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Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by Chef des Todes, Aug 17, 2010.

  1. brndirt1

    brndirt1 Saddle Tramp

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    This too is not for the "faint at heart", nor the very young. Use it with discresion. That said, here a link to the film footage of Nazi KZs as the allies took them over. Remember, nudity isn't the obscenity nor shocking image here.

    This is compilation footage of Nazi concentration camps in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The footage was gathered by the US Department of Defense as part of the effort to document and conduct war crimes trials at Nurmemberg and used in other trials as well.

    This particular copy was dubbed from a video copy at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.

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    Nazi Concentration Camps : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
     
  2. sniper1946

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    I think a challenge of this magnitude being taken on by one so young, is a credit to alex's passion to tell/show the absolute horrors that befell too many, that had to pay the ultimate price, I'm sure the job he is undertaking, is a task that only he knows, the way in which he wants to tell it....and he will....thanks for all the inputs...
     
  3. edhunter76

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    thanks for appreciation ed..alex is working at this project daily, and although it will take time!..is a very well thought out subject matter, and! worthy thread..and very informative..
     
  5. edhunter76

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    These are the reasons why I got into WWII. These stories are told many times and by many, but there are not even one story too much. I've done a lot of reading about this subject, but I still have the need to trying to understand why this happened.
     
  6. Victor Gomez

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    I do not recall the names of the books but while I went to college we were required in a History class on WWII to look at photographs of the holocaust and there were some books packed thick with documentation in photos of what happened. I do not think nudity of the corpses could even be an issue as that is part of how the Nazi's denied any dignity to their victims. Since studying these things some of those pictures have stuck in my memory and I will not have to look twice to remember. I do not think it is subject matter for small children but I encourage anyone who is of age to look at pictures to see how much waste of humanity took place. The numbers of victims in the mathematical sense is shocking. However, numbers cannot do the justice of viewing what happened. The view of the bodies stacked so high before any dignified disposal will remain in many memories if you have a conscience. Every library should have those books to be complete and I encourage everyone to see these to recognize what is being talked about and how grossly profane and foul is the concept that agrees to and encourages "denial of the holocaust." I applaud anyone who invests time into the study of this subject matter. It is often in many classroom situations, easier, to cover the excitement and glory and not the frightening and alarming things that are so hard to understand and not very pleasant to expose yourself to. That makes it more convenient to forget something that should not be forgotten.
     
  7. sniper1946

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    Jewish survivors of the Holocaust - Archival Sound Recordings

    The testimonies on this site are drawn from a major oral history programme – The Living Memory of the Jewish Community – which between 1987 and 2000 gathered 186 audio life story interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their children. It was initiated by National Life Stories based in the BL’s oral history section and funded by a number of organisations including the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the John S Cohen Foundation and the Porjes Charitable Trust. A large number of volunteer interviewers, led by Jennifer Wingate and Bill Williams, were recruited and trained, and recordings were made with a wide range of survivors from many parts of Nazi-occupied Europe, with pre-war refugees (such as Kindertransport child migrants) and a smaller number of children of survivors.
     
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    The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims - six million were murdered. Roma (Gypsies), physically and mentally disabled people and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.
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  10. Chef des Todes

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    Nice job ;), That's going up as a main thread
     
  11. sniper1946

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    viewing warning!!! some pictures and video footage are of a sensitive, explicit, and graphic nature.....




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    photos, and the stories that lie behind them...

    [YOUTUBE]U7VsV7NscQo[/YOUTUBE] Treblinka, the story..

    [YOUTUBE]HZR8qglHxR0[/YOUTUBE] Auschwitz, factories of death..

    [YOUTUBE]a6jnawYwm3E[/YOUTUBE] The final solution..

    [YOUTUBE]kWofsOXwOSQ[/YOUTUBE] Dachau concentration camp...

    [YOUTUBE]ywoJW_8NTfs[/YOUTUBE] Breendonck et al..

    [GVIDEO]http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2074187239501225850#docid=-7754363390655845791[/GVIDEO] Nazi concentration camps, footage..

    [YOUTUBE]ukvXP1ZXqhs[/YOUTUBE] KZ Mathausen camp..

    [YOUTUBE]z-6tCERMLv4[/YOUTUBE] Nazi murder mills..

    [YOUTUBE]9i7w17B7AQo[/YOUTUBE] Chelmno in poland..

    [YOUTUBE]1COz_4qV11U[/YOUTUBE] Flossenburg camp..

    [YOUTUBE]aEhFRHeTi_w[/YOUTUBE] Salaspils concentration camp.

    [YOUTUBE]Rw6A034Yfxo[/YOUTUBE] Jasenovac - The cruelest death camp of all times, part 1/6

    [YOUTUBE]gTE5r4zTQI0[/YOUTUBE] Bergen-belsen, liberation 1945..

    [YOUTUBE]4GK1yL3xu_E[/YOUTUBE] Children from bergen-belsen concentration camp, after the liberation, find how to start to live again..:)
     
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    This commemorative book has been written to pay homage
    to all the Jewish victims deported between 1941 and 1945
    from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and to describe their fate.​

    Genocide of Czech Jews
     
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    It was once said that not remembering the Holocaust means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the other hand, to remember means to feel compassion for the victims of all persecutions.
    By solemnly commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust, we will keep history in mind, never forget the past, cherish all lives, and create a better future.

    Holocaust Survivors Stories www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
     
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    Ray;
    Well Germany's ceding total power to a fiend played a large part in that horrendous series of events that happened 70 years ago. But still-much of what happened back there remains incomprehensible. How was it that your average, decent minded German was cajoled into machine gunning civilians in ditches and the like? Sheer terror, my friend. NAZI had a system of control that was quite effective, and a machinery of state that dealt the harshest of reprisals upon all dissenters.
    JeffinMNUSA
     
  16. LRusso216

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    Jeff, I think the answer goes much deeper. While you are certainly correct that Hitler's terror machine kept down dissent, remember that there has been a long history of antisemitism in Europe generally, and in Germany specifically. The Nazis fed into this latent idea and elevated it into state policy. I kind of think it allowed the historical tendency to blame others to blossom into this horrible nightmare. I suspect that, had the means been available in earlier times, something like the Holocaust might have occurred in places like Russia (with its various pogroms) or even Poland. What the Nazis did was to legitimize antisemitism and make it part of the fabric of society. Then they applied modern industrial techniques to that policy, making the Holocaust possible.
     
  17. Birdymckee

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    I've been looking for the link between Noe and the site map for it, with all the links provided, I believe I've found the place where the camp once stood. Many Thanks :) -Birdy
     
  18. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    Where to put this..even more so how to put this....Anyone knowing me knows I abhore nazis..hate is the real word..the plans they had for my own nations males are enough to explain this Certainly not a holocaust denier Ive added enough on forums against the deniers..So before some of our younger or newer members lose their rag ...dont...Im not interested in insults...over 6million jews plus gypsies and even German socialists and others were murdered..murder is murder..state controlled murder is murder weather by bullet..gas..or typhus..or even starvation...Iknow of the early gas truck experiments..but to my question...what physical evidence is there on the gas chambers..locations and physical evidence...the census of european nations before 1939 confirm the holocaust...lets have no doubt on this..But what is the evidence of the physical gas chambers..?
     
  19. LRusso216

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    Here are three photos that I think are what you are looking for
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    The gas chamber and crematorium building V at Birkenau was one of six killing factories at the camp, which could process for murder more than 3,000 persons a day. The facility was dynamited by the Nazis to hide their crimes when they fled advancing Soviet troops.

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    The gas chamber inside the crematorium at the Majdanek camp in Lublin, Poland, has blue stains on the wall due to the use of Zyklon B gas, that was poured into special vents to murder mostly Jewish prisoners.

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    At Mauthausen concentration camp, the gas chamber was disguised as a shower, complete with phony plumbing fixtures seen here. The bodies of those killed were then dragged by prisoners to the ovens in a nearby room.

    The whole website has some interesting information, including a section on crematoria. Rudy Brueggemann's Nazi Terror Documentary Photos Home Page
     
  20. urqh

    urqh Tea drinking surrender monkey

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    Cheers Lou..Ill add them to my little project to look at. Is there any Jerry documented stuff around that you know of . Iknow they weremeticulous record keepers..which is how we get transportation numbers etc.. Any order or supply documentation would go a long way to pointing me ahead. Cheers .
     

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