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For the first time, at 3:00 A.M. outside, attended a special action. Dante's Inferno seems to me almost a comedy compared to this. They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation for nothing!
Particularly unpleasant was the gassing of the emaciated women from the women's camp, who were generally known as 'Muslims'.
Originally posted by otester
Also I don't mean to be frank, but how do you know that diary isn't a forge?
Originally posted by the smoking beagle
A forge is used for heating up metal so it can be worked, whereas a diary is used to record events. Therefore a diary cannot be a forge.
Orginally posted by the smoking beagle
Does this mean that the writers can claim unbiased insight, or are their political views colouring their perceptions ?
In the same period books were written by non Russians which were favourable to Soviet policy.
Could we say that the non Russian authors were unbiased, or were they merely communist propagandists ?
Originally posted by otester
Originally posted by the smoking beagle
A forge is used for heating up metal so it can be worked, whereas a diary is used to record events. Therefore a diary cannot be a forge.
3. to imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; fabricate a forgery. - dictionary.com
Originally posted by otester
well if they were German would you say they were biased?
Originally posted by otester
Well you do have communists all around the world
Originally posted by otester
After WW2 the rumors of the so called "horrors" thats supposedly went on in Nazi Germany started brewing
Originally posted by otester
those British writers weren't nazis, if they were then they would have ended up in internment camps.
The Czech Conspiracy: a Phase in the World-War Plot. George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers. This book is a Captain of the Royal Dragoons' 1938 account of the situation in Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland, addressing the questions of who wanted war; why; who would profit by it; and how was England concerned? This is the exposé which might have triggered popular resistance in England to British involvement in the War - if only more Englishmen and -women had read it!
Member of Council of Eugenic Society for twenty years; according to his biography in Who Was Who, he was "held political prisoner by the Home Secretary 1940-42"; acc to Malcom Muggeridge: "The house where the unit was stationed belonged to G.H.L. Fox Pitt Rivers who had been interned under Regulation 18b for his pro Hitler attitudes, and in his library there was an elegantly bound presentation copy of Mein Kampf... [Pitt Rivers was] very rich ... [his wife was] an actress ... Mary Hinton" see Lady Forster q.v., (from Chronicles of Wasted Time, Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 391)
The Case for Germany: A Study of Modern Germany. Dr. Arthur Pillans Laurie. This rare 1939 treatise gives the view of National-Socialist Germany that the author, a Scottish scholar, developed during his time inside Hitler's Third Reich. Far from being the sort of hateful diatribe that was the common British judgement in those days, this book gives an insightful overview of National Socialism and of the domestic and foreign-political state of Germany less than 100 days before the outbreak of World War Two
It is a great pleasure to me to introduce the public to Dr. Laurie's valuable book on modern Germany.....He is one of the small group who founded the Association known as "The Link", ...........
He writes of the National Socialist movement with knowledge and great sympathy.
The particular value of this book lies in the fact that it is written by a foreigner, who cannot be accused of patriotic excess in his interpretation of the great work done by Herr Hitler and his associates. I recommend this volume with confidence to all people who are genuinely impressed with the desire to understand one of the greatest - and most bloodless - revolutions in history.
AH HAA! forgery NOT forge....that "ry" at the end makes all the difference!!
you might not be a nazi but you are a holocaust denier. it's your right. How anyone can ignore all the evidence has always been a mystery to me. What I have found is that a lack of education is often an issue. Not just education about World War II but education in general.
Whatever the case, the horrors existed, there were too many survivors and witnesses to these atrocities.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Sorry, but the grand-father of one of my friends personnally liberated Auschwitz, so this website is PURE BS. I trust more someone I know that a website... sorry.
What nationality was his grand-father? American, English?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
What nationality was his grand-father? American, English?
Canadian. Well I don't know if it was Auschwitz... but it was one of the camps, and he was with the first group to open it, it smelled very bad, that was something that hitted him, the smell. He remembered it very vividly.
[edit on 14-2-2007 by Vitchilo]
Yea, I assumed as much. The Americans, Canadians, English, etc did not liberate Auschwitz, the Soviets did.
It makes sense to see a lot of skinny malnutritioned people, many dead as well when the country you have invaded has had a central breakdown of all industry, factories, including agricultural production.
Supply lines cut for weeks, even months on end. Take into account the war was going on its 6th year and the complete collapse of the eastern front in late 43-early 45. The least of your worries would be to feed your prison population when you could barely feed your own soldiers and civilians.