Posted on 06/24/2016 9:06:55 PM PDT by Trump20162020
A Pennsylvania man who claimed for years to have escaped from Auschwitz, met track and field star Jesse Owens and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, confessed on Friday that he had fabricated the entire story.
“I am writing today to apologize publicly for harm caused to anyone because of my inserting myself into the descriptions of life in Auschwitz,” Joseph Hirt, 86, wrote in a letter sent to his local paper, LNP, this week. “I was not a prisoner there. I did not intend to lessen or overshadow the events which truly happened there by falsely claiming to have been personally involved.”
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Some woman did this with the WTC!!!!!!
She was NEVER in it but was infamous for her resilience!!!
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!??
And do they know hillary and that newscaster?
Desperate to mean something to someone, not knowing how much they mean to their Creator?
We had a guy in Morgan Hill who was doing something similar with his WWII exploits — field promotion from seaman to Lt. Commander at 20 years old, multiple Navy Crosses and Silver Stars, 13 or 14 suicide missions with UDT. It was total BS.
Check the tattoo number, all “inmates” of the death camps were tattooed. I had an experience one day when a former survivor showed me his tattoo, a number on his arm. it was very humbling.
I forgive him. This is one of those rare instances where the intent justifies the means. My feeling is as long as he didn’t use this fake knowledge to send innocent men and women to jail via false accusation, it was worth it. I do not know if he merchandised his fiction in other ways.
He’s right, we need to constantly be reminded of just how low we can go as a species. Just living through the Obama Years has taught me how flexible the sense of reality is for not just a lot of people, but for most people.
Just sad
that could be.
I lied to girls in my 20s about job position, trying to be a bigshot. That was dumb. And deceptive, but not at this level!!!
Those of us that lost close ones on 9/11 or in the holocaust aren’t too thrilled. But i’m not angry either. Feel sorry for the person to be that lonely.
This really pisses me off. My Grandfather died at Auschwitz.
He got drunk one night and fell out of the machinegun tower.
Too soon?
OK I know, it’s in bad taste, but I use this joke everytime somebody I recently met tells a Jewish joke. It really messes with their heads and the NEVER tell me another Jewish joke afterwards.
I dont know much about war talk, but that sounds might exceessive for one guy.
My great uncle was in suicide squad in WWI. Dont know if that’s what they really called it. He fought behind enemy lines.
Said he was behind a tree and he was about to make a run for it and he saw the Lord tell him to stay where he was. Said he would have been killed if he had moved at that instant
Who knows what’s real and what’s your mind playing tricks in a war. Tough little guy though Gave the worst haircuts lol. We had to get them cause they were free.
This was exaggeration to the extreme. Over the years, he added a few Navy Crosses, a couple of Silver Stars, and about four more suicide missions.
He was part of an oral history project that enshrined his BS in the Library of Congress. Truly pathetic that his claims were never checked.
Anyone who had ever been in the military, any branch, would have questioned the E3 to O4 promotion of a 20-year-old. A temporary promotion to Ensign, unlikely but possible. To LCDR, no freakin’ way.
That joke flew right over my head like a Barn Owl after a field mouse.
Had he claimed instead that he was native American he could be in the Senate.
Maybe he met Obama’s uncle when his uncle liberated Auschwitz. Remember Oturdo bragging about that? Never mind that Odumbass is too stupid to realize the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. Or maybe his uncle was a Red.
In my 20s became interested in just what took place in those camps. After reading several autobiographies from survivors I had to stop. It became almost mind altering just reading about it.
Pure twisted evil doesn’t come close to describe what they suffered.
Uh, I’ll humor you and assume you’re being honest. Grandfather getting drunk and falling out of the tower means that he was a SS camp guard.
I did the same in my 30s. It changed me. I’ll see what titles I can remember - Anus Mundi, Babi Yar (not exactly camps), Dora and a couple more. I think the one about Sobibor maybe. This was a long time ago.
AFTER we got my fil a WW2 vet hat, I learned that he never was in WW2, he joined in 46 and spent about 1 yr in, including a month where he left the barracks because he didn’t get orders, and no one knew the wiser...but he likes to wear that hat like he was some big war hero..
I read quite a bit of “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn about the forced labor camps in the old Soviet Union. Like you, after a while, I had to just close the book and put it away for a couple of years. Informative, gripping but unrelentingly grim.
The same can be said of certain parts of War & Peace by Tolstoy. War & Peace has increased value as a record of history, one often observed from a point of detachment.
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