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Ljubelj Concentration Camp

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The Ljubelj Labor Camp was the only camp on Slovenian territory during the Second World War. It was one of 49 branches not far from Linz operating Mauthausen concentration camp. In the labor camp, in the years 1943-1945, under the impossible conditions, more than a thousand prisoners built the tunnel of Ljubelj today. The first internees began arriving in July 1943. Most of them were French, and besides, there were Poles, Russians, Yugoslavs, Czechs, Norwegians, Greeks, Belgians, Italians, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Germans, Austrians. Most were political prisoners, and some were interned for refusing forced labor or for raids. The Germans and Austrians with a criminal history were assigned managerial tasks. easier work. To erase the trail of their atrocities, the Germans demolished the camp. In memory and reminder of the horrors of war, the suffering of the prisoners at the edge of the park stands a memorial arena of the skeleton with a living heart in the middle and the inscription J’ACCUSE.

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  2. It reminds me of the Sobibor concentration camp. Humans can be cruel and emotionless.
    History is meant to teach us lessons but we never seem to learn. We always desire to fight and subject others to slavery.

    • Thanks for watching and kind comment, my friend….maybe he really just wasn’t that destructive anyway … they needed internals here to work … they didn’t mass kill them …obviously it will never really teach us

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    • Thank you for your visit and nice comment, my friend…or news of the atrocities of Hitler and the Gestapo across Europe did not reach you

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  5. We need memorials like this one to remind us that we can become monsters if we allow people to convince us into fighting against each other, be it war or any form of terrorism.

    • Thanks for watching and kind comment, dear Dawn…I totally agree with you, but unfortunately the memories of the atrocities do not go down
       

  6. From personal experience, i know this place. I know the times and I sadly wish they were gone and had never happened.

    But they did (and they continue to happen. The world can be cruel.

    • Thank you for your visit and nice comment, my friend…really sad but sorry really…Unfortunately, similar atrocities are happening in many places around the world, except that they are not so massive

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      • They all horrible. What happened in Cambodia removed 60% of the population of the entire country. What happened in Rowanda, removed more than 40% of all the people.

        Those that blithely go about their days and do not remember. Now should those times are gone.

        Sadly things are worse now.

        • I do not know what leads people to such atrocities and massacres …. I still understand war just to get at the innocent civilian population (children, women, old people), but I cannot understand it and I will never

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    • Thanks for viewing and kind comment, my friend…i agree … this is a reminder that something like this would never happen again

    • Thanks for viewing and kind comment, dear Maria…very sad and at the same time warning that something like this would never happen again