Posted on 03/03/2009 6:56:01 AM PST by BGHater
Not much of a war machine if they could not produce enough wool to make army blankets. And is there something special about socks for U-Boats crews?
Incredible.
“filthy bosch” has a whole new meaning, no?
Submarines get mighty cold in the North Atlantic. Anything that provides insulation is a benefit.
Let’s not ask where fetal stem cells come from or how industry will get enough for commerical use if scientific tests prove “successful”.
“Submarines get mighty cold in the North Atlantic. Anything that provides insulation is a benefit.”
Your response, while technically true, seems a bit nonchalant and insensitive, considering that the German sailors were using socks made from the hair shorn of the soon-to-be exterminated. I doubt that the sailors knew this, I think they would have been shocked to know this.
The article isn’t specific, but how did the Zyklon B get into or on the hair? If heads were shorn upon arrival, wouldn’t the collected hair be somewhere else when the prisoners were gassed? I’m guessing the trace amounts are surface traces, as opposed to within the hair itself.
The Germans weren’t as ignorant about what was going on as you may think. The German Army certainly wasn’t.
I just finished Saul Friedlander’s second volume of his amazing (and amazingly sad) Nazi Germany and the Jews books, entitled The Years of Extermination. Highly recommended. I thought I basically knew everything there was to know about the Holocaust but the more I read the more horrors there are to uncover. It’s funny what sticks in your head. I didn’t know that German Jews were forbidden to own pets under a law promulgated in (I think) 1942. This means they had to get rid of the pets they already owned. But, since the law also forbade them to give their pets to others they were forced to have them killed. A small thing perhaps in the grand scheme of things but another piece of evidence that the Germans didn’t merely want to kill Jews, they also wanted to maximize their suffering.
See my post number 11. Friedlander amply documents that knowledge of the fate of Europe's Jews was well known throughout Europe by, at the latest, 1942. They all knew what was happening.
How about not bailing out any failing companies, no matter what their management might have done in the 1940s?
Let’s say the horrific charge is true. Unless some of the same people are still working for the company, I fail to see how this is relevant to the company’s current travails.
My guess is that if they went to submariners it was because there would never be any evidence if they lost an engagement with the Allies. Socks of this nature would have been much more obvious had they been worn by the Army—who were being captured by the tens of thousands.
Just a thought.
Allegations - nothing more.
*yawn*
BTW, those lampshades didn’t exist either.
Hair grows back and can be shorn again.
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Ummm, let me see now, why are the decisions and actions from nearly 70 years ago—as dreadful as the were—of men who are now long dead, of any relevance at all to the current day company?
Sounds like a way for a Polish company to stick it to a German competitor.
It’s like a Maine based company “revealing” that an Atlanta based company—or its ancestor firm—used slave labor 150 years ago. Horrors!
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