Today, January 27, is designated Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this day in 1945, the Red Army finally liberated the tortured souls at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland as WWII came to an end. More than one million victims at that camp did not live to see their rescuers’ approach, killed by gas chambers, starvation, death marches, and brutal forced labor. Soldiers present at the liberation later shared haunting reflections about the horrors they witnessed upon reaching Auschwitz. In the intervening years, a rallying cry of “Never Again” echoed… but have we truly learned? 

In Germany 

In the 1930s and 40s in Germany, hatred was brewing. A calculated effort was underway by skilled propagandists to isolate certain populations and paint them as sub-human. Undesirable. Disposable. Even dangerous. The Nazis used the popular media of the time to make their message pervasive and mainstream: radio, newspaper, film, magazines, and rallies. The “marketing department” of the Third Reich was so effective that neighbors turned on neighbors, and regular German citizens seemed to quickly fall in line with the “Final Solution”—including the Hitler Youth, young people who were systematically indoctrinated to accept and promote violence against targeted populations.  

Yet, the average German did not know what was going on in the concentration camps. The Nazis intentionally hid the grisly reality of their “Final Solution” from the general population, placing their death camps in isolated areas and keeping the PR message one of “cleansing” and “fixing” — not photos of emaciated men and women in gas chambers. 
 

It’s difficult to make the case that we’ve changed, as an eerily similar summary can be presented for the rise of abortion in America. 

In America 

From the 1910s through the 1960s in America, a dark agenda was brewing. A calculated effort was underway by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and her eugenicist, Nazi-sympathizing friends like Lothrop Stoddard to pit parents and children against each other. Sanger and pals strategized tirelessly to propagandize the notion that some populations, sub-human “weeds,” weren’t fit to reproduce, and that a certain population—babies—were undesirable. Disposable. Even dangerous, to parents who would be over-burdened by them.  

Sanger and later generations of “feminists” working towards widespread abortion used the popular media of the time (starting with newspaper and magazine and landing today on smart phones & influencer accounts) to make their message pervasive and mainstream. The abortion lobby’s “marketing department” has been so effective that neighbors turn on neighbors, canceling, doxing, and even attacking those opposed to abortion; celebrities profess abortion from national stages; and many children are raised to believe that it’s okay for the strong to dictate the value of the weak.  

Now What? 

It doesn’t do well to compare tragedies. Any human being treated less than their inherent dignity demands is an individual tragedy.  

But on a global scale, the attempt to exterminate an entire race and the attempt to exterminate life in the womb in number so large that more than 63 million lost to abortion vendors in America alone deserves a solemn moment. How fitting that the National Pro-Life March falls so close on the calendar to Holocaust Remembrance Day.  

We can do better. The abortion movement was launched by people who studied and admired the Nazis (even Chemical Abortion has its roots in the same pharmaceutical company responsible for the gas chambers), and the Third Reich rhetoric about the target population being “sub-human” is identical to today’s abortion lobby. No more need die because we fail to learn from the mistakes of generations past.

Chillingly, and in a dark irony, that post-Holocaust cry of “Never Again” is now uttered by abortion supporters to promote their agenda of violence towards those deemed inconvenient, undesirable, and sub-human. It’s time to take that back and instead “Never Again” accept the execution of a defenseless baby.