“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
@Strandjunker Sharing before the reply guys interject that Eisenhower’s visit and sentiment were real even if the quote isn’t verbatim.
> I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eisenhower-proof-nazi-atrocities/
Funny, today there was a new documentary on swedish telly: The untold story of a Swedish project shortly after World War II that collected testimonies about Nazi crimes. In the spring of 1945, a lecturer at Lund University, gathered a group of Holocaust survivors to collect and document the testimonies of other survivors who came to Sweden when the war ended. The testimonies then became evidence in trials against Nazi war criminals.
https://www.svtplay.se/video/jmL9YwB/vittnena-som-fallde-bodlarna

Den okända historien om ett unikt svenskt projekt strax efter andra världskriget som samlade in vittnesmål om nazisternas brott. Våren 1945 samlade Zygmunt Lakocinski, lektor vid Lunds universitet, en grupp förintelseöverlevare för att samla in och dokumentera vittnesmålen från andra överlevare som kom till Sverige då kriget tog slut. Vittnesmålen blev sedan bevis i rättegångar mot nazistiska krigsförbrytare. Lakocinskis arkiv, eller Ravensbrückarkivet som det kallas, finns bevarat på Lunds universitetsbibliotek och är en världsunik samling vittnesmål om koncentrationslägrens fasor som fortfarande är aktuellt för forskningen.
@eq When the allied forces freed Austria from Nazi rule, they quickly set up exhibitions and movie screenings showing the crimes the National Socialist regime and its collaborators had committed.
These are posters from Viennese archives:
@knwlkr @Strandjunker saved everyone a click.
"I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'."
Thanks! 🙇♀️✌️💙
One helluva appropriate quote.
He had it right, like many things…
& let's document what the fascists are doing now to use it to convict them for their crimes against humanity at The Hague. if they are not prosecuted after this, we can just add it to our list of failures as a nation.
@WorldTravelerAll7 @Strandjunker
If they are not prosecuted after this, for the rest of their lives they are going to have to worry about #StreetJustice catching up with them when they least expect it.
“some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” … so they can do it again.