Posted on 05/15/2006 8:02:45 AM PDT by SJackson
The death books seem utterly ordinary, their covers inscribed with neither swastikas nor other frightening Nazi symbols. They are just the black-and-white, cardboard-covered composition books that generations of schoolchildren have used for handwriting practice. And, indeed, every entry is in neat cursive.
On April 20, 1942, the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria approved the special killing of 300 prisoners to mark the Fuehrer's birthday. The execution list runs for pages, each individual receiving a single line -- name, date of birth, place of birth, inmate number, and an epitaph, "By order of R.S.H.A. shot," the acronym for the Central Office for Security of the Reich.
The cause of death for each was a single bullet to the base of the skull: Genickschuss -- neck shot. The executions on that spring day occurred at two-minute intervals. Every snap of the firing pin was duly noted in fussy script in the Totenbuch, or death book, for 1942-43. The birthday celebration murders started at 11:20 a.m.
11:22. Neck shot.
11:24. Neck shot.
11:26. Neck shot.
Later this month, after years of pressure from Holocaust scholars, Jewish groups, and the U.S. government, the immense terror trove at the Red Cross' International Tracing Service are expected to be opened to historians and other researchers for the first time.
"There is extraordinary material in Bad Arolsen on the functioning and structure of the camps and slave labor systems," said Johannes Houwink ten Cate, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "It's one of the largest collections of historical documents from World War II, enough to keep scholars busy for generations."
Perhaps most shocking about the Bad Arolsen files is the way the most horrific atrocities are detailed in ho-hum bureaucratic language.
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National Socialism is like all socialism. It is a dehumanizing force that worships death and hates God and Life.
She was issued a patch of a yellow triangle superimposed on dark triangle, making a Star of David, to show she was a Jewish "race defiler." She was sent to Ravensbrueck concentration camp, disappearing into the maw of the Holocaust.
The whole article gives me chills. It is also the exact way the mulsims will rule if they ever take power in the west...
At two minutes between each murder, for 300 murders, that's 10 hours of non-stop killing.
of course this has to come to light. unfortunately, it will become some future dictator's script.
For the Nazis, that was a slow day.
I'm speechelss . . .
speechelss = speechless
sorry
Only fools keep records of war crimes.
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Or those who, being members of the master race, could not conceive of the possibility that they might lose the war and be held accountable for their actions.
Wait till the records hit the internet.
In their minds, what crime? Besides, they were there for a thousand years.
Bear in mind, that the notion of War Crimes almost didn't exist in 1945. The actions took place within Germany, or land controlled by the German government. The actions violated English law, Russian law, American law -- but were not within the jurisdiction of those legal systems.
The Nazis were very careful to amend their laws so that barbaric acts were "legal". They controlled the government, they controlled the laws. Under German law, every horrifying thing that you read about was legal.
After the War, prosecution became difficult, since "no laws were broken". Well, no sane person could really come to THAT conclusion, but what could the Allies do? Well, they used the term Crimes Against Humanity, and the Nuremburg Trials were held on that basis, and the guilty were punished.
But at the time the Nazis were keeping such careful records, the had no reason to think they would get in trouble -- even if they lost the war.
No comment from Mahmoud Ahmaniac in Tehran, who maintains the holocaust never happened.
I suppose some abortion mills do the same thing.
Efficient murders.
I can imagine them doing some extra abortions to celebrate the anniversary of Roe v Wade.
I'll be very interested to see the new research that comes out of this. Might be some very interesting books coming out in the next few years on the subject.
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