got sent to labour camp near szczecin. He was 7 then
By “liberated” you mean swallowed into the Soviet sphere of influence.
Edit: Yalta conference people, there’s nothing inaccurate historically about this. countries in Central and Eastern Europe were occupied and converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People’s Republic of Poland, the People’s Republic of Hungary.
Went there and seen it. Horrible place. But the historical value is second to non.
Glad they preserved it. For all the world to see.
On this day in 2026, there are far too many people who believe it didn’t happen. :0(
Ah yes. The famous “Soviet liberation”.
NEVER forget this. Today I came across some new Stolpersteine for people who were caught and mass murdered just for who they are.
More like under new management.
There are some things in recent(-ish) history that just seem so unbelievable nowadays, like how one island nation in Europe controlled almost 1/4 of the world or how we once divided Europe with an iron curtain and how communism was a thing while today, people from Romania, Bulgaria or Estonia can freely move across Europe.
And then we get to the holocaust: a crime so gruesome that even after extensive studies, is still hard to comprehend. The scale, the efficiency and the lack of a proper reason why it happened. I am glad that we have managed to at least partially move into the right direction.
Fun(?) fact, the B in “Arbeit” is upside down. The workers who had to make the sign did that as a form of protest.
source: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/the-original-arbeit-macht-frei-inscription-is-back-in-place-at-the-auschwitz-gate,91.html
Yeah so remember this evil whenever you see any neonazis, Nazi sympathizers, or other antisemitism.
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Pity the Soviets then started their own sending to Gulags. Some people were in both. Imagine surviving the German camps to end up in a Gulag.
I wonder how many poor souls died afterwards in the soviet occupation of eastern europe. Those people must have had a very short moment of relief after realizing what has come afterwards for them. I am so glad i got to grow up in west Germany where totalitarian regimes ended 1945…
OP is a pro-Russia lying cunt trying to portray the USSR (and Russia) in a good light.
Russia is no different from the Nazis, that was true in the 1940s and it is still true today.
Russia didn’t liberate anything. They occupied and subjugated. Ever wondered why ex-USSR countries raced towards NATO and EU after the USSR collapsed? They were finally free of occupation by Russia, they were finally free to decide their own fate. They wanted nothing to do with Russia.
This propaganda does not deserve a single upvote.
The polish people: “you have freed us”
The Red Army: “Oh i wouldn’t say freed, more like under new management”
Rather, they began to occupy European countries. It should not be forgotten that when Auschwitz began its work, Stalin’s USSR and Hitler’s Germany were allies and had already occupied Poland together as allies.
p.s. edit/ It should also be noted that after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Stalin handed over German and Austrian dissidents, including Jews who had fled to the USSR, to his friend Hitler. Historians are not certain about the exact number and estimate it to be between 600 and 4,000 people.
sure, sure
The Russians are exterminating the Ukrainian people and their culture and language as we speak, but Europe is still trying to make a deal with a genocidal dictator.
Millions are already dead, but Europe is busy wringing its hands on what to do.
I was here just last week. Incredible place to visit while being equally horrifying when you hear such dark details of what went on. I really, really hope it never happens again
Liberation is glorified term. Most of prosoners were already enforced to death march and remaining 7000 were sick and half dead. It was not liberation by the cause, but just documting by accudent by moving front. In the meantime soviet union had similar campa around its own area which no one did liberare. As soviet union was another evil power.
23 august 1939 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by russia and germany divided europe into two and started coordinated attack:
– 1. septembril 1939 Germany attcked Poland from west
– 17 of september 1939 Soviet union attacked poland from east
After while, they met and marched produdly together marking successful division.
“Liberated”, sure. Some people were first prisoners of german concentration camps and later in soviet ones.
