Here’s a Metafilter link to the newly-discovered photo album of senior SS officers from Auschwitz relaxing and enjoying themselves (also at normblog) in today’s NYT.
Here’s the second comment in:
Wow. I was about to ask how they could be so full of smiles while on the grounds of unspeakable evil. And yet here I sit listening to music and reading the internet while Gitmo and Iraq continue.
Whatever your views on Iraq, there’s something, I think, quite repulsive about that.
It’s not so much the stupidity of the comparison…more the smug self-absorption masquerading as guilt, which manages somehow to miss the whole point of what we’re being shown here, and to trivialise the memory of the Holocaust.
Mick Hartley 
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