Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Does anyone know what today is??

Today is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Not something to celebrate really, but something that needs to be remembered. There are too many people that want to say it never happened, but it did. Millions died. Many lost their entire family.
Hitler's political platform, sounded wonderful to the Germans. He was promising:
To make Germany great again
To solve unemployment by making more public service jobs
To stop hyperinflation
To protect his people (Germans) from the communists and other bad influences
To abolish the Treaty of Versailles
To let Germans back into the country
To increase German Lebensraum (Living room for the German People)
To get rid of large companies which were not owned by Germans
To sell more local produce so that all German prosper from the changes and so that they wont have to pay a lot of money for overpriced imported goods from markets
All of these are included in the book he wrote while in prison called Mein Kampf, which translates to My Struggles. It is mostly autobiographical, many believe he over exaggerated the truth.
There are so many books that tell of the struggles of some of the people that lived through the concentration camps. I suggest reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel. There is also a very awesome book called "Hubener Vs. Hitler" about a LDS teenager that formed a resistance against Hitler.

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