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There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity. I suppose it could be some sort of elaborate ruse b

by astine 17y ago

There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity. I suppose it could be some sort of elaborate ruse being forced on us by older generations, crazier myths have formed. But, I find it more likely that the Shoah happened.

Tichy 17y ago
"There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity." That is just emotions though, not science. There are gruesome pictures from any war - I think few POW camps were very pleasant, for example. At the Kosovo war there were also fake pictures from concentration camps distributed by the mainstream press. Again I don't want to deny the killings, I just feel there are things missing from the story. For example, if all the nazis wanted was to kill, why have concentration camps to begin with. Why were there any survivors at all? I suppose they made the able ones work for the war effort, but then you mention the near death - presumably they were not that able to work anymore.
- sethg 17y ago
  Excerpts from Goebbels's diary: February 14, 1942: The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness. March 27, 1942: The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only 40 per cent can be used for forced labor. (quoted in http://www.nizkor.org/qar-complete.cgi http://www.nizkor.org/qar-complete.cgi)

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There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity. I suppose it could be some sort of elaborate ruse b

by astine 17y ago

Tichy 17y ago
"There are enough photographs of near death, emaciates being rescued from the camps to satisfy my curiosity." That is just emotions though, not science. There are gruesome pictures from any war - I think few POW camps were very pleasant, for example. At the Kosovo war there were also fake pictures from concentration camps distributed by the mainstream press. Again I don't want to deny the killings, I just feel there are things missing from the story. For example, if all the nazis wanted was to kill, why have concentration camps to begin with. Why were there any survivors at all? I suppose they made the able ones work for the war effort, but then you mention the near death - presumably they were not that able to work anymore.
- sethg 17y ago
  Excerpts from Goebbels's diary: February 14, 1942: The Führer once again expressed his determination to clean up the Jews in Europe pitilessly. There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about it. The Jews have deserved the catastrophe that has now overtaken them. Their destruction will go hand in hand with the destruction of our enemies. We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness. March 27, 1942: The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only 40 per cent can be used for forced labor. (quoted in http://www.nizkor.org/qar-complete.cgi http://www.nizkor.org/qar-complete.cgi)