Monday, August 26, 2013

Auschwitz--''Arbeit Macht Frei''





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 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened' -- General Dwight Eisenhower





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                               Auschwitz---1942-45 

                                          WE CANNOT LET IT EVER HAPPEN AGAIN
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                YOU THINK SO ?? IT HAS BEEN HAPPENING REGULARLY
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                                                                   Srebrenica---1992-95
                           (Just One Example)



Civilization has made man, if not always more

 bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more

 horribly bloodthirsty--


Fyodor Dostoevsky


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The entrance to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp                                            1945 

                                     
  ''Arbeit Macht Frei'' (WORK SETS YOU FREE)               


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           The entrance to the Manjaca Concentration                                                                                                                             Camp  1995           
“CONCENTRATION CAMP – PROHIBITED ENTRY''
                                                                                                          

             
   'Arbeit Macht Frei'

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Auschwitz I, the main camp, was the first camp established near Oswiecim. Construction began in May 1940 in an abandoned Polish army artillery barracks, located in a suburb of the city.In total, approximately 1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz. SS and police authorities deported approximately 200,000 other victims to Auschwitz, including 140,000-150,000non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), 15,000Soviet prisoners of war, and 25,000 others (Soviet civilians, Lithuanians, Czechs, French, Yugoslavs, Germans, Austrians, and Italians)

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The SS authorities established three main camps near the Polish city of Oswiecim: Auschwitz I in May 1940; Auschwitz II (also called Auschwitz-Birkenau) in early 1942; and Auschwitz III (also called Auschwitz-Monowitz) in October 1942


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Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political

 prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first 

extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941

 and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site


early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to

 the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied

 Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B






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PROSTHETICS
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SPECTACLES
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PERSONAL EFFECTS                                                                                    SUITCASES

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A CHILDS DOLL
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Searchlights and Guards around the perimeter

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At Auschwitz I, SS physicians carried out medical experimentsin the hospital, Barrack (Block) 10. They conducted pseudoscientific research on infants, twins, and dwarfs, and performed forced sterilizations, castrations, and hypothermia experiments on adults. The best-known of these physicians was SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele
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LEFT--BATHING POINTS AND WASH ROOMS



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BUNKS--STRAW WAS GIVEN , THE COLD WAS UNBEARABLE

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Auschwitz was considered a comfortable posting by many SS members, due to many amenities and the abundance of slave labor.Of the various prisoner groups, SS officers preferred Jehovah's Witnesses for household slaves because of their nonviolent behavior.Höss lived with his wife and children in a villa just outside the camp grounds. Other SS personnel were also initially allowed to bring fiancees, wives, and children to live at the camp, but when the SS camp grew more crowded, Höss restricted further arrivals. Facilities for the SS personnel and their families included a library, swimming pool, coffee house, and a theater that hosted regular performances


PhotoCamp commandant Rudolf Höss was pursued by the British Intelligence Corps, who arrested him at a farm near Flensburg, Germany on March 11, 1946. Höss confessed to his role in the mass killings at Auschwitz in his memoirs and in his trial in Warsaw, Poland. He was hanged at the camp on April 16, 1947  

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THE COMMANDANTS HOUSE(RIGHT)AND THE PLACE WHERE HE WAS HANGED LATER(BELOW)Photo





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CHIMNEY STACK OF THE GAS CHAMBERS AND THE CREMATORIUM-VISIBLE FROM THE COMMANDANTS HOUSE





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THE EXECUTION WALL-LINED UP AND SHOT


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CANS WHICH CONTAINED(CYCLONE B ) USED FOR KILLING IN THE GAS CHAMBERS


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CREMATORIUMS



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GAS CHAMBERS(NOTICE THE VENT ABOVE THE SHOWER ROOM FROM WHERE THE GAS WAS RELEASED

PhotoAt least 960,000 Jews were killed in Auschwitz. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma (Gypsies), and 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war; and 10,000-15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians)PhotoPhoto

Auschwitz-Birkenau



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Construction of Auschwitz II, or Auschwitz-Birkenau

 began in the vicinity of Brzezinka in October 1941. Of

 the three camps established near Oswiecim, the

 Auschwitz-Birkenau camp had the largest total prisoner

 population. It was divided into more than a dozen

 sections separated by electrified barbed-wire fences

 and, like Auschwitz I, was patrolled by SS guards




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Crammed Like Sardines-Living Barracks 


“Man is the cruelest animal.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche      PICTURE TAKEN FROM THE                                                                   AUSCHWITZ MUSEUM --

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ABOVE THE RAILWAY SIDING WHERE PRISONERS DIS-EMBARKED , SOME WERE LEAD DIRECT TO THE ''SHOWERS"
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Photo above-Courtesy Tony Sarao   THE BIRKENAU CREMATORIUM , BLOWN UP AS THE RUSSIANS ADVANCED
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PLEASE NOTE , ALL PICTURES BELOW ARE FROM OPEN SOURCES (INTERNET)




In the end , remember . Auschwitz was neither the first nor the last--Every country on this Earth has an Auschwitz to hide





LEBANON

On16-09-82, the Israeli army controlled West Beirut, sealed off the 2 Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila and fired shells at them. Later, the Israeli military command gave the Israeli-allied Lebanese Phalangist militia the green light to enter the refugee camps. For the next 40 hours the Phalangist militia raped, killed, and injured a large number of unarmed civilians, mostly children, women and elderly people SABRA & SHATILA





SYRIA--Gas & Kill Your Own Citizens!!


A COLLECTIVE SILENCE???



IRAQ

Iraq skeletonAmiriyah shelter bombing was an aerial attack that killed more than 408 civilians  on 13 February 1991 during the Persian Gulf War when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25"), also referred to as the Al Firdos C3 bunker by the U.S. military, in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two laser-guided "smart bombs"


HIGH WAY OF DEATH
Demolished vehicles line Highway 80 on 18 Apr 1991.jpg    ist 

starved Iraqi baby

Not all the deaths are from war, bullets ,

 and white phosphorus. Some come from

denial of sanitation, food , basic human

 rights and cruelty of mankind





“The hottest places in hell are reserved for

 those who, in times of great moral crisis, 

maintain their neutrality.”



― Dante AlighieriInferno






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