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To: a fool in paradise

Here’s something most people don’t know about Buchenwald:

After liberation, between 1945 and February 10, 1950, the camp was administered by the Soviet Union and served as Special Camp No. 2 of the NKVD.[37] It was part of a “special camps” network operating since 1945, formally integrated into the Gulag in 1948.[38][39] Another infamous “special camp” in Soviet occupied Germany was the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen (special camp No. 7).[40]

Between August 1945 and the dissolution on March 1, 1950, 28,455[41] prisoners, including 1,000 women, were held by the Soviet Union at Buchenwald. A total of 7,113 people died in Special Camp Number 2, according to the Soviet records.[41] They were buried in mass graves in the woods surrounding the camp. Their relatives did not receive any notification of their deaths. Prisoners comprised alleged opponents of Stalinism, and alleged members of the Nazi party or Nazi organization, others were imprisoned due to identity confusion and arbitrary arrests.[42][43] The NKVD would not allow any contact of prisoners with the outside world[44] and did not attempt to determine the guilt of any individual prisoner.[43]


100 posted on 10/18/2013 12:00:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

somehow things like that never make it to the history books


101 posted on 10/18/2013 12:01:14 PM PDT by GeronL
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Interesting dfwgator as I just began yesturday doing some investigation of Stalin and recall what you wrote being mentioned.

Just thus far it is remarkable the similarities in Obama’s agenda and how Stalin worked...as with Hitler's rise.... But then Tyrant's all have similarities. Obama wrote and published a book for children about himself just like Hitler did.


110 posted on 10/18/2013 12:16:00 PM PDT by caww
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Netflix has a 6-part series called, “Auschwitz:Inside the Nazi State” that I watched and thought provided excellent insight.


120 posted on 10/18/2013 1:05:21 PM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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