Thanks WWII_Historian.
Posted on 10/23/2017 6:29:45 AM PDT by WWII_Historian
On October 23, 1943, the next train with the Jews – about 1,700 people -- arrived at the death camp (Konzentrationslager) Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Unlike all other trains arriving at Auschwitz, it was a real passenger train, not a cattle train. Also, none of their arriving Jews wore the yellow Star of David on their clothes.
Arriving Jews were greeted warmly by the “representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Third Reich” Franz Hössler, who announced that this is their last stop before crossing the border with Switzerland, from where they would travel to different countries of South America. Just a few formalities remain -- disinfection, shower, and then -- long-awaited freedom. Few people guessed that they were in southern Poland, not in southern Germany, and that Hössler was actually an SS First Lieutenant (SS-Obersturmführer).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
To wit: what good is a handgun against an army?
Plenty.
Interesting related info: https://www.snopes.com/franceska-mann/
This is a great story.
I am amazed that I have not read it before.
It deserves to be widely distributed.
Wow!
That’s amazing courage!
Think of all the men we’ve seen walk and kneel, in line in front of their executioners.
Good role model for future victims of Harvey, Bill, etc.
good read ping
What a sick, fiendish, twisted, evil disgusting thing NAZIsm and Hitler and these NAZI pigs were. If anyone is burning in hell, they are.
Sad but great story.
Of what possible relevance is this phony citizen today (Oct 23, 2017)?
I missed CBS' explanation.
Right next to them in the pit of hellfire are the commie bastards 1000 miles to the east who did deeds that were just as evil as what the Nazis had done.
And a little further to the east in the oldest civilization on the planet, even worse atrocities were perpetuated by Mao and his red bastard minions.
Because of political correctness, the evils of the USSR and Communist China continue to be routinely ignored.
Indeed.
Snopes? Really?
Unsubscribe please thanks.
Yup. The 20th Century indeed was an outstanding example of exceptional savagery and brutality.
Great courage in the middle of ghastly savagery.
Think of all the men we’ve seen walk and kneel, in line in front of their executioners.
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On occasion one may read of 4 or 5 people, face down and ALL with a single gunshot to the back of the head by one gun(ner).
While I realize one never knows what they will do when the $hiite hits the fan but the only way I am in that line is ONLY if I am #1.
Otherwise, someone is going to have to explain the footprint on my back or why I was hit in the back of the head first.
When that hijacked flight went down over PA after the passengers ‘rushed the guards’ you can bet your bippy I would have been in that rush if not leading it.
I still have the ‘instinct’ (be it good or bad) to head towards the gunfire or explosion or fire.
Nor would I ‘dig my own grave’ if there was only me and 4 or 5 others ‘guarding’ me...
Wholeheartedly agree. Ironically, from a practical standpoint, had the Nazis not been utterly crazed sick bastards, and not spent such resources on the Holocaust (besides the camps, there was the transport, and the mobile “rat patrol” style kill squads that operated in the occupied territory in the east, plus the abilities and industry of the victims), they’d have had a better shot at winning the war. That was a very great sacrifice that the Holocaust victims (including survivors) made that saved lives of allied servicepeople, and helped defeat the dirty Nazi ********ers.
A Grand Rapids-area clothing store manager was a survivor, used to give an annual talk about his Holocaust experience. Upon arrival at the death camp, he was pretty young, and when the SS guards were herding arrivals into two lines, he was left with his mother and sister(s?). As they slowly moved across the compound, a different SS guard thought he looked old enough to work, and pulled him away from his mother and sister(s) and put him in the line with the men and older boys.
The first line was fed directly to the gas chambers. That was on day one. I remember a few more of his experiences, but that one makes me pretty sick, and I don’t want to recount what else he said.
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Not a new "story", the incident was included in reports entered into evidence at Nuremberg. There may be some fluff around it, probably the pleasant description of the train. Possibly the woman's identity. Though other versions indicate many of the prisoners were American citizens. Commendant Hoss arrived on the scene with help and the women were machine gunned. I don't recall the incident in his autobiography. Which is an interesting read, though there are various translations, and extraneous content may be added to some.
Brief Encounter With a Hero, Name Unknown,Jacqueline Osherow
It could have been a matter of modesty
It could have been the gold sewn in your dress
You might even have feared for your chastity
Maybe it was simple recklessness
Perhaps you couldn’t part with that one dress
Once rumpled by a skillful, knowing bow
Or were wearing it to hide a gaping abscess
Or were pregnant and ashamed to let it sow
Maybe you’d seen a Western dubbed in Polish
Or Yiddish or Czech or whatever it was you spoke
And remembered some hokey John Wayne floursih
That downed four outlaws in a single stroke
Maybe you were an unexceptional girl
Who’d gone crazy on the claustrophobic ride
Maybe you’d had had a lovers’ quarrel
And, for day, been contemplating suicide
You could have been a fighter in the woods
And drilled this tactic over and over and over
Who knows? Perhaps you thought you’d beat the odds
Maybe it wasn’t even the right maneuver
My father-in-law mentioned it in passing
When I asked how well he’d known hi SS boss
(His job in Birkenau had been delousing;
They also used Zyklon B for lice)
And he named on Schillinger, SS
And told how he watched Schillinger die
When a new woman, ordered to undress
(You were going to the gas chamber, apparently)
Instead grabbed hold of Schillinger’s own gun
and killed three other guards along with him
Such things, says my father-in-law, were common
(Needless to say, in seconds you had joined them)
It could have been a matter of modesty
It could have been the gold sewn in your dress
You might even have feared for your chastity
Maybe it was simple recklessness
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