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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Not sure what some of that means, but it is a HORRIFIC insult to my father and uncles, your kin and any others who fought in our wars!!
Is that a crime?? it should be.
Brother in law who died 3 years ago was in Vietnam. One year in hell he said. Medic for marines.
While visiting my parents years ago, I stayed up all night reading “One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, could not close it up. Read about half of Gulag but visit didn’t last long enough. I just bought it for about $1 on Amazon so I can finally finish it.
Speaking as someone who lost friends in 9/11, the woman who became a semi celebrity by lying didn’t do #### nor remind anyone of ####.
There were plenty from the holocaust and their families and 9/11 victim families to remind us.
This is ####ing disgusting on both o them.
I forgive them, but i see NO GOOD in it like you do
Sounds like people in my family, frauds.
I met an old woman one time when going from door to door as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
We were to ask people if they believed in God, in the Bible. The woman let me in, saying she did, but I believe she mostly let me in out of the hot sun, it was a very hot day in Phoenix, Az in the summer.
She gave me water and as I continued on regarding the Bible she told me politely she was Jewish. She seemed reticent to speak at all about religion, me thinking it was because she was Jewish and not wanting to become Christian.
I did not press her. We were taught to only speak with ones who were interested but I did ask her if she believed in God, did she think about God at all and after a few minutes she admitted to me she had been in Auschwitz. She added she did not want to speak further on it. She said this quietly and politely.
She looked away when saying it. When she said it she had lowered her voice. She seemed that just by saying the name she felt as if she were ‘there’ again.
I was so shocked by her obvious emotional response, I could tell it was not something she admitted often, in fact I had the idea it was rarely spoken.
I said I was so sorry. After a minute of thought I said, ‘did you pray?’ meaning when she was there. Not thinking she didn’t but trying to grasp that awful situation of hers.
She looked at me in a confiding way and said, “We prayed all the time. We were numb with fear”. Indicating her prayers were the only thing that made her feel some kind of solace, feeling terrible things were likely going to happen but it was the only way to get through that. Like a child terrified and staying close to their father.
The horror she still remembered was evident in that fleeting moment she and I looked into each others eyes. The conversation was only that. She spoke in her soft old womans voice, with the eyes staring at me briefly with the fear and the pain still in them. It was palpable.
I cannot imagine anyone ‘pretending’ that. I imagine she got free because the war ended. No heroics. No meeting famous people. ]
I’ll never forget that poor dear woman who offered me a glass of water and a minute out of the heat with compassion for me only as another human being.
Tolstoy didn’t witness the Napoleonic wars...
Tolstoy died in 1910 so he would not have been old enough to remember or born at that time...
Since she did not expect to get out she prob saw this photo later.
Bet that surprised her!
I was just surprised to see a woman tattooed. That just didn’t happen in those days—unless one was a bar fly. And what struck me even stranger was the 7 had a slash in the middle of it. Had never seen anything like that. I think that’s one of the reasons I still remember it to this day.
It’s an old joke, Einstein. They used to tell it about Pat Buchanan.
I could see Bill Kristol saying that about Buchanon. I don’t think there’s a true conservative that Kristol hasn’t bashed and that includes Reagan.
The "assh*le" of the world?
Perhaps you mean Annus Mundi - the year of the world.
Regards,
His wife was Morgan Fairchild.
Like yours, she was my first thought, “The Woman Who Wasn’t There.” Sick people.
That is so true, and very sad for those people.
I too read that book many years ago. Never forgot it. Whenever I start to get cranky about something trivial like pizza not being delivered as hot as I’d like it ,I remember that book, and am content with my less than perfect pizza.
“Anus Mundi” (the “assh*le” of the world) was a name given to the KL by members of the SS.
little jeremiah had it right.
What Stalin?
Jewish bureaucrats made up 60% of Russian government, just prior to Stalin’s purge of millions. I read perhaps that is why the gulag horrors get small mention compared to the holocaust.
Count the high number of Hitler movies from Hollywood, but not a single Stalin movie even when 10 times were murdered. Victim classes are very PC.
Don't rely on that. I had a supervisor back in the day that had a number on his forearm. It was in the right place. He was old enough to have been in the camps if he was a child at the time.
I always figured he was a camp survivor. One day the curiosity got the better of me and I commented on the unusual tattoo. He told me he got it in the Navy when he was on shore leave in San Diego. Him and his buddies were drunk and wanted to get tattooed. He couldn't figure out what he wanted so he opted for his SSN. He never thought about what it would look like.
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