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In 1941, a German Wehrmacht Sergeant Named Heinz Joest Spent His Birthday Illegally [tr]
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Posted on 08/13/2017 4:14:24 PM PDT by beaversmom

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In 1941, a German Wehrmacht Sergeant Named Heinz Joest Spent His Birthday Illegally Taking Pictures Inside the Warsaw Ghetto. Most of These Are Those Pictures Which He Smuggled Out.


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1 posted on 08/13/2017 4:14:24 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Horrible. Lest we forget. Amazing there were any people left to gas.


2 posted on 08/13/2017 4:19:31 PM PDT by madison10
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Article from the NY Times from 1990 about the pictures:

Review/Photography; Warsaw Ghetto in a German Soldier's Lens

Excerpt:

Forty-nine years ago, a German soldier stationed in Poland decided to spend his birthday taking pictures in Warsaw. The soldier, Heinz Jost, who had been a small-town innkeeper, had seen bodies piled alongside the wall that enclosed the city's ghetto, the now-infamous 2.4-square-mile area in which the Nazi occupation forces had confined 500,000 Polish Jews.

Jost's motivation may have been simple curiosity, but his photographs, which are being seen for the first time in the United States in an exhibition opening today at the Jewish Museum, are remarkable historical documents. They record in heart-rending and sometimes stomach-wrenching detail the tragic suffering of those living in the ghetto without adequate housing, food or sanitation. They also foreshadow the even more gruesome fate that awaited the ghetto's victims.

3 posted on 08/13/2017 4:20:06 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Amazing shots, just heart-breaking, thank you.

You would think every Jew world-wide would be in the very first rung of the pro-gun owership issue, in view of all that.

Yet they’re not.

I will never be able to square that circle.


4 posted on 08/13/2017 4:20:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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From the NY Times article of 1990:

In all, Jost took 129 photographs in his day in the ghetto, of which 85 are included in the show. The experience did not leave him unfazed, however. At a birthday dinner that night he was unable to eat, according to his recollections, which appeared in the German news magazine Der Stern several years ago.

5 posted on 08/13/2017 4:26:20 PM PDT by beaversmom
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Sad beyond description.


6 posted on 08/13/2017 4:26:27 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: beaversmom

Yet the progressives embrace fascism.


7 posted on 08/13/2017 4:48:39 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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Incredible example of man's inhumanity to his fellow man.

It's hard to imagine this much cruelty.

8 posted on 08/13/2017 4:49:01 PM PDT by PROCON (President Reagan, your worthy successor has arrived to save our beloved America)
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To: 353FMG

What is really sad is the continued love of big socialist government by Jews.


9 posted on 08/13/2017 4:51:25 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: beaversmom

Nazis and Muslims, united in doing satan’s work.....killing Jews.

It’s not a coincidence they are both gathering steam in Germany today (actually,both sides will, between them, control Europe).


10 posted on 08/13/2017 5:05:41 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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To: beaversmom

And Germans wonder why Dresden happened.


11 posted on 08/13/2017 5:08:12 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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Nobody really wonders *why* it happened (war-related industry in a heavily populated area, some people do or did wonder if it *should* have happened), but I feel like it should be pointed out that Dresden wasn’t firebombed because of the holocaust.


12 posted on 08/13/2017 5:11:22 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: beaversmom

Sad beyond words……..


13 posted on 08/13/2017 5:12:15 PM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

What I mean is the entirety of what the German people did is the reason their cities were bombed into dust and ashes. Todays generation of Germans still think Dresden was a ‘’war crime’’ and yet don’t want to look at what the Luftwaffe did to cities like Warsaw, Rotterdamn, London and Coventry.


14 posted on 08/13/2017 5:23:57 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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I’m changing my opinion very slowly. But now I’m beginning to think that these pictures and the holocaust and the memory of the shoah were slowly but now quickly destroying Europe. Not just one country Germany. But all of Western Europe.

More importantly, the destruction of Europe—that is, the Islamization of Europe—is not a good thing for either Israel or America.

Even more importantly, I wonder if the anti white hysteria on US college campuses today is not a harbinger of what to come here in America. I am reading more Jews talk about the anti white hysteria on US college campuses reminding them of what happened in Europe during the 1930’s.

I understand passions run deep on this stuff. But I’ve learned from hard experience that sometimes your own passions can work against you and everything you hold dear.


15 posted on 08/13/2017 5:38:56 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: beaversmom

Never, ever, forget! Keep your guns clean, your powder dry, and you faith and intention true.


16 posted on 08/13/2017 6:39:23 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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I was a child in England during WW2. I saw the films of the concentration camps. These were shown at the time during the intermission at the local cinema. Other graphic pictures were published in the UK Sunday newspapers.

These are the most graphic and chilling pictures I have ever seen of this war. Incredibly clear and placed with many different situations. To be mentioned is the uprising of those same beleaguered Jewish people. This took place after the D Day landings. 13,000 occupants of the Ghetto died. They were to be transported to Treblinka concentration camp.

Somehow any sympathy I ever had for the Germans executed for war crimes evaporated. Always felt that following orders, maybe was a fact to be reckoned with. Still very hard to rationalize the actions of those in that war. I include the Allies to some extent.

17 posted on 08/13/2017 7:28:53 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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Somehow any sympathy I ever had for the Germans executed for war crimes evaporated.

It's why I shed no tears for what happened to Dresden.

As far as I'm concerned, the Germans got off easy.

18 posted on 08/13/2017 7:30:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: jmacusa
Warsaw 1945
19 posted on 08/13/2017 7:31:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: madison10

I seen ‘em. I’m angry. Change “Jew” to “conservative” or “Trump supporter” and the left would be salivating at these pics.


20 posted on 08/13/2017 7:39:31 PM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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