Germany re-opens Buchenwald and Dachau

[Raoul]

You can't make this stuff up...

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/30/germany-is-housing-refugees-within-holocaust-era-concentration-camps/?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e&hpid=z10

[Caster]

Well, they ain't making land anymore.  What are they supposed to do, let it sit vacant?  

 

Don't know why people would get all upset.  That crap happened and you can't change history.  The world should let it go.  Get busy living or get busy dying.  

[daddyo]

Whenever something that was created for evil can be used for good, that's a good thing, isn't it?

[Caster]

Dang right Daddyo,

One of the greatest example in my opinion were all the nazi made (and marked) Mausers that got a nice big Star of David stamped on them and used by the Israelis for a time. That was ironic beauty at its best.

[DaveTN]

On Thursday, German newspaper Handelsblatt commented that the real, underlying problem was far worse than the accommodation of refugees in former death camps: "The use of decaying buildings, containers or even tents as refugee centers does neither enable people to live in dignity, nor will it promote assimilation."

So put them up in Five Star hotels.

[Mark A]

I'm ok with using existing buildings to fix a housing problem. It is either that or bulldoze the land and make it a park.

 

However, it is inevitable that these places will become dens of radical fundamentalists that will plot to overthrow the German government.

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

I think  they need to bulldoze it.. put  up a memorial ..

end of story.. its not going to change anything and given the atrocities that where committed  in those buildings.. make them go away.

[SupaRice]

Dachau (and presumably others, but I've only been to dachau) actually housed liberated prisoners for an extended period of time after the war's close. They were ill, malnurished, and a lot of the places they called home prior to imprisonment laid in ruins... so there was no where else to go.

How'd that make you feel, survive only to have nowhere else to go... if you were even able.

[Hershmeister]

Terrible - these places are memorials now. It shows a level of crassness. Surely there were other options

[frankmako]

learn from history and move on.  

[Tncobra]

Id rather stay there than with my inlaws, just sayin.

[tennesseetiger]

Never play cards with a guy named Doc and never elect a guy named Hitler.

I say bulldoze them and turn them into parks, memorial, etc. Having people sleep in those buildings just isnt right in my opinion.

[railfancwb]

If it wasn't for the overwhelming numbers of "refuges" this wouldn't be happening.

Wouldn't happen in the States. The Feds had Oklahoma and Waco and World Trade Center cleaned up before evidence gathering was done.