[Happy Rain]

The backyards of Birkenau, the extermination annex of Auschwitz where the crematoria were so overwhelmed by the mass influx of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews in the Summer of 1944 (the Hungarian Government, their armies decimated on the Eastern Front,no longer had the power to keep Eichmann's SS out) the Sondercommando had to toss victims, living and dead, into vast open pits of flame...

...the word had already come down from Himmler to not slow the pace of mass murder but to accelerate the pace of covering up the mass murders since they were losing the war at the time and knew war criminal nooses awaited them.

[miss marmelstein]

Ah, I remembered it pretty accurately. There was a time when I thought that this could never happen in the USA - and maybe it can’t - but I’m not so sure now...

Another thing I remember about “Night” was that a madman showed up in Wiesel’s village several years prior to the Holocaust exclaiming that a fire would consume them all. No one, of course, listened to him.

Thanks for the info.