Holocaust Remembrance Day

Read Atlas Shrugs' post about Holocaust Remembrance Day. Pamela writes: "Never in my lifetime did I imagine that this day would become an historical refutation of the new lie." In 1945, General Eisenhower visited the concentration camps. He "understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable. For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, “I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a 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.’”