Liberated is a rich term here
…and stayed for decades as oppressors
Went today tour guide was brilliant we were lucky enough to be the first group of the morning
And now Nazi-russia is the most fascist country in the world
The German extermination camp Auschwitz, because the Nazis did not come from the moon. And let us not forget that rxssia started World War II alongside Germany, and it was only Stalin’s naivety that forced him to defend himself at Leningrad. He preferred to believe in his friendship with Hitler when his people advised him to arm himself. What an irony of history that contemporary rxssia, together with Trump’s USA, supports nationalist and Nazi movements in Europe.
I wonder if the truth about Russia’s modern day death camps where they kill and torture Ukrainian POWs will ever come out.
Ruscism is fascism
And the Red Army saw that its Nazi comrades had copied the model of its Gulats.
Red army was one of the enablers of Nazi success. Supporters in Poland invasion where the camp was built. Funny how we think of them as heroes nowadays.
Hot take: Auschwitz was a bad thing. We apparently need that reminder right now.
One of only few spots soviets actually liberated and not “liberated”
Jewish American here. So refreshing to see these comments in a sea of denial and mockery. Keep being based as always.
Red army liberated Auschwitz and forgot to go back to Russia from Poland
Shortly after Soviets “liberated” Auschwitz they transformed it to a[ prison for Poles](https://polandwatch.substack.com/p/the-forgotten-tragedy-how-auschwitz).
The Russians immediately burnt Auschwitz to the ground like idiots. It led to holocaust deniers making the claim that the original camp never existed.
The Americans were smart. They immediately pulled out their camera at Bergen-Belson and documented everything. Then they used that footage to de-nazify the german public and german POWs.
I miss the days when americans were smart
One of the few things the red army has actually liberated.
Never forget what fueled and justified these horrors: economic depression, racist pseudo-science, Christian arrogance, and tired conspiracy tropes (e.g. protocols, deicide charges, blaming Jews for communism/globalism, blood libel, etc..).
See Nazis attempted Nationalistic revision of Christianity: [Positive Christianity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Christianity)
Then see these antisemitic ramblings [“On the Jews and Their Lies”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Jews_and_Their_Lies) from the German Father of Protestantism **Martin Luther** in his later years in the 1500’s.
Luther advises Protestants to carry out seven remedial actions:
1. to burn down Jewish synagogues and schools and warn people against them
2. to refuse to let Jews own houses among Christians
3. to take away Jewish religious writings
4. to forbid rabbis from preaching
5. to offer no protection to Jews on highways
6. for usury to be prohibited and for all Jews’ silver and gold to be removed, put aside for safekeeping, and given back to Jews who truly convert
7. to give young, strong Jews flail, axe, spade, and spindle, and let them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow
He also describes Jews as a “base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth”. Furthermore, Luther writes that the synagogue has been an “incorrigible whore and an evil slut” and that “we are at fault in not slaying them”.
This one theologian was quoted extensively in Nazi propaganda to a massive Protestant and Catholic population. Though, German Catholics were much less supportive of the regime compared to German Protestants, who were historically and statistically much more supportive.
The problem is just as theological as it is political. After the Holocaust, we saw the Vatican declare the monumental [Nostra Aetate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_aetate) and many Protestant institutions also denounced Luther’s later anti-Jewish ramblings. And the rest is recent history.
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> *If the part of the dough offered as first fruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; and if the root is holy, then the branches also are holy. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted among the others to share the rich root of the olive tree,* ***do not boast over the branches***. *If you do boast, remember:* ***you do not support the root, but the root supports you.****”*
> *You will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off on account of unbelief, but you stand on account of belief. **So do not become arrogant, but be afraid.**”*
*Romans 11:16-20 NRSVUE*
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> *”As regards the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but* ***as regards election*** *they are beloved for the sake of their ancestors, **for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.**”*
*Romans 11:28-29 NRSVUE*
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> *“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell you,* ***until heaven and earth pass away***, *not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”*
*Matthew 5:17-19 NRSVUE*
Let’s remember the brave 5000 Catholic priests that unfortunately also died under the Nazi regime
lol liberated by the red army… same army that invaded and split the country with the nazi’s, set up gulags that oppressed and killed…
Just to clarify, they were also one of the reasons why Germans were even able to build it.