11 APRIL, LIBERATION DAY

YESTERDAY EUROPE REMEMBERED NAZI CAMP
VICTIMS DAY - HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS LIBERATED

(RT International) - Yesterday, Europe was remembering the estimated 18 million people who passed through Nazi concentration camps. April 11 marks the liberation of Buchenwald, one of the most notorious camps in Nazi Germany. 65 years after the defeat of the Nazis, survivors of the Holocaust are remembering the horrors of genocide, and their liberation. On April 11, 1945, allied forces freed over 20,000 prisoners from Buchenwald. For many the day is a chance to highlight anti-semitism and political extremism. There were more than 14,000 Nazi concentration camps in Germany and on the occupied territories. About 18 million people passed through the Nazi concentration camps during WWII, a fifth of them children. On average, a prisoner lasted for less than year, many dying from starvation or torture. Millions were systematically murdered. The process of death was perfected to the smallest detail. Before being killed, people were exploited until their last breath. Even after their death, prisoners continued bringing profit as their hair, ashes, and bones were used in manufacturing.

It was only afterwards that the world realized what was happening behind its barbed wire fences. Half a century later, monuments to the victims of Nazi concentration camps have appeared all over the world, dozens of museums have been built on sites where prisoners were held. The aim is to make sure people always remember the horrors of the fascist regime and its deadly ideology. Now the fascist ideology is officially banned in Russia but some of its variations like racism and nationalism still attract supporters among the country’s youth. In Germany, the number of neo-Nazis is also on the increase. Last year, more than one in twenty young men voted for a far-right party.


People of this yuga are ignorant of God's laws. They kill defenseless animals without any restriction and maintain slaughterhouses. As a reaction, from time to time, there is a great war in which countless people are slaughtered even more cruelly than the animals.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

In this age of Kali the propensity for mercy is almost nil. Consequently there is always fighting and wars between men and nations. Men do not understand that because they unrestrictedly kill so many animals, they also must be slaughtered like animals in big wars. ... Sometimes during war, soldiers keep their enemies in concentration camps and kill them in very cruel ways. These are reactions brought about by unrestricted animal-killing in the slaughterhouse and by hunters in the forest.

Śrīla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda :
“The Śrīmad Bhāgavatam”
Purport in Canto 4 - Chapter 29 - Verse 28.