I highly recommend the book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” and the film “Escape from Sobibor.”
Not the Rudolf Hess that went to England. This one was worse. Thanks for posting, Belzec was just a dot on a very evil map to me before this.
As the current administration proceeds into its sixth year of destruction and the creation of chaos, this historical evidence of horror visited on one of the world’s peoples becomes increasingly relevant.
Specifically, what happens when they come knocking on the door at midnight...?
And Treblinka.
One of my most troubling,other-worldly experiences I’ve ever had was my visit to the Dachau museum on a cold,rainy day.The images are etched in my mind almost 40 years later.
http://virtualjerusalem.com/judaism.php?Itemid=11510
At Belzec, twelve SS men killed a million Jews.
For every million babies killed in America, there are two million parents, four million grandparents, several million close friends who knew, and encouraged.
Americans have killed 58 million of their babies.
Hitler’s camps were constructed outside Germany, hidden away. America’s killing locations are in shopping malls, listed in big, gaudy ads in the Yellow Pages.
So which population has been corrupted more by the crimes committed: the Germans? or the American?
Which population has more moral imbeciles, ready to approve more killing, of more kinds of people?
How many of Germany’s Catholics (laity, priests, bishops) were Nazis? How many American Catholics (laity, priests, bishops) (1972-2013) were/are Democrats?
http://virtualjerusalem.com/judaism.php?Itemid=11510
At Belzec, twelve SS men killed a million Jews.
For every million babies killed in America, there are two million parents, four million grandparents, several million close friends who knew, and encouraged.
Americans have killed 58 million of their babies.
Hitler’s camps were constructed outside Germany, hidden away. America’s killing locations are in shopping malls, listed in big, gaudy ads in the Yellow Pages.
So which population has been corrupted more by the crimes committed: the Germans? or the American?
Which population has more moral imbeciles, ready to approve more killing, of more kinds of people?
How many of Germany’s Catholics (laity, priests, bishops) were Nazis? How many American Catholics (laity, priests, bishops) (1972-2013) were/are Democrats?
“All seem to be related in some way.”
Heh, yeh, they ran the whole process and are what’s left.
Unterscharführer Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But it doesn’t go. Captain Wirth comes up. I can see he is afraid because I am present at a disaster. Yes, I see it all and I wait. My stopwatch showed it all, 50 minutes, 70 minutes, and the diesel did not start. The people wait inside the gas chambers. In vain. They can be heard weeping, “like in the synagogue,” says Professor Pfannenstiel, his eyes glued to a window in the wooden door. Furious, Captain Wirth lashes the Ukrainian assisting Hackenholt twelve, thirteen times, in the face. After 2 hours and 49 minutes—the stopwatch recorded it all—the diesel started. Up to that moment, the people shut up in those four crowded chambers were still alive, four times 750 persons in four times 45 cubic meters. Another 25 minutes elapsed. Many were already dead, that could be seen through the small window because an electric lamp inside lit up the chamber for a few moments. After 28 minutes, only a few were still alive. Finally, after 32 minutes, all were dead...Dentists hammered out gold teeth, bridges and crowns. In the midst of them stood Captain Wirth. He was in his element, and showing me a large can full of teeth, he said: “See for yourself the weight of that gold! It’s only from yesterday and the day before. You can’t imagine what we find every day—dollars, diamonds, gold. You’ll see for yourself! “[24][25]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belzec_extermination_camp
Thanks for passing this on as I had never heard of Belzec before!
I’ve been to Mathuosen in Austria and it didn’t hit me until we walked through the small showers and I wondered why there were seals on the shower’s doors. Duh! My wife got the heebie jeebies and we got out of there fast.
Supposedly all the death camps were outside Germany but Mathausen was a death/work camp in Austria. To kill British prisoners of war, they made them walk up over a hundred stones of granite to the top of the quarry where the camp was. If they couldn’t go on, they were just pushed over the edge to fall to their death, if they made it to the top, their load was increased until they to succumbed. Tragic, evil, sadism all in one place and this was a small camp unlike the enormous Auschwitz.
I was nauseous just thinking about it and less than 100 miles away, beautiful Vienna. They had to know. They didn’t kill millions of Jews with just Hitler, Himmler and Goering. They used lots of college educated men to do the dirty work. Someone from Thysen sent an engineer or a few to increase the efficiency of the crematorium. It’s simply amazing how this machine of people, equipment and death operated and we’re supposed to believe it was only a small number of people who knew what was going on.
There were even people saying, “If only the Fuhrer knew, he would stop it.” Hell, it was his idea, just read Mein Kampf. If more people had read it, maybe things would have turned out differently, but then again, probably not.
I’ve certainly heard of it.
After World War 2, my father and my mother’s surviving cousins were neighbors and friends, having resettled in Stettin from Drohobycz (Galicia near Lvov) and Lublin. But for some initiative and a lot of luck, they would have been buried near each other in Belzec.
I’ve certainly heard of it.
After World War 2, my father and my mother’s surviving cousins were neighbors and friends, having resettled in Stettin from Drohobycz (Galicia near Lvov) and Lublin. But for some initiative and a lot of luck, they would have been buried near each other in Belzec.
“All seem to be related in some way.”
“There is a small, dilapidated memorial containing some bones and ashes (which is regularly vandalised by Poles searching for “Jewish gold”). It is overgrown and unkempt.”
LOL !!!1 What a Holocaust story would be without usual dose of racism and Polonophobia ?
Thanks for posting this. The only issue I have with the focus on Nazi’s is that the communists did the same, on a grander scale and with greater ruthlessness. Fewer people know that than know about Belzec.