Forum: Why Auschwitz, other atrocities must stay seared into memory

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By Cassie Davis / Herald Forum

It was the summer of 1944 and Adolf Hitler’s operations were running at full speed and his demented plan seemed to be going much more smoothly than the Nazis hoped … until it didn’t!

All throughout the world, the words Auschwitz, Hitler, death camps, Soviet and Churchill would be burned into the DNA of not just the survivors and fighters of WWII, but the younger generations as well in hopes of never letting such a thing happen again.

Three months before the Soviets found the atrocious Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Heinrich Himmler, a leading Nazi official who was part of Hitler’s extermination plan in WWII, played the move of halting the use of gas chambers and called for their destruction. Unfortunately for Himmler, the destruction was only partway completed.

On Jan. 27, 1945, as the Soviets were advancing toward the Polish town of Osweicim, they stumbled upon the most inhumane, unthinkable conditions that no human should ever have to be put through. Around 230 Red Army men were killed, as the Nazis knew right where they were heading.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/forum-why-auschwitz-other-atrocities-must-stay-seared-into-memory/

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1. Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who

Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who would try to deny it.

Yet Trump has his 6MWE and Camp Auschwitz followers. That's anti-denial in his own camp. (6 Million Wasn't Enough)

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=6mwe

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2. Bad start, bad essay

"It was the summer of 1944 and Adolf Hitler’s operations were running at full speed and his demented plan seemed to be going much more smoothly than the Nazis hoped … until it didn’t!"

The Germans were in retreat everywhere by the summer of 1944.

This piece fails at a basic level.

The opening sentence is logically incoherent and adopts a flippant tone that is inappropriate for the subject. From there, the essay treats World War II and the Holocaust as a collection of symbolic names and familiar horrors rather than as a history that requires precision, context, and restraint. Dates drift, causality is blurred, and emotionally charged anecdotes are substituted for understanding.

Most troubling is that the piece borrows gravity it has not earned. Invoking Auschwitz, quoting Rod Serling, and declaring moral intentions do not substitute for demonstrated knowledge. Writing about the Holocaust is not an exercise in signaling concern; it demands accuracy, discipline, and responsibility. This draft shows none of those consistently.

For the benefit of anyone reading along: material like this does not honor history or remembrance. It trivializes them.