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Mark Robinson is either the most evil lieutenant governor or the most ignorant. How can it ever come to pass that a Holocaust denier is an elected official in any state in America? Holocaust education should be required in all high schools in this country.

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I am so grateful that you are sharing these photos and this history. I will doubtfully ever see these places in person. Thank you for sharing your trip and all it shows. The gravity of these photos and their story leaves me speechless.

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My sentiments exactly, Sandra. All of them. Thank you, Steve.

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This is Horror. This is Fascism. Trump, Robinson, Flynn and many others would delight in seeing their enemies in camps, and then obliterated from existence. Holocaust deniers must be called out NOW.

The photos you shared today reminded me of what I saw and experienced while visiting Camp Dachau in Germany many years ago. It was one of the most solemn days of my life. Never Forget!

Steve you're on the ground throwing hard punches at Holocaust deniers. Gravity. Powerful. Bring it!

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Thank you for sharing this important story. Steven Miller, who is Jewish, ought to be ashamed of himself on a continuing basis. He is an incredible embarrassment to this country and Jewish people all over the world. It’s time he visited the Holocaust Museums in Washington, D.C. and other cities in this country and he ought to take Trump with him .

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The first time I saw Steven Miller I knew he had a powerfully formed perssonality with a twisted, hateful mind--- thus he was an extermely dangerous person! That was at least a decade ago!. Why has it taken this long for people of the press to wake up to his existence?

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Access. Fucking access!!😡😡

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Stephen Miller would have to live the terror and horror of the Holocaust. He is a sadistic psychopath and does not have the capacity to absorb or understand that horrific history. He would only grasp the reality of the situation if he had to live it. Same for tRump.

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I think the camps could not have been as effective without the participation of IG FARBEN, the corporation that made Zyklon B. In 1942, with the Trading With The Enemy Act the company, with investors in Germany AND THE U.S. was frozen by the US government. All the investors held onto their stock until Bobby Kennedy insisted the stock be auctioned. It sold for more than any other company at the time. At which point, all the investors, who invested knowing that slave labor was used, got their big payout and if they were not already millionaires became millionaires. The investment banker who arranged the US investors was a member of the Bush family.

At the Holocaust Era Assets building in Maryland, where copies of German documents had not yet been destroyed, receipts were found. At Auschwitz/ Birkenau there were documents that prove that The German government sold the Jews it rounded up as slave labor to IG Farben headquartered at Auschwitz. IG Farben created, provided and sold the poison pellets to the German government who in turn used the poison gas to kill the Jews who were too old, too young or simply unusable.

Auschwitz was a business. Almost everything taken from the victims was organized and sold. As Steve mentioned, Kanada was the warehouse where the possessions of the victims were sorted. Human hair was used to stuff pillows and human skin was made into lampshades. Fat was transformed into soap.

IG Farben even had it’s own banking system, with shell corporations all over the world used to launder and obscure the money flowing through them which eventually landed in Chase accounts in Paris, Berlin and New York. Jews, gypsies, political prisoners and homosexuals were classified, labeled, used and then discarded. The were the scapegoats of society.

The role of BIG BUSINESS is not to be overlooked in the Fascist playbook. The KOCH BROTHERS are today’s IG FARBEN.

Follow the money and you will follow the story. A handful of bullies want to divide up the world and steal its spoils. Anyone who is not in the inner circle is up for grabs. What you own will be taken, and you, the evidence, will be destroyed.

That is the Fascist game. To get close to that evil the price is your humanity and your soul.

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Excellent entry. Most Americans, most in here will hear and heed little. They will hear and they will stand mute. Corporations, through extensive advertising and constant mind-fuck, have become to most Americans something like surrogate mommies and daddies, coddily providing their toys and essentials to constantly sing-song advertising fondling. Happily, happily they portray themselves, while currently they fleece their foundlings with bogus high pricing and secretly donating to the MAGA fascist cause. Corporations are fascist in structure and operation. Within their ranks are housed America's oligarchs, and they are headed by sociopathic CEOs. It is the large corporations, fortified by a purchase price Supreme Court and soldier MAGA republicans, that have constructed the reality we must now face, that we must not--no longer--endure. Trump is the bouncing ball.

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Thank you for reiterating big business's role in this history, and pointing out the current actors (Koch, etc.).

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This is good to learn about during this rainy North Carolina day. Learning never stops. My hope is, at least where I live, there are enough decent Americans to turn away from public office those unfit for it.

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Undeniable. Never forget.

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Thank you for your eloquent words, Steve. A fight is coming. We will win again, because evil is based entirely on lies.

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Chilling images - we all need to be reminded of the darkest days in human history; mass, cold blooded, factory processed murder. Anyone who denies it is clearly malignant.

Steven Miller’s Rabbi called him out for his behavior. Billionaire supporters of trump need to also be called out. You simply cannot be Jewish and say you don’t see the signs of Fascism here. Bullshit. What made our country was obviously our Democracy. Without it, there will be no place to hide your assets.

Robinson’s Pastor needs to do the same as Miller’s Rabbi. Members of the various Protestant churches need to step up here. I hear a chilling complacency on the radio waves that is exactly 180 degrees from what Jesus represents. There is dissent though, and it is growing.

Otherwise, we will see unimaginable horrors.

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Thank you for writing about the death camps. How many Americans know? How many Americans care?

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Many fewer than not so long ago, as our parents from the “Greatest Generation” and we, their children, gradually pass from the scene. Our parents witnessed these horrors. We heard their stories. It was a shadow over the years we were growing up. But memories lose their power over time. That is why observations like the ones Mr. Schmidt has been posting are so important and so powerful.

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Not only are there mountains of physical evidence which prove the staggering number of atrocities conducted by the Nazis, there are also reams of documents that do the same. And if that is not enough, one does not have to get far into Mein Kampf to learn that as early as 1923 Hitler had it in his mind to find The "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question". Robinson is an imbecile, and a dangerous one.

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Said to be trump's bedside reading. Alongside his Bible, of course.

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Thanks for keeping the spotlight on the dangers that threaten us, including the most obviously unfit political figures in our midst, Robinson among the head of the pack. Don't underestimate him, though. He has political and oratory talents. Fortunately, he goes off script and reveals the ugly.

Thanks for reminding us of the innocent lives lost. Voting for a holocaust denier is an accomplice to a crime against humanity as you point out. Thank you for your insights, clarity of thought, and keeping the candles burning for those the world lost during that horrible time. Never forget, never again.

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Apr 4Liked by Steve S

Thank you from the bottom of my family’s heart: lo od pa’am, never again.

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Because Majdanek was not destroyed by the Nazis, it remains one of the most intact and impressive testaments to evil that exists today especially the large heap of human ashes not far from the gas chamber and intact ovens. When I think of a political candidate talk about revenge and retribution my mind drifts back to Majdanek, Trebinka Auschwitz and Birkenau. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

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You're doing a great job Steve. A public service. Thank you.

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