A young man's courageous stand against the darkness
Last Wednesday (27th) was a special anniversary that reminds the world of unspeakable evil. On January 27, 1945 an advance group of scouts who broke away from their unit in Oswiecim in Poland, arrived at the gates of Auschwitz. It was the day that the advancing Red Army began the liberation of the remaining living skeletons at the German death camp. And these first days of February celebrate another important date in the history books. On February 2, 1943 the Germans surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad on the River Volga. It was that great victory that allowed the Russians to move west,...
Source: independent.ie