Millions Of Nazi Docs Opened To Public

[William769]

AP) The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.

“I saw with my own eyes how thousands of Jews were gassed daily and thrown by the hundreds into pits where Jews were burning,” he said.

“I saw how little children were killed with sticks and thrown into the fire,” he continued. Blood flowed in gutters, and “Jews were thrown in and died there”; more were taken off trucks and cast alive into the flames.

Today the Holocaust is known in dense and painful detail. Yet the young Russian's words leap off the faded, onionskin page with a rawness that transports the reader back to April 1945, when World War II was still raging and the world still knew little about gas chambers, genocide and the Final Solution.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/18/world/main2199121.shtml

[Taxloss]

1. Chilling.

A pity that this is sinking in GD. Kick and rec.

[William769]

2. I agree.

and thanks for the kick.

[Swede]

3. “We have identified somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 camps and ghettos of various categories,

Postwar historians estimated about 5,000 to 7,000 detention sites. But after the Cold War ended, records began pouring out of the former communist nations of East Europe. More sites were disclosed in the last six years in claims by 1.6 million people for slave labor reparations from a $6.6 billion fund financed by the German government and some 3,000 industries.

“We have identified somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 camps and ghettos of various categories,” said Geoffrey Megargee of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, who is compiling a seven-volume encyclopedia of these detention centers.

[Gelliebeans]

4. A big K&R

[Disturbed]

5. Has there been an explanation of why it took so many years

for these documents to surface?

[Gelliebeans]

6. Did you mean to reply to my post ?

:shrug: :)

[Rage for Order]

7. There must be a line a mile long at Bush's Crawford ranch

Of people waiting to read these documents.

[calimary]

13. Actually, I thought they might be talking about all those presidential

papers that bush ordered sealed a few minutes after he "took" the Oval Office. The reagan papers were about to go public. The usual embargo had pretty much run out. He had 'em all locked back up - including the papers of his daddy's presidency.

I STILL want to know what's in those papers. And why he was in such a hurry to deep-six them. I think it would be MOST informative reading.

[tomreedtoon]

8. So none of you ever read "Medical Block Buchenwald?"

My older brother had that while I was in junior high. They didn't even know about the book at my school, which was roughly 90 percent Jewish. They looked weird at me when I told them about the book, and I was surprised they hadn't been given this basic history.

It's a harsh book, but it also describes some peculiarities in the system. Like, why on earth did "political" prisoners - people who were the political opponents of the Nazis - given priority and relatively safe havens over Jews, gypsies and homosexuals? Was political disagreement less awful to the Nazis than the other categories?

That book, and several picture books my brother kept about the death camps, gave me an early understanding of the way the world works. So no, this thing didn't surprise me.

[Ms. Clio]

9. k&r n/t

[951-Riverside]

10. Anything on Gustav Schwarzenegger?

[immerlinks]

11. Silly me ...

I though the bush administration came clean and released some of their incriminating documents. Guess we'll have to wait a few more months for that.

[drm604]

12. K&R

:kick:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

14. Interesting article. K&R.

[leftofthedial]

15. Oh. I thought you meant they released the docs

from the bush library

[133724]

16. Any thing on Prescott Bush?????

[freeplessinseattle]

17. kick n/t