Auschwitz architectural plans uncovered

Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/9/2008 | Staff

[mojito]

The German newspaper Bild published never-before-seen architectural plans of the Auschwitz extermination camp on Saturday that reveal, in their unequivocally marked sections, that everyone involved in the operation of Auschwitz knew full well that it was intended for the systematic extermination of human beings, the paper said.

The floor plans, cross-sections and maps on yellowing paper, mostly on a scale of 1:100, were reportedly found during the evacuation of an abandoned Berlin apartment. They were drawn up between 1941 and 1943.

The 28 documents include detailed blueprints of prisoner barracks, gas chambers marked clearly Gaskammer (Gas chamber) in a Gothic-inspired font and a cross-section of the gate into which the rails of trains entered carrying Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled persons and other people the National Socialists sent to die.

One of the maps carries the handwritten signature of Gestapo commander Heinrich Himmler.

The plans were not construction plans but were drawn after Auschwitz-Birkenau was built (on the foundations of an old military base from the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

On January 20, 1942, Nazi officials met in the resort of Wannsee east of Berlin where they devised the Final Solution, and this has traditionally been taken by historians as the beginning of the Nazis' extermination campaign.

One of the drawings, predating the Wannsee Conference by eight months, sheds new light on the chronology of the German genocide machine.

Dr. Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, chief director of the Bundesarchivs, the federal archives in Berlin, said the find was of "extraordinary importance."

"The plans are authentic certificates of a systematically planned genocide of European Jews," Bild quoted Kreikamp as saying.

As the plans show a "Laundry and shower room" leading into a "Dressing room" and then to the "Gas chamber," there could be no doubt of the purpose of the large room marked Gaskammer.

The documents rebut the last of those who would deny the Holocaust, Bild said in its report.

[Calpernia]

>>>BFL = Bump For Later.

>>>By the way, in one of life’s little bits of synchronicity, I found out that BfL also stood for an organization in NAZI Germany known as “Bund fur Leibeszucht”,

Why LucyT! What have you been up to in your spare time! Better yet, don’t tell me. This is still a family forum!

[justiceseeker93]

The bottom line is that the classes of victims were treated quite differently, and the Jews suffered by far the most of any of these groups, particularly in terms of lack of food rations - leading to mass starvation and lethal disease - and severity of physical beatings. Thus there was a much higher death rate among Jewish prisoners in Nazi camps than among other prisoners.

The first group sent to camps were the political dissidents. The first camp was Dachau in Germany, well before the onset of WWII. The most deaths occurred in camps in Nazi occupied Poland, and of those, Auschwitz accounted for by far the most - about 1,500,000.

[Calpernia]

>>>The bottom line is...<<<

Your post differed from my post 77 how?

[AnalogReigns]

On January 20, 1942, Nazi officials met in the resort of Wannsee east of Berlin where they devised the Final Solution, and this has traditionally been taken by historians as the beginning of the Nazis' extermination campaign.

It began LONG before 1942, in the early '30s, with the systematic extermination of the insane (including many thousands of post-tramatic-stress-syndrome WWI veterans...), the retarded, the terminally ill, and of course in abortion of "undesireables"...

This is why people like myself and many fellow FReepers find the far left pro-death regime coming into power so frightening.

[Calpernia]

>>>It began LONG before 1942, in the early ‘30s...

Bump.

Along with the confiscation of businesses and wealth of some prominent Jews.

But, ironically having Jews in ownership positions was convenient for hiding business assets. One way of accomplishing that was purchasing Jewish identities from wealthy, accomplished Jews that were eliminated early on by the Reich.

Back in the 30s. Many of those identities were also sold to spies and strategically placed globally too.

http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/bibliographies/trade-with-third-reich.html
Trade With the Third Reich

[LucyT]

Okay, I won’t tell you.

(Nudist? Who knew!)

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

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[FrogBurger]

I didn’t accuse anyone. I simply said that they might be forged. I am at a loss to see where I implied that, if this was the case, the culprit had to be Jewish.

I thought I wrote clearly. Now I see why lawyers prefer to add disclaimers everywhere.