Holocaust Memorial Day - Auschwitz stands for remembrance and as a warning of where political extremism leads

Soviet troops liberated the Auswitz-Birkenau death camp on January 27th, 1945. Those troops were the first from outside Nazi Germany to see the horrors of the holocaust. The Soviet soldiers found 7000 men, women and children, starving, traumatized, close to death. Their tormentors had abandoned the camp and the "Final Solution", as the Nazi policy to deport and murder the Jews of Europe was called. More than a million people were killed in Auswitz,.most of them Jews. But among the victims of the gas chambers were also many thousands of gypsies, political prisoners and Soviet prisoners of war. Germany's industrial scale killing machine, stands for remembrance and as a warning of where political extremism leads.