1.
Eishenhower made the US army film the camps
He said that somewhere in the future , someone will say that this never happened. he wanted it recorded as proof. he was a brilliant man!
147 points - added 12 years ago by redbarron80 - 1 comment
Comments:
What a great man
Added 6 years ago by guest, 11 points
2.
Roosevelt refused to bomb the railroads saying, 'The best thing we can do for these people is win the war.'
15 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
3.
The first camp was built in 1933.
The press announced it would accommodiate 'All Communists' it had space for 5,000
15 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
4.
After 1942 many camps were set up near factories to provide slave labor.
11 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
5.
There was a special camp just for women, Ravensbruck.
The now famous Christian Corrie Ten Boom spent time there.
10 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
6.
All prisoners were forced to colored triangles for identification.
Red was for communists, green was for common criminals, pink was for homosexual men, purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, black for gypsies and yellow for Jews.
10 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
7.
Germany tried to hide the extermination by telling thier countrymen they were being relocated.
Reasuring postcards were sent back to the Jewish Ghettos for relatives to believe all was well at their new location.
7 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
8.
Roughly half of the Jewish Population of Europe was exterminated.
About 5 million others died at the hands of the Nazis.
3 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
9.
In 1941, gassing vans were used until the first death camp could be constructed.
1 point - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
10.
Townspeople outside of the camps were made to walk through the camps and see what had been allowed to happen.
No one would claim responsibility, it was only fear that kept the townspeople quiet.
-1 point - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
11.
Thousands of prisoners were transported by boxcar.
Some were kept in the boxcar for days, even weeks without food or water many died of dehydration or froze to death in the winter.
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12.
Jews were not the first to be incarcerated without judicial process.
The first to be exterminated were the mentally ill, political prisoners, criminals, gypsies and the Jehovah's Witnesses. The Nazis considered these undesireables.
-1 point - added 12 years ago by JanetK - 1 comment
Comments:
sad
Added 9 years ago by guest, 2 points
13.
The exact number of those murdered at the camps will never be known.
Towards the end of the war exterminations were being done so quickly there was no time for documentation.
-2 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
14.
Gold was removed from the teeth of the gassed victims.
The gold was melted down and given to the S.S. for use as currency.
-2 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
15.
Towards the end of WWII some camps were used for medial experiments.
Experimental and lethal medicines were all tried on prisoners.
-2 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
16.
Many prisoners were killed for not working fast enough at slave labor camps.
-2 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK - 2 comments
Comments:
That's true but why
Added 6 years ago by guest, 0 points
how cruel
Added 9 years ago by guest, 3 points
17.
In Auschwitz Birkenau more than 20,000 people were gassed and cremated each day.
The gasing facilities were disguised as shower facilities. Cyanide pellets were dropped into the the building.
-3 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
18.
In early 1942 as Jews arrived in the camps there was no selections process they were destroyed upon arrival.
-3 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
19.
Six death camps were set up in Poland.
These were called 'Death Factories' Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Soribor, Lublin and Chelmno.
-4 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK -
20.
Before the end of the war as much evidence as possible about the camps was destroyed.
-6 points - added 12 years ago by JanetK - 1 comment
Comments:
I can't believe how brutal it was in those times
Added 6 years ago by guest, 1 point
21.
Never in the history of the world has there been such death and suffering in such as short period of time.
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