Dispatches from Home – 80 Years Ago Today.

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Lest we Forget!

On this day, 80 years ago, the Red Army advanced toward rows of buildings looming in the shadowy distance. They didn’t know what the buildings were or their purpose, but the smell of rotting flesh told them whatever it was would be bad. IT…was the Auschwitz concentration camp.

They discovered over 7,000 emaciated, dying prisoners who the fleeing SS guards had left behind–even children, who had somehow managed to escape their tormentor’s cruelty, were left behind in the freezing cold. The Red Army also found 600 corpses, 370,000 men’s suits, 837,000 articles of women’s clothing, and seven tons of human hair.

Again, I say, Lest we forget! Kind regards, Anthony. ❤

Some of the thousands of children who were rounded up, imprisoned, and eventually murdered in Auschwitz.
An emaciated, starving survivor.
A pile of prostheses awaiting shipment back to Nazi Germany. In the camps, everything was valued and saved. Everything except human life.