“Pavel Kohn survived a death march from Auschwitz and a winter train trip in open coal cars. He arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp a frostbitten, exhausted 15-year-old Jewish orphan, his parents and older brother already dead in the Nazi Holocaust.”  According to the Associated Press (Minneapolis StarTribune April 10, 2005) “Kohn was among those rescued by American troops who freed Buchenwald 60 years ago Monday. Some 56,000 others -- Jews, Soviet POWs, political prisoners, homosexuals -- perished at the camp near Weimar, Germany.”  This is only two thousand souls less than the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam.  And this was just ONE concentration camp in which the Germans killed Jewish people during Hitler’s reign.

According to the article, Kohn (a Prague native now living in southern Germany), said that "It was close to a miracle that I was still alive.  Although I was just a bit older than 15, nothing could surprise me anymore in terms of cruelty."

The Associated Press article stated that “Kohn and other survivors will mark the anniversary in a ceremony (today) at Weimar's National Theater, along with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Nobel literature laureate Imre Kertesz of Hungary, who wrote a chilling novel about his time at Buchenwald.  For many of the aging survivors, this is likely the last major remembrance event.”

The article went on to say that “Buchenwald had no gas chambers. Here prisoners were mainly worked to death, killed by overwork, starvation, disease and medical experiments. It was also the camp where Ilse Koch, the commandant's wife, had lampshades made from dead prisoners' skin.”

During World War II, average German citizens turned a blind eye on the cruelty being committed by their government.  Average Germans allowed millions of Jewish people to be tortured and killed.  Today, Chancellor Schroeder is attending a ceremony to honor those who survived that cruelty committed by German Fascists.  And yet, today, that same Chancellor ignores the cruelty unleashed upon the civilized world by Islamic Fascists…just as much of the world ignored the cruelty committed by German Fascists.  Schroeder has failed to help America rid the world of Islamic Fascism just as much of the world hid from reality before World War II.  The truly sad part of this is that it is not just Schroeder who is turning away from doing the right thing.  It is the majority of German citizens…just like before…just like before.

Another interesting fact:  Who is it that is condemning President Bush as being another Hitler?  The far left in America and in Europe.  Of course we all know that the name of Hitler’s political party was…all at once…the National Socialist Party.  Heck of a deal.