Archive sheds light on Nazi death camps

[FVZA_Colonel]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061223/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_pyramid_of_persecution



Archive sheds light on Nazi death camps
By ARTHUR MAX

BAD AROLSEN, Germany - Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps. It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a pyramid of ghettos, Gestapo prisons, slave labor camps and, ultimately, extermination factories.

Holocaust historians are only now piecing together the scattered research in many languages to understand the vast scope of the camps, prisons and punishment centers that scarred German-ruled Europe, like a pox on the landscape stretching from Greece to Norway and eastward into Russia.

Collecting and analyzing fragmented reports, researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum say they have pinpointed some 20,000 places of detention and persecution — three times more than they estimated just six years ago.

And soon they will know much more.

[seriousstan]

1. And yet some still question.( I also have at least 1 thing to admire the Jehovah's Witnesses's for)

Sachsenburg was an abandoned four-story textile mill, renovated in May 1933 to serve as a "protective custody" facility for dissidents such as Jehovah's Witnesses, outlawed in 1935 because they were among the most obstinate opponents of the Nazi regime, refusing to sing the anthem, give the Hitler salute, respond to the military draft or vote in elections.

[Contrite]

2. Political prisoners first

The earliest prisoners were communists, Social Democrats, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political opponents, as well as homosexuals and common criminals. The Final Solution, which ultimately would claim 6 million Jewish lives, had not yet begun.

[Ayesha]

3. Also PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

The methods used at the death camps were developed through testing them on physically and mentally disabled people. We were considered "useless eaters" by Hitler and exterminated long before he got around to the Jews. This fact is rarely taught in schools...even today, our oppression is hidden away.

[JNelson6563]

7. They are that way in every country

taking no part in the worldly stuff, anxiously awaiting the "new system". (Although the WT Inc. did file a brief on Jimmy Swaggart's behalf back in the day when sales tax on religious swag was being argued) If you've turned them away at your door they've probably already scoped out your stuff for their use once you (and all other scum that make up the worldly people-aka non-JW) are obliterated by their loving god.


Julie

[Cleita]

4. And how fabulous that we are doing the same here with

our so-called illegal immigrant workers. Read this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2960254

[noel adamson]

5. Here is a chronology of the holocaust and a comparison of...

... the enabling act with the "patriot" act;

http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/chronology.html">Holocaust Chronology

http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm">Patriot Act and the Enabling Act

This administration is right out of the same corporate mold even including many of the same families most notably the Bush family. ">Here is a copy of vesting order 248 which ordered the confiscation of Union Banking from Prescott Bush and his Nazi Party member partners almost a year after Pearl Harbor (the notation in color and the picture of Ford receiving a medal from the Nazis in 1938 are added by me). Henry Ford was amongst the first to support Hitler starting in the early 1920s. Ford's intense antisemitism and methodical development of assembly line production methods certainly had a lot to do with the Holocaust and I hope the new documentation sheds more light on that. http://www.jrbooksonline.com/Intl_Jew_full_version/ijtoc_.htm">Here is a copy of Ford's antisemitic pamphlet which went out with every new Ford automobile and http://www.stockmaven.com/HistoricalMediaReports.htm">here is a page with an index leading to newspaper articles documenting Ford's earliest involvement with Hitler and his band of Nazis.. I think the Nazis would continued crying in their beer about losing WW1 and never left the beer halls if not for Ford.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Hitler reportedly flew into a rage when he learned about the ubiquitous

eugenics laws in the U.S., compelling state-sponsored sterilization of the "unfit". He was outraged that "they're doing a better job than we are!" In other words, this country was the prototype which Hitler copied and developed, so to speak.

[UpInArms]

6. more from your link:

Files on the two camps seen by AP reveal an utter contempt by the SS not only for inmates but for civilian authority, at a time when Nazi rule had not yet taken full control of all institutions of power.

In Lichtenburg — a drafty, disused Renaissance castle — an officer reported to his commander that the "sharp cutback of bread and rations is having a negative effect" on the prisoners, who were looking "sleepy and tired" and increasingly ill, he reported. No response was found in the file of correspondence.

Among Sachsenburg's conduct reports was evidence of the commandant's blatant snub of a court in Dresden, which had asked for the "urgent release" of an inmate to appear as a witness in a trial. The commandant wrote back with a flat refusal.

Sachsenburg authorities issued periodic behavior reports, but often they were just a sentence or two. "G. is a worthless subject and an irresponsible person. He would not be harmed by undergoing a really long upbringing in the camp. He is an example of the need for such camps," said one typical report.