It is 75 years ago since the extermination camps in Poland were liberated.
It is important to remember these things, the horror is that mankind can do unspeakable evil on other human beings. Many Germans to this day will tell you that it never happened.
On my journeys I met a man whose father rounded the people in surrounding villages and marched them through the camps where the bodies lay.
Even then faced with what they saw they denied that they knew anything.
It is said that even today the birds do not sing around Auschwitz
I also met a man who had been through the Japanese work camp where they built the bridge over the river Quai.
When he was liberated he was only 5 stone weight even though he was over 6 foot tall.
"My ambition was to live, I never held bitterness in my heart. I LIVED my life from then on."
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