Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Auschwitz, Nazi death camp

http://www.auschwitz.dk/auschwitz.htm
Summary: Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Zyklon-B gas began at Auschwitz. Children were killed upon arrival (burned or gased). Mengele (Angel of Death) loved to experiment on twins and then he'd kill them. Clauberg injected women's wombs and they exploded in pain. October 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trials-some defendants found guilty of lethal experiments in camps and put in jail.

Quotes: Lucie Adelsberger describes the life of the children:
"Like the adults, the kids were only a mere bag of bones, without muscles or fat, and the thin skin like pergament scrubbed through and through beyond the hard bones of the skeleton and ignited itself to ulcerated wounds. Abscesses covered the underfed body from the top to the bottom and thus deprived it from the last rest of energy. The mouth was deeply gnawed by noma-abscesses, hollowed out the jaw and perforated the cheeks like cancer". Many decaying bodies were full of water because of the burning hunger, they swelled to shapeless bulks which could not move anymore. Diarrhoea, lasting for weeks, dissolved their irresistant bodies until nothing remained ....."

One twin recalls the death of his brother:
"Dr. Mengele had always been more interested in Tibi. I am not sure why - perhaps because he was the older twin. Mengele made several operations on Tibi. One surgery on his spine left my brother paralyzed. He could not walk anymore. Then they took out his sexual organs. After the fourth operation, I did not see Tibi anymore. I cannot tell you how I felt. It is impossible to put into words how I felt. They had taken away my father, my mother, my two older brothers - and now, my twin ..."

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