Posted on 03/16/2008 10:37:34 AM PDT by Alouette
It is one of the enduring mysteries of the second world war. More than 800 Jews based in this hospital in the middle of Nazi Berlin survived the war, seemingly and bizarrely protected by Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. So who were they and why were they saved?
Russian soldiers fighting their way through the rubble of Berlin in the last days of the war turned the corner of Iranische Strasse, in the district of Wedding, and came across an elegant building almost intact. Fanning out to search the structure, the Russians ransacked the place, room by room. Medical equipment and rows of beds showed that it had once been a hospital. Searching deep into the bowels of the building, the Russian liberators burst open cellar doors, and in the darkness made out hundreds of cowering figures more than 800 people in all.
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I see your 20 million and raise you 80 million.
http://www.lietuvos.net/istorija/communism/
Kronos,
What part of “The Russians killed 100 million in the last century.” do you not understand?
“Nonsense, the U235 core and the Plutonium core weighed less than 5 pounds each.”
Try again - the Hiroshima bomb was a uranium gun bomb that was very light and could have been transported easily by a number bombers from Berlin to Moscow and back.
Now THERE was a general!
Yeah, I know that about Spanalot.
But concidering possible confrontation USA-USSR I dont believe that it was possible. Well, US could nuke Moscow but than again, Russians lost 20,000,000 people allready and I dont thinkg they would surrender like Japanese did.
We know what you are.
“Russians lost 20,000,000 people allready “
BS - your Great Patriotic War used Ukrainians and Poles as cannon fodder - Far more Ukrainians and Poles died than russians.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-29.html
Are you an idiot, or do you merely sound like one?
Your understanding of history is bizarre....and there was just one more atomic bomb remaining on August 10, 1945. It was in pieces spread far and wide geographically.
LOL
Details please.
And where you are, Comrade BroJoe. We know all you do and say.
Your attitude has been noticed, Comrade BroJoe. Oh yes, it’s been noticed.
Ike was absolutely correct to let the commie hordes take Berlin. Why needlessly waste American lives to take an area that was already decided to be in Russian occupied zone? Besides, we still had the Japanese to worry about.
I agree with Ike’s decision not to take Berlin, but he was not ordered by Roosevelt to let the Russians take it. Ike had total authority and could have taken Berlin if he had decided to do so.
You are totally out to lunch, you don't know anything.
That so called ‘simple’ gun bomb that could have been ‘transported easily by a number (of) bombers’ was actually over ten feet long and weighed almost 4.5 tons. The Enola Gay had to be retrofitted in order to carry the weight and configuration of Little Boy. Little Boy alone was just about half the full carry weight of the Enola Gay- the WWII era B29 could carry a maximum of 20k lbs. Production models were not capable of carrying a single 4.5 ton bomb until around post war Korea when the fleet was upgraded to carry the T-14s. The Enola Gay was something special. This wasn’t just something any plane could have done at a moment’s notice.
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