On Holocaust Memorial Day, Hitler and Nazi Metaphors as Prevalent as Ever

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945 Soviet troops liberated survivors at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and in 2005 the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as a day to commemorate victims of the Nazi era. To mark the anniversary, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., plans to hold a candle-lighting ceremony in its Hall of Remembrance. Holocaust memorial events were scheduled for the U.N. building in New York but have been postponed because of the snowstorm. Although many people take this somber occasion to honor the memory of lost ancestors and loved ones, and to strengthen their resolve to stop modern genocide, political discourse in the United States remains rife with casual references and comparisons to Hitler and Nazis.
Click here.  (From Bratprince:  Along with six million Jews, seven million Soviet prisoners...hundreds of thousands of gay people were killed by Hitler and the Nazi's.  They were forced to wear the inverted pink triangle and were the lowest of the low at concentration camps.  Even Jews were cruel to them.  I hope we all remember that the GLBT community figures just as prominently in the Holocaust).

(Also from Bratprince:  If you have never seen this movie...put it on your Netflix.  Heartbreaking)