Nazi Hackers Target Concentration Camp Sites

The attacks were reported to police, and authorities in Berlin are working diligently to find and punish those responsible. The Memorials Foundation has restored at least portions of both sites, although the true extent of the damage has yet to be determined. One of the messages left on the site menacingly threatened that the attackers would "be back," so it's safe to assume that the site's security is being buttressed in anticipation of a follow-up attack. We are saddened that these peaceful sites, intended for healing, have been so defaced. [From: Reuters and Memorials Foundation]





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Subscribe to commentsjohn shantzJul 29th 2010 9:04AM
While we don't need any Nazi resurrection, it does seem that the holocaust industry is rather overdoing it. When they started building a $400 million centre in a city of 600,000 in the middle of the Canadian prairie you know its over the top.
michaelAug 1st 2010 2:29PM
It's un fortunate that people such as John Shantz want to forget the past so that it can be repeated
JEB BUCKINGHAMAug 1st 2010 2:38PM
It's a sad day when small-minded people like John Shantz with his limited education post comments like "the holocaust industry is over-doing it a bit". Don't you think that the German Nazis OVERDID it a bit when they exterminated multi-millions of Jewish people? The holocaust industry will NEVER be able to overdo it as far as I'm concerned. Remember the sign above the entrance to Auschwitz Concentration Camp that says, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it". Don't forget, John Shantz!
BHAug 1st 2010 3:15PM
thus the reason for memorials and "history reminders".....to educate the young in order for them not to allow history to repeat itself....would you sleep better if it cost only $100 million?.....it will serve a purpose
SharonAug 1st 2010 4:21PM
It would be interesting to know how old you are and whether any of your loved ones were victims of the Holocaust. I visited the Nazi underground "hospital" in the Channel Islands. Seeing for yourself the means by which the victims were tortured, murdered and disposed of might make you reconsider whether or not the survivors have gone "over the top." No one in my family perished in the Holocaust, but 6,000,000 others did.
anneAug 1st 2010 4:35PM
To John Shantz: You want to erase the memories so the holocaust could reoccur? Too bad you do not think before you speak.
LindaAug 1st 2010 5:28PM
Excuse me...The "Holocaust Industry"!!!! Another Anti-Semite masquerading as some sort of understanding human being. You're pitiful!
LynnAug 1st 2010 6:17PM
The following is a famous poem was written by a German Lutheran pastor that spent 7 years in a concentration camp.
It is on the wall in the attendance office at my daughter's school. I think it's a powerful reminder of why we must be vigilant in making sure nothing like this happens again. The only way we are going to remember all these years later is by building and maintaining the holocaust memorials.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out
-Martin Niemoller
ParaldahydeAug 1st 2010 6:38PM
On the contrary, John; it clearly illustrates the undeniable and essential importance of remembering these events. The psychology behind these memorials is absolutely imperative in our world, despite your disagreement.
TBAug 1st 2010 7:26PM
Did they use your money to build it? Did they use Iminante Domain to aquire the Land or did they otherwise infringe on your rights as an individual. If not then shut up for their rights were cut out for many years and several million of them KILLED because of nothing more than who they were. So crawl back under your rock.
TCAug 1st 2010 2:20PM
John, why would you say such a thing?
What happened is Germany is THE worst inhumane horrors ever.
Besides, how much do we hear in this country about slavery and they families wanting americans to make up for that. EVERYDAY.
So, why shouldnt the jews do whatever it takes to make sure we dont forget what happened to them.
The only people that dont keep harping on what happened to them is the American Indian. And they are the ones that should.
spanshkingAug 1st 2010 2:29PM
Well said TC!
WILLAug 1st 2010 6:15PM
ACTUALY STALIN EXECUTED 20,000,000 3 TIMES THE AMOUNT HITLER DID
ottoAug 1st 2010 6:12PM
listen, i understand what happened to the jews during world war 2 was horrible, but john does have a point. instead of making huge centers, why not make a shrine here and there. why not educate students in school. as far as people in america complaining, completly unjustified. they complain that becuase their ancestors were mistreated, they deserve to get whatever. it didnt happen to them! they dont know the pains! in fact by dping what they do they make it worse. and native americans, you have to respect them. they realise they gotta move on. and besides, the americas were exactly great befpre the whiteman came along. one tribe would inslave the other and even eat the other tribes captured people. tribes would take land from each other. the cheyene took most of their land from black something. remember what happened, just dont use it as an excuse for everything. and dont say im callous and am an idiot or something, i just dis agree with you. i know what those people faced were atrocious.
ParaldahydeAug 1st 2010 6:41PM
I am in 100% agreement with you, TC. (It's unfortunate that "replies" don't appear under posts to which they refer.)
spanshkingAug 1st 2010 2:26PM
How did we get off the subject on defacing one of the worst occurrences in the history of mankind to President Obama? What a Moron!
Tom ColeAug 1st 2010 4:37PM
Kiddo, look who is the moron on this Sunday.
RiognachAug 1st 2010 2:27PM
"Those who do not study history are compelled to repeat it". Those who do will find other ways to screw up. John obviously hasn't any relatives who needed to escape from the nazis, has no family members who were tortured and murdered, has no understanding of what this means to Jewish families who suffered losses, wish to honour their dead and make sure it never, ever happens again anywhere to any one else. I'm not Jewish, but my husband is, and what I do understand is that John and his ilk believe that nazi war crimes will never be repeated and cannot happen here. wrong.
SamAug 1st 2010 2:30PM
Saul, is Obama drilling for Nazis? I'm confused. What on earth does this have to do with the post?
N2Aug 1st 2010 2:37PM
HAVING LIVED WITH CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVORS I CAN SAY THAT THE COWARDS THAT DO THESE KINDS OF THINGS ARE THE STINK OF THE EARTH. THEY WOULDNT HAVE SURVIVED FOR A MONTH. IT TOOK COURAGE TO LIVE WHEN YOUR PARENTS, SISTERS AND BROTHERS, AND CHILDREN WERE INDISCRIMATLY KILLED BY THE VERMIN NAZI'S. EVEN GERMANY IS EMBARASED BY THOSE MURDERING CHIKEN S--TS.
THE ANIMALS THAT DID THIS HIDE BEHIND LACK OF EDUCATION AND A CULT THAT FEEDS ON HATE. THEY DENY WHAT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND AND DONT HAVE THE SMARTS TO RESEARCH THE TRUTH.