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Inside the Nazi death camp for WOMEN: Injected with petrol, infected with syphilis...
Daily Mail ^ | Jan 9, 2015 | Sarah Helm

Posted on 01/10/2015 4:56:06 AM PST by Islander7

Full title: "Inside the Nazi death camp for WOMEN: Injected with petrol, infected with syphilis and raped by their liberators, the shocking fate of prisoners at Ravensbruck"

Katharina Waitz stared at the 15ft wall topped by barbed wire, took a deep breath and, undaunted, began to climb the last leg to freedom.

She was one of the handful of inmates of Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women, ever to break out, and it took the ultimate in daring high-wire acts for her to get away.

A trapeze artist by profession, the crime that consigned her to this grimmest of places was simply that she was a gipsy and therefore classified by Hitler’s Third Reich as a degenerate whose very existence polluted the pure Aryan gene pool.

Twice this brave young woman tried to escape and was caught, spending months of torture in the camp’s punishment block.

Undeterred, she tried again. Under cover of darkness, she somehow slipped past the SS guards and their vicious Alsatian dogs and up on to the roof of the staff canteen.

From there, she used all her circus skills to climb the electric fence, wrapping a blanket round the live wires. Then she clambered over five rows of barbed wire and a 15ft wall before fleeing into the forest

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: history; nazi; war
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To: Islander7

If the enemy islamist øbama really had his way....


21 posted on 01/10/2015 6:51:19 AM PST by onedoug
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

When my daughter studied in Italy in HS, we visited the Campo Fossolli near Carpi, Italy. I didn’t have any I sea that there were German camps that far south.

Campo di Fossoli was a deportation camp in Italy during World War II. It began as a prisoner of war camp, later being a Jewish concentration camp, then a police and transit camp, and finally a labour collection centre for Germany. 2844 Jews passed through this camp, 2802 having been then deported.


22 posted on 01/10/2015 7:05:39 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Savage Beast
It was not the only blow. There were others: wars, slavery,

Not slavery. Slavery was a commonplace in ALL cultures. The West's unique handling of slavery was to end it in the lands they controlled. This is a positive aspect of the West, which also has moved towards freeing its minorities and its women.
23 posted on 01/10/2015 7:12:45 AM PST by Nepeta
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To: rrrod

>>no different than today’s registered Democrats..NONE!

That’s why I mentioned the Progressives acting like fledgling nazis and bolsheviks—because Progs ARE fledgling nazis and bolsheviks.


24 posted on 01/10/2015 7:13:26 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: rrrod

She has good reason to be afraid again, My FRiend. Obama is not the problem. He is the symptom and manifestation of the problem. The problem is the character, morals, and principles of those who put him in power. If you have any children or grandchildren, you should fear for them and have them to prepare both physically and mentally. Why ? Because it is them that Obama’s minions are going to release the hoards of muslims that are currently raping, murdering, and pillaging in Africa, Europe, and the Mid East upon here in the USA. How far in the future it will be I can’t say, but I know it is coming. That is why he so desperately wants “immigration reform”, not for the Mexicans. Not for the South and Central Americans. Not for the Europeans. But for the muslims.


25 posted on 01/10/2015 7:17:46 AM PST by sport
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To: Bryanw92

Hitler modeled his genocide programs from our own Margaret Singer, the heroine of the abortion movement and Democrat Party.


26 posted on 01/10/2015 7:21:13 AM PST by sport
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To: Louis Foxwell

The media and academia


27 posted on 01/10/2015 7:30:35 AM PST by redangus
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To: Nepeta
Of course you're right. Western Civilization abolished slavery, some things that much of the world--notably the Muslim world, has not done yet.

However Western decadents consider the tolerance of slavery in the USA--at all--to represent a failure. I must admit that I'm aghast myself when I contemplate it. But at least you and I have the wits to understand the triumph of Western Civilization in abolishing it. They don't.

28 posted on 01/10/2015 7:41:03 AM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

How many alphabet agencies are there? How many are new?

The mechanisms are fully in place, it’s just a matter of time, FRiend.


29 posted on 01/10/2015 8:49:08 AM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Islander7

ping


30 posted on 01/10/2015 9:09:12 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Islander7
Shooting and poisoning took too long. Gassing was quicker.

In what world is gassing people in a chamber, then having to laboriously remove the bodies and put them into a crematorium "faster" than shooting people at the grave edge and pushing them in?

I don't doubt the gassing happened, I just find a lot of the explanations given for it ludicrous.

I've even heard the claim that Jews were hauled for a thousand miles, using desperately needed transport resources, to "save ammunition."

31 posted on 01/10/2015 10:01:48 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: driftdiver

The number of deniers is gaining. Soon no one will believe these stories. What hurt was the number of supposed “holocaust” victims who were NOT. This only aided the naysayers in their theory that the Jews were trying to concoct a story to gain the world’s support. To be honest, most of the so-called victims, who were not real holocaust victims were actually Germans. And, some of them, according to their ages could NOT have been victims had people looked into their “facts”.

People today are far more willing to believe concocted stories than the truth.


32 posted on 01/10/2015 10:48:33 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: redangus

Media and Prof’s? I do not think so.
The Brownshirts and Bolshevics were thugs. Their job was to terrorize the public. The chaos they created ushered in a police state. The first job was to both bring the B’s under control and destroy those who could not be controlled. In Russia the Bolshevics were slaughtered. In Gernmany they were cvoopted into the police state. What followed was rigid tyranny.
Who are the street thugs in our culture? They are gangs. Imagine them turned loose to rape and plunder. A police state would soon follow.


33 posted on 01/10/2015 10:59:08 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: driftdiver

Good read. Thanks for posting!


34 posted on 01/10/2015 11:51:59 AM PST by Bill Russell
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To: Shery

You sound like a denier.


35 posted on 01/10/2015 12:28:20 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Savage Beast
However Western decadents consider the tolerance of slavery in the USA--at all--to represent a failure. I must admit that I'm aghast myself when I contemplate it. But at least you and I have the wits to understand the triumph of Western Civilization in abolishing it. They don't.

Slavery as practiced in the US was nowhere near the horror as was done elsewhere. Males were castrated in the middle east. In South America (Brazil did not get rid of slavery until 1888!) the treatment of slaves was so harsh that more of them had to be constantly imported because they died. In the US, after about 1800, importation was illegal, and the numbers of slaves actually grew. I am NOT saying they were well-treated, but they were not so badly treated that they were dying off.

No, it is not an unstained history, but compare it to the refusal of Japan to confront their imperial past.
36 posted on 01/10/2015 12:53:37 PM PST by Nepeta
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To: Nepeta
Of course, things could always be worse. But slavery is an unspeakable atrocity and evil--one of the greatest evils ever devised by man or the devil. I understand how it came about, but I'm still aghast.

BTW--my grandfather fought for the Confederacy and refused ever to sign the oath of allegiance to the Union. He was not a slave owner, and neither was his father. His father-in-law, my great-grandfather, was outspoken against slavery and strongly opposed to it; he considered it a sin. If my grandfather were alive today, he would be in support of secession from the Union for the same reasons he did then.

37 posted on 01/10/2015 1:57:52 PM PST by Savage Beast (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: Savage Beast
Of course, things could always be worse. But slavery is an unspeakable atrocity and evil--one of the greatest evils ever devised by man or the devil. I understand how it came about, but I'm still aghast.

Slavery is an abomination. At the founding of this country, there were grave misgivings about the continuation of slavery, something we typically are not taught. Less than 100 years later, it was gone. Remember, it still exists in the world; I suggest you direct your horror towards those places.

I, too, have CSA veterans in my pedigree. When I was in my 40s, I discovered I also had slaveowners there. But I did not do those things--and I do not even know the names of those who did. I am part of this world, this time, and I have no guilt about what ancestors did.

But I don't have any sick Scarlett O'Hara fantasies about living in the mansion with slaves waiting on me, either.
38 posted on 01/10/2015 2:05:39 PM PST by Nepeta
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