Comments on: Failure of death camp tours for IDF officers – a success?

By: Bruce Sanders

Bruce Sanders — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:28:05 +0000

In the interest of accuracy, concentration camps and death camps were located in Nazi-occupied Poland–not Poland.

By: Barbara Kossowska-Szyszko

Barbara Kossowska-Szyszko — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:15:21 +0000

Please correct an obvious error in your article.
I am referring to the first paragraph:…”to visit the death camps of Poland…”. There have never been any Polish death camps. Unfortunately, in 1939 Poland was invaded, robbed, then ruined, and Poles had no say on anything, including how the Polish soil was to be utilized. All labour and death camps were projected and built solely on Nazis’ demand and used for what only they pleased for. Consequently, those were German Nazis camps. It is a historical fact, indeed.
P.S. Also, I would like to point out, that Auschwitz, for instance, originally was built to hold and exterminate Polish scientists and political prisoners. In 1942 it became the largest site for the murder of Jews. More than 1,100,000 men, women, and children lost their lives in Auschwitz. Rest In Peace for every single one of them.

By: Sue Knight

Sue Knight — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:33:38 +0000

Presumably they are learning that the Axis Powers were Poland, Poland and Poland, given the expression “the death camps of Poland” – and from the fact that there is no mention of any other country being involved.

When I was at school, Poland was on the Allied Side… but its hard to keep up with the Official Media Version of WW2.

The God of Abraham, the true God, has taught us that love “does not keep account of the injury”.

We always always benefit ourselves when we listen to Him.

By: Jim Przedzienkowski

Jim Przedzienkowski — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:00:28 +0000

The term ‘death camps of Poland’ is incorrect. The Nazi Germans established the ‘death camps’ on occupied Polish soil. The camps were not Polish as implied by the comment. Please correct the error.

By: Krakowianka

Krakowianka — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:33:33 +0000

Huge historical and geographical faux pas !!!
Concentration camps were never Polish.
Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939-1945 , they were the ones who built all of their concentration camps on occupied Polish soil.
Russians attacked Poland from the east on September 17, 1939.
Poland as a country did not even exist between 1939-1945 .
Please change your erroneous information to concur with historical facts

By: Iwona

Iwona — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:41:04 +0000

There were no death camps “of Poland”. These killing fields were established and operated by Nazi Germany on territory they invaded, occupied, and incorporated into the Reich. The first victims of the camps were Polish Christians. Interesting that there is no mention of Germany in the article.

By: Iwona

Iwona — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:07:00 +0000

There were no death camps “of Poland”! These killing fields were established and operated by Nazi Germany, and the first victims were Polish Christians, including my own relatives.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:21:11 +0000

“The Armenians, Tutsi, et al. should be concerned that it’s never again for them.”

Sure, we should let all minorities fend for themselves, and let them create armed-to-the-teeth ethno-states. To hell with well-intentioned humanitarian attempts. I should have told my grandmother when she was still alive that hiding a Jewish girl probably only made things worse.

By: Elisabeth

Elisabeth — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:13:19 +0000

In Europe ‘never again’ was and still is used with a universalist meaning. I did not know that nowadays the common meaning in Israel is ‘never again to Jews’.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:51:54 +0000

Ah, Aaron, I think I remember you from South Jerusalem, where you induced me to buy some writing of and about Carl Schmitt.
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I would say that the trips are working and should be encouraged. The camps are a product, partly, of believing an aggregate called “people” is responsible for the acts of some people. That the Nazi chain of causation was wrong is beside the point. The consequences of enforcing mass punishment (I almost wrote atonement, oops, I just did) is one lesson of those camps.
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More and more I come to see Israeli State policy as a kind of hysterical response to suicide bombing and the like, a scream of a rape that won’t go away. Your present polity seems bent on grafting this scream onto all political discourse. Forgiveness would be a release of your children from that fate–with real risk, though. Peace is about risk. Easy for me to say.