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To: dfwgator
Some thirty years ago I worked with a young guy who at that time had been in the Army in the late’70s and spent a year stationed in West Germany. As part of his deployment there he and some of his friends were taken to see Dachau Concentration Camp. He told me that even after over thirty years years you could still smell the stench of burnt flesh. That made a deep impression on him he said. He also said the thing that shook him the most was seeing ‘’fingernail scratch marks on the walls''. To me the sheer and utter terrifying panic of people trying to literally tear their way through a concrete wall is beyond nightmarish. God help the moron who ever says within ear shot of me that the Holocaust didn't happen. I'll be arrested.
54 posted on 09/20/2014 5:49:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa
To me the sheer and utter terrifying panic of people trying to literally tear their way through a concrete wall is beyond nightmarish. God help the moron who ever says within ear shot of me that the Holocaust didn't happen. I'll be arrested.

My thinking as well. I remember an Austrian guard interviewed on TV who was at one of those camps recall how, when they opened the doors of the gas chambers, saw a bluish wisp of smoke over a pyramid of bodies. The poor devils scrambled over each other trying to get to fresh air. He took one look and said it was his image of Hell, and refused to work there, even under threat of going to the Russian front.

He said women who were near term aborted and the fetuses were mixed in with the bodies. They had prisoners whose job it was to probe the body cavities of the dead for any gold or other valuables the condemned had hidden in their bodies. You had to wonder at how people could perform such tasks and keep their dignity, let alone their sanity.

[sidebar] I was just a 12-year-old kid in 1945 when the veterans came home. One guy mentioned how, despite the horror of the camps, he could handle it - until he went into a room that had a bin that was full of baby shoes. He went outside and shot dead a couple of German prisoners and said that even after he found they were innocent, being sent there a day or two before the end of the war, he felt no guilt. As far as he was concerned, they should have plowed Germany uder and salted the earth.

55 posted on 09/20/2014 6:14:23 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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