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To: PleaseNoMore
"I think it is a sad waste of life in both cases."

Please say that to someone who lost a loved one in the concentration camps.
145 posted on 08/25/2003 7:26:11 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: StolarStorm
My grandfather lost one of his "sickly" younger brothers in a concentration or "work" camp in 1938. He was deemed too feeble to work and shipped from Dachau to Linz where he was murdered. My grandfather was several years older than his brother and was ( more than ) fortunate to leave Munich Germany by train in 1933 very shortly after Hitler came into power and almost immediately before Dachau was opened. He emigrated to America some years later. To the best of my knowledge, my grandfather never was bitter, hurt deeply and grieved but not bitter, and forgave his brother's persecutors before he died in 1988. Of course I never had the opportunity to ask him but my family attests to this.
154 posted on 08/25/2003 8:14:38 AM PDT by PleaseNoMore
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