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Auschwitz 60 years on: Do we still have ears to listen?
Today is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Rantburg's dear friend True German Ally is part of that select group of extraordinary persons who survived the horrors of Hitler's final solution and now is able to return to participate in this commemoration. It is incumbent upon all of us to remember how thin the line is between good and evil, and to strive always to propagate the good and vanquish the evil, in all its forms.

The linked article was not written by TGA (as far as I know), but by an Auschwitz survivor, and I would like TGA to know he's in our prayers today.

Sixty years ago, the Russians liberated Auschwitz, as the Americans approached Dachau. The Allied advance revealed to a stunned world the horrors of the greatest catastrophe ever to befall our civilization. To a survivor of both death factories, where Hitler's gruesome reality eclipsed Dante's imaginary inferno, being alive and well so many years later feels unreal.

We the survivors are now disappearing one by one. Soon history will speak of Auschwitz at best with the impersonal voice of researchers and novelists, at worst with the malevolence of demagogues and falsifiers. This week the last of us, with a multitude of heads of state and other dignitaries, are gathering at that cursed site to remind the world that past can be prologue, that the mountains of human ashes dispersed there are a warning to humanity of what may still lie ahead.
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-01-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=54764