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The Eisenhower's Rhine-Meadows Death Camps..

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  1. SERIOUS7

    SERIOUS7 New Member

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    Do i feel sorry for them..?
    Hell no..!

    Logistics had a lot to do with the lack of food but who was in a hurry to feed the Nazis after all the crap they pulled on innocent people ..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbp61fOVFaE
     
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    The camps were real and the conditions were bad, but it was due more to Germans surrendering faster than the allies could deal with them, than anything else. Then as the war ended, somebody made the political decision to "de-nazify" the prisoners instead of just letting them go home. So, they began combing them for Waffen SS and party officials hiding among the soldiers, which delayed the release. Much of the misery was due to poor organization - food just dumped off at the gate so that the weaker prisoners couldn't get their share - stuff like that.

    A Canadian named Bacque wrote a book a few years ago describing them as death camps and wildly inflating the actual death numbers. His numbers have been looked at and completely debunked by serious researchers, yet this story keeps popping up by those who don't know any better.
     
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    I tell ya what , none of it look like a five-star hotel and i don't care what happen to them.. With a Air Force as big as the USAF you can't tell me they couldn't air drop or truck in tones of goods to these Nazis..
    It was pure apathy .. After all the BS they started now they want somebody to feel sorry for their a*$'s...
    So i guess the holocaust never really happen either right..?
     
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    And there are a thousand words in a picture..


    When i look at the pain and suffering that the Nazis brought on millions of innocent people regardless of race , ethic background , or religion etc , i don't feel sorry for them..


    "YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW".
     
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    Do you make a distinction between "Nazis" and "Germans", or do you just lump them all into one category?
     
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    I tell you what , i have a list of Nazi concentrations camps located in Germany and their extermination camps located in Poland on my computer...

    I believe if those extermination camps were located in Germany and the German people found out what was going on in there i really believe their humanity would come to the top and Hitler would loose support from his people..

    To sit back and believe that an entire people could be that damn evil , i don't buy it..
     
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    Is there an answer to my question buried in there somewhere?
     
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    It sure is ...
     
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    Have a read at this from the Holocaust section-
    "A new book about the closing days of World War II chronicles how German civilians murdered many concentration camp survivors as they moved through their towns and villages on infamous 'death marches' back into the shrinking Reich.
    The violence shows how even with their nation in ruins, the Allies advancing on all fronts and the war hopeless, ordinary people were so indoctrinated with Nazi hate they were prepared to kill defenceless people in cold blood.
    'The Death Marches: The Final Phase Of Nazi Genocide,' by Daniel Blatman, is the first book to research what drove these civilians to acts of savage murder.

    Some 500,000 prisoners from the concentration camp gulag both within and without Germany were on the move in the first months of 1945.
    As the Allies advanced, the shocking fate of approximately half of them became all too apparent.
    Blatman says that in the town of Gardelegen, a town in east-central Germany, U.S. soldiers found hundreds of charred and mangled bodies in a barn in mid-April 1945.
    'They were the bodies of prisoners from various camps who had been forced inside,' says the Israeli whose book is published this week and goes on sale in Germany.
    'It was later discovered that people had volunteered to guard the prisoners, including ordinary civilians, some of them armed with hunting rifles, who mutated into prison guards of their own volition."

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347908/WW2-Holocaust-Even-German-civilians-killed-concentration-camp-survivors.html#ixzz1BN5bJkj2
     
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    I posted some pics of the memorials to the camp at Remagen that I took in 2008.
    Sorry to say I deleted my photobucket account so there's no point linking to that thread but was an interesting place to visit.
     
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    Calling them "Death camps" is IMO a rather classic example of the worst branch of revisionism. Certainly conditions there were bad. On the other hand one of the reasons they were so bad as that it was determined that at least in the US zone as much or more calories would be allocated to civilians as to former military. For the first few months after the war ended food was very short for civilians as well and not just in Germany. An indication of how bad things were is the Germans didn't even fire at some RAF relief flights late in the war that dropped food into Holland. Nor did they confiscate all the food or even try from what I've read. If the war had continued into 1946 the casualties from famines from the Urals to the Atlantic would have been incredible even by WWII standards.
     
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    I always find it hard to shed tears for an Army that starved 2 million Soviet prisoners to death in the first couple of years of the campaign. Yes, we are a democracy and we should allow these bleeding heart pretend Nazi wan**rs their voice but they do miss the point that if their friend Hitler had won then things would have been very different.

    What's amazing is not how many members of the German army died in Soviet and allied captivity, but after what we found, saw and knew had been done by them is how few died in captivity.
     
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