Posted on 10/08/2023 2:10:29 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1946, eleven men convicted by a British war crimes court of war crimes at the Neuengamme concentration camp hanged at Hamelin prison.
Neuengamme held about 106,000 prisoners from 1938 until the British overran it on May 3, 1945. (In a tragic coda, many of the last prisoners died when the ships to which they had been transferred were mistakenly strafed by the Royal Air Force that same day.)
Though its primary purpose was slave labor — Neuengamme inmates cranked out bricks and armaments — rather than extermination, close on half of its residents died of the maltreatment. Anne Frank’s elderly roommate-in-hiding “Albert Dussel” (his real name was Fritz Pfeffer) died there of enterocolitis in 1944; Suriname national hero Anton de Kom succumbed to tuberculosis at Neuengamme days before it was liberated.
Nor was Neuengamme above more direct methods — of course it wasn’t. As the Third Reich collapsed, Neuengamme was used to dispose of 71 leftists for no better reason than the Nazis begrudged their potential postwar life; meanwhile, Jewish children who had been subjected to medical experiments were hanged by their stonehearted SS doctor.....
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Never Forget!
It does not bother me that these criminals were hanged. It does bother me that so many Nazis were sentenced to long prison terms, then released after a few years for “poor health”.
Then these criminals went on living in comfortable homes for many more years. That is an insult to all their victims.
Same thing happened at Chancellersville. Good thing there were no war crimes tribunals then. Enemies were imprisoned, and they died of disease and mis or maltreatment. In the case o medical experiments, it should be against the law. It must be punished. Even up to 2023 like with AZT, Remdesivir and forced injections. What kind of war tribunal did we hold for the Japanese medical staff?
Hatred of the Hun is as endemic as hatred of the Jew, or hatred of the Russians.
I think the use by date of the Jewish holocaust is well past. I dindunuffin, and nobody alive did either.
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