ANC
Prison Camp
When blacks turn nasty they turn very nasty. Their concentration camp,
Quadro was run on scientific lines combining the nastiness of Russian operations
with South African style. Is this all public? Not very. The media are selling
the idea that
Nelson Mandela is a living saint. Quadro does not fit their story.
Auschwitz
One of the commandants of Auschwitz concentration camp,
Rudolf Höß, was captured, tried, signed a confession, testified at
Nuremburg and hanged. His statement was written in English, a language he
did not understand. It says some 3 million were killed there.
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp ex Wiki
Was run by the Germans & captured by the British. Here
Mark Weber of the
Institute for Historical Review [
http://www.ihr.org/ ] puts a view -
Bergen-Belsen. The
Wikipedia chooses to
allege that Mr. Weber is a
Holocaust® denier. I choose to allege that I do not
believe the Wiki.
The Brits who were there in the aftermath were not amused by what they saw.
PS One was Richard Dimbleby of the BBC. Somebody using
Swordman as an alias, one who went
through a lot was there on D Day. He landed on Sword
Beach. He said that people believed Dimbleby where they wouldn't others. Hear for
yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself. It's at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5115.shtml
Buchenwald
Is a
bit north of Weimar in eastern Germany. The camp was seriously nasty. Some guards were enthusiastic sadists.
F. F. E.
Yeo-Thomas of the SOE passed that way. His book,
The White
Rabbit, his nom de guerre
gives the nasty details at page 189 onwards. His testimony was very helpful
in getting four perpetrators hanged. Jews were not treated as well.
PS There was a camp band as well as
a brothel, costing 2 Marks a time. It was, notwithstanding a place of evil.
It looks it to this day.
Dachau
Is north of Munich
in the American zone.
Majdanek
It was not a fun place to be. Some 78,000 deaths prove that but they are nothing
like as bad as the 1.7 million claimed by the Soviets or the 1.7 million
achieved by Eisenhower.
Oranienburg Concentration Camp
became
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp then
NKVD Special
Camp Nr. 7, which was renamed Special Camp No. 1.
Scores:-
Oranienburg 16 dead
Sachsenhausen circa 30,000 dead
NKVD 12,000 plus
dead.
Sachsenhausen was the head office of the Nazi concentration camp
organisation.
There is a grim truth here. Work does make free - through the peace of the
grave.
Faith, a book by Len Deighton tells us at page viii that customers at Sachsenhausen concentration camp included eminent German generals, Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Henry Stevens, senior SIS men whose loss crippled British SIS for the duration, Peter Churchill of SOE, Martin Niemoller, Stalin's son, Bismark's grandson, Paul Reynaud, Fritz Thyssen, Kurt Schuschnigg the Austrian chancellor and sundry others. He claims that they went in for Jew gassing and Operation Bernhard, a first class forgery outfit.
Who Worked at Ravensbrück?
Ravensbrück Concentration
Camp was only for women, mainly political prisoners.
Kate Docking's essay is based on her PhD thesis, corresponding closely
with the Wiki
and the Party Line.
She tells us that women might or might not have been volunteers. In fact Traudl Junge, who was naughty little Adolf's secretary tells us in her book, Bis Zur Letzten Stunde [ Until the last hour ] at page 36 that she could not become a dancer, that she had to do what she was ordered to do by government apparatchiks.
Ravensbrück
Concentration Camp ex Wiki
Ravensbrück (pronounced
[ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a German
concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in
northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of
Berlin at
a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of
Fürstenberg/Havel). The largest single national group consisted of
40,000 Polish women. Others included 26,000 Jewish from all countries,
18,800 Russian, 8,000 French, and 1,000 Dutch. More than 80 percent were
political prisoners. Many slave labor prisoners were employed by
Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945,
medical experiments to test the effectiveness of
sulfonamides were undertaken.
In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp's gas chambers in 1944. Of some 130,000 female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 of them perished, some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers and 15,000 survived until liberation.
List Of Concentration Camps
It may well be complete. It is certainly long at well over 3,000. It has all
that I know of. The Wikipedia's list is much shorter - see
List of concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
Theresienstadt
Another place not to be. Too many were.
Belsen Report
An Englishman quotes a source.
Swordman got about. He was there on the Day, on D Day, on Sword Beach. Whence the pseudonym:-His book has sold out sadly - see Madness of war depicted in 89-year-old Swanage soldier’s memoirs
I searched through my "stuff" and found the original document of army
medical staff that entered the camp.
Lest We Forget.
This is an
exact copy of an original report by the Medical Services attending at Belsen
concentration camp. Given me by Alan Westerman. nothing has been added or
taken away. The original document was printed on thin war time paper, and is
very old and worn. This is the original report, verbatim.
Belsen
Concentration Camp
Visited 22 Apr 45, 6 days after its capture by Second
Army.
I was accompanied on my tour of inspection by RAMC officers
who were engaged on relief work in the camp, and this constituted my
authority for the few statements in this report which I cannot claim were
the results of my own observations.
The camp contained 60,000
political prisoners, and this population consisted of men, women and
children. They were of various nationalities; Russian, Polish, Dutch, French
and to a small extent, German. Jews were in the majority, all were
accommodated in huts.
It is obvious that the Germans did not intend
that any of the prisoners should leave the camp alive, and the method of
destruction which was chosen was death by very slow torture, i.e. By
starvation. The rations given to the prisoners consisted of one cup of Swede
soup a day, and one loaf of black bread for every twelve persons, per week.
In addition to this, the Germans ensured that by the deliberate withholding
of adequate sanitation, diseases such as dysentery, typhoid, typhus and
tuberculosis, should become seriously prevalent, and in this latter object
they were highly successful.
When they realised some weeks ago that
the camp would be captured, the Germans ordered that no further burials
would take place, and so there were found in the camp, lying singly, or in
large or small heaps, no fewer than 18,000 corpses which had accumulated at
the rate of 500 per day.
The first thing which I saw was the washing
of women patients who had been brought to the camp by ambulance car to the
German barracks adjoining the camp. It was a pitiful sight. The washing was
done by German nurses who had been brought from elsewhere. The prisoners
bodies were completely without fat, and muscle was negligible. Bones were on
the point of breaking the skin, which in all cases was affected with bed
sores, excoriations and disease. These women were completely helpless and
screamed with pain as the nurses moved them.
It was almost
impossible to assess the age of these women. Their hair had been cropped or
cut very short, and they seemed little else but skeletons, clothed in skin.
Their shrunken bodies, their shorn heads and the evidence of past and
present suffering, made them all