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NOT A PEEP ABOUT THE SOVIET GULAGS WHERE 60 MILLION CHRISTIANS DIED... Pope again invokes Holy Holocaust® Pope: Nazi concentration camps a symbol of evil Associated Press Monday, 10 August 2009 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that Nazi concentration camps were "extreme symbols of evil" and hell on earth.  WORK WOULD MAKE HIM FREE — The pope is seen during a pilgrimage to the hallowed Auschwitz internment site. The German-born pontiff, who
was forced to join the Hitler Youth, was remembering two saints who had
died at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
"The Nazi (death camps)*, like any extermination camps, can be considered extreme symbols of evil," Benedict said. They are a symbol of "the hell that comes to earth when man forgets God and replaces him, usurping his right to decide what is right and what is wrong, to give life and death," Benedict told pilgrims gathered for Sunday's traditional Angelus prayer. The pope cited two 20-century figures who were canonized under his predecessor, Pope John Paul II: Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was [executed] at Auschwitz and made a saint in 1998; and Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar who sacrificed his life at the death camp so that a man with a family could live and was made a saint in 1982. Benedict visited the Auschwitz concentration camp during a trip to Poland in May 2006. He said at the time that he was coming as "a son of the German people" and asked God why he remained silent during the "unprecedented mass crimes" of the Holocaust®. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggOFb366n0kVKplxtYezxRn8kNxAD99VDMDG0 * Unlike the Soviet gulags, provision was made at these "Nazi death camps" for
such amenities as swimming pools and orchestra halls, as well as food
rations
comparable to those of the German civilian population at the time.
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