Comment Brutal irony must be sought: Russia says it is fighting Nazis, and now it killed a 96-year-old who survived Nazi Germany concentration camps

An old man had not dared to leave his home for many months, says the German newspaper Der Spiegel. He was afraid of coronary infection.

Then Boris Romanthenko, 96, died. He lived in an apartment building in Kharkov, which Russia fired last Friday with some apparently destructive weapon. The Russian army may not have intentionally fired at Romancenko’s house, but it doesn’t matter in terms of the outcome.

Russia seems to be deliberately shooting wherever it hurts. So Russia is killing people roughly.

That’s how Boris Romanchenko died. His home burned down. About death informed on Monday at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial Foundation, which had heard a mourning message from the deceased’s son and grandchild.

Why the grief news was just broadcast by the Buchenwald Memorial Foundation?

Because Romanthenko was a former prisoner of Buchenwald. He was born on January 20, 1926 in northern Ukraine. He was 16 years old when he was arrested by Nazi German occupation forces and taken to forced labor in Germany.

In his old days, Romanchenko had been involved in cherishing the memory of the victims as vice-chairman of the Buchenwald-Dora International Committee.

Dora was in a forced labor camp pretty close to Buchenwald. Romancenko had survived from both camps – as had Peenemünde and Bergen-Belsen.

Romantic there is something incredibly ironic in fate. Vladimir Putin when trying to justify its war as “denacification,” that is, the cleansing of Ukraine of Nazi rule.

The lie is so lewd that etoo. Under the guise of a lie, Russia is also killing the victims of Nazi Germany.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi is, after all, a Jew. Most of his grandfather’s relatives were murdered during the Holocaust.

The victims of the Germans included President Zelensky’s grandfather’s father and mother and three brothers, Washington Post magazine recently. Grandfather himself Semjon Zelenskyifought in the ranks of the Red Army against Nazi Germany.

Buchenwaldin the concentration camp was in Thuringia. Prime Minister of the current Land of Thuringia Bodo Ramelow commented on the death of Boris Romantenko:

“The National Socialists failed to break this great man, to kill him – unlike the Putin regime, which waged an offensive war against Ukraine against international law.”

There is another cruelly ironic feature of Romancenko’s death. Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andri Jermakin according to Romancenko’s home was hit by a “Russian rocket”.

In the forced labor of his youth, Romanchenko had to deal with rockets. He was in the Peenemünde camp, and Peenemünde was the center of the Nazi German rocket program — or, in fact, the entire “cradle of the missile era,” as it is. In the old writing of HS was characterized.

V2 rockets sowed havoc and terror in England in the final stages of World War II. Still, there was no one to solve the war. The rockets were made by forced labor, and the conditions were so appalling that more people died in the manufacture of the rockets than were victims of the rocket attacks.

The rockets killed roughly, even then.

In Berlin During the German Bundestag, MPs held a quiet moment in memory of Boris Romanchenko on Tuesday.

It was a beautiful gesture. The Germans have made an account with their past. It’s been a long road.

The Buchenwald concentration camp was built in the 1930s on the outskirts of Weimar, a traditional German city of culture.

When the dictator Adolf Hitler before starting the war he visited Weimar, he lived in the Hotel Elephant. The crowd gathered in the marketplace to shout: “Lieber Führer, comma, aus dem Elephantenhaus!”

Dear Führer, come out of the Elephant House!

Another after the end of World War, very few memories of being involved shouting. And few admitted to knowing what was being done near Weimar.

Nothing new under the sun. Even now, they don’t know, even if they really know how to know.