I Was At Berger-Belsen This Week

Vanity | 10/30/2010 | RB

[Free America52]

I was in Hamburg Germany this week for business, and had the fortune (?) of visiting the memorial at Berger-Belsen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. By the time the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, there were 12,000-13,000 Jews dying every day from starvation and disease.

It is one of the most notorious of all Nazi concentration camps for several reasons:

1) Anne Frank and her sister Margot died in this camp.

2) As the allied forces pushed their way into Germany, Hitler had prisoners from camps in the encroachment areas moved to other prisons. Berger-Belsen received many of these prisoners and severely overloaded an already overloaded camp. Deaths became staggerlingly high.

Here are two historical clips that will make your hair stand up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdtPcNwRtM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxSxQlwR6s&feature=related

Several things really stuck out to me:

1) In a very eerie way, the Berger-Belsen grounds were very quiet. There were no birds, no animals, no insects or any sort of non-plant life although the prison was surrounded by thousands of acres of forest. According to local lore, no living thing exists.

2) This was not a re-enactment with buildings, etc., this was just a solemn walk through a beautiful place where some very horrible things happened. The area is simply breathtakingly beautiful.

3) They have a fabulous museum on site that tells the whole story. I could spend 1-2 days just in the museum.

I am 54 years old, and this was the most emotional experience in my life (outside of life / death issues). I will forever be touched, and plan to make a German vacation visiting more of these camps.

It is impossible to describe ...

[Lumper20]

Yes, it is “Death Care” and we will be told who lives and who dies from approval/denial of care. The robbery of medicare alone for Obamacare is a crime as medicare was already underfunded and seriously in the red. It was reported in 2006 that social security and medicare would go broke by 2015 or so. Well, Obama,Pelosi, Reid, and pals have made sure it will be broke even faster.

I saw Dachau in 57-58 as a young boy. I will never forget those metal drawers in the brick walls. These metal drawers were like a morgue, except they held bodies to be gassed/cremated. I saw the gas chamber there,too. I was 11 or so.My father was in Nurnburg again, and; he had been at this camp with the 42nd Infantry in April 45. This was the one place where US officers lined up the SS guards and SS commanders.They were executed. That never bothered my late father. I have never forgotten that place.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006164