My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews

Haaretz ^ | July 5, 2017

[dfwgator]

Further proof that in fact, in many cases the Austrians were even more cruel than the Germans towards the Jews. After all, Hitler was one of them.

[Mr. K]

PIAPS = Pig In A Pants-Suit (for those not around here when Bill was inserting cigars into interns in the oval office)

[Sans-Culotte]

Bump for later.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Through a combination of sinful weakness, fear, and base reward, people can be led to do some pretty atrocious things. The weakness is internal, the fear and base reward external. Only God sees how these combinations occur, or understands the full plan in which they are either permitted or prevented.

[ronniesgal]

she kinda looks like Rose Kennedy.

[texteacher]

“Europeans are sick. Our ancestors came here for a reason.”

Sadly, I believe the disease did not stay in Europe. I firmly believe vile things are occurring in our country by so called elites. Read “Franklin The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska” by John De Camp. The crimes took place in the 1980 and ‘90’s and were covered up for national security reasons.

[IncPen]

Ping

[Huntress]

Bump for later

[Mercat]

I remember reading about a wealthy woman in New Orleans in the early 19th c. Same behavior with slaves.

[Gen.Blather]

“I cannot imagine discovering something so horrible in my family’s history.”

Two men are talking. One says, “I was trying to research my family history. I can’t find a single one of them.” The other man said, “Run for mayor as a Republican. The Democrats will trace them all the way to the Stone Age.”

[Darteaus94025]

They were killing the last witnesses to earlier atrocities.

[originalbuckeye]

bkmk

[Bookshelf]

“Margit held a large party in the town of Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border to fete her Nazi friends. She, the daughter and heiress of European baron and tycoon Heinrich Thyssen.”
The Theissen family continues to thrive. Its spawn have purchased landholdings from as far away as Arizona and Paraguay. In fact, the family never paid the price that was owed for its involvement in WWII.

[BobL]

“One of his ancestors was a psychopath. Not much he can do about that.”

Actually, it’s pretty awesome what he’s done. Sad that others would instead simply ‘forget’ about it.

[bdfromlv]

Read about Ilse Koch wife of the commandant of Buchenwald consentration camp, much more than lamp shades

[Vehmgericht]

Anti-German propaganda was an important part of the war effort. Many outrageous and untrue claims were made which should have been unnecessary. The Nazi had committed sufficient atrocities deserving condemnation. The false claims are actually counterproductive and damage the credibility of the people making them. It is similar to an American politician announcing that he had a relative that took part in the liberation of Auschwitz although Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets. An example of this is the contention that Isle Koch, the wife of the commandant of Buchenwald had a collection of lampshades made of human skin. Giles MacDonogh mentions these lamps on three occasions in his After the Reich.1 Koch may, in fact, have had such a collection. However, it should be pointed out that there is some question about this assertion. Koch was tried for war crimes and her sentence was reduced by General Clay. Clay stated There was absolutely no evidence in the trial transcript, other than she was a rather loathsome creature, that would support the death sentence. I suppose I received more abuse for that than for anything else I did in Germany. Some reporter had called her the "Bitch of Buchenwald", had written that she had lampshades made of human skin in her house. And that was introduced in court, where it was absolutely proven that the lamp shades were made out of goat skin. 2 Koch was tried again by a German count and this charge was again found groundless. In 2010 a writer in New York attempted to donate what he believed to be a lampshade made of human skin to both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. They “declined to take possession of the lampshade, saying that the concentration camp lampshades made of human skin were probably a ‘myth.’"3 Further testing revealed that the lampshade was found to be cow skin with 100% certainty. 4 1 Giles MacDonogh, After the Reich, pp. 85, 343, and 462. 2 “Ilse Koch,” Wikipedia, 5 October 2015. 3 Jon Kalish, “New Book Tells Grim Story Of ‘The Lampshade,’” NPR, December 28, 2010, http://www.npr.org/2010/12/28/132416206/New-Book-Tells-Story-Of-The-Lampshade 4 Teddy Winroth, “‪Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery‬,” YouTube, Aug 6, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNb1MZbqalk&feature=player_detailpage#t=2294.

[Vehmgericht]

I do not know if it is true or not. I have read so much that is not true and this has made me skeptical.

[Responsibility2nd]

Hmm.

I read just the wiki article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations

This story reminds me much of Pizza Gate. It could be true. But probably not.

[Leaning Right]

> This is one case where I wished the Russians would have captured her. <

I was thinking that same thing. After the war, the Russians delivered justice to those criminals. It was a rough justice, and in many cases a kangaroo-court justice, but it was justice.

[binreadin]

Look at what has happened in England—the scandal even involved a high-ranking BBC personality and a former PM.

Brings to mind Balzac's adage: “Behind every great fortune is a great crime,” or something very similar. The more we learn about life, the more it seems to be true.