Holocaust and its horrors real
 Today, there is a persistent claim that the Holocaust didn't actually happen. Well, it really did happen. It was real. I saw it.
I was a liaison-observation pilot in World War II, flying off a chain link runway in a pear orchard in Holland when the Allied Forces crossed the Rhine River and captured the major Luftwaffe air base in Weisbaden, Germany. We established our flight headquarters there for the remainder of the war.
About the third week in April 1945, I was assigned the mission of flying the medical inspecting officer to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. This, only a matter of days after the camp was liberated by U. S. troops. What we saw there was absolutely horrible.
For the full column, see Page 6A of this week's Citizen.
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Leonard Gray is a retired foreign missionary. If you would like to talk to him about this or any other religion related subject, you may call him at (318) 299-7610. |
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