BY SHAY CULLEN
EVERY January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day. It marks the worst mass murder, the genocide of more than six million Jewish people and others. It happened across Europe from 1933 to 1945 when the Nazi political party came to power in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
The Holocaust was an almost indescribable implementation of a diabolical plan of the greatest evil to erase from the earth the Jewish people and others that the racist party under Hitler deemed to be sub-humans and marked for elimination by planned mass execution.
What is evil but the total absence of good, seen through the actions of people without conscience, without moral or spiritual values, with no respect for the rights and dignity of other humans. They have no belief in what is morally right and wrong and consider themselves above any law and kill others with impunity.
As in the past, evil is with us every day. Good people of virtue must unite to defeat evil or it will defeat us. We learn of this evil by observing the present and remembering the past. In several countries today, mass murders and genocides are taking place. Blameless people are shot and murdered by agents of state with impunity and depraved malice.
The special day, 27 January, is when we recall the horrific mass murders of recent history, only seventy years ago. We honor and remember the victims and survivors of the most horrific evil genocide, the Holocaust when six million Jewish people and a million more of other groups were executed, abused, violated, exterminated in the most heinous ways devised by evil-minded Nazi people.
There are today small groups of Neo-Nazi gangs that are white supremacists that abuse with racist words and acts of violence against immigrants and people of color in Europe and the United States.
The memorial is held to honor and uphold the dignity and memory of the millions who were brutally killed. Their human rights were stripped from them. They were arrested, robbed, abused, jailed and driven like cattle to the slaughter. They suffered greatly and died after torture, execution, and a million gassed to death in crowded gas chambers.
This massacre was perpetrated by the German Nazi regime under the killer and murderer Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. The brutal murder of six million Jewish people and millions of others killed in the āFinal Solutionā was devised by Hitler to rid Europe of the Jewish people whom he hated.
His fanatical racism knew no limit. He falsely believed the German Aryan people were the supreme and purest of people and all others were branded as inferior degenerates and had to be exterminated.
The industrial power of Germany was mobilized by the dictator Adolf Hitler, a fanatical leader of Germany, who was elected to power by 44 percent of the vote and had a strong following. Yet, millions of good Germans rejected him and opposed his regime. (To be con tinued)/PN
