The day the world recalls the evils of the German people

Today is International Holocaust Day, the day the world remembers the atrocities of the Germans in the Hitler years.

It was  on this day in 1945 that the Soviet 322nd Rifle Division threw open the gates at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. The Soviet Army was racing to Berlin.

And on the same date the previous year the 872-day Leningrad siege was lifted, a significant day in World War II in defeating the marauding Germans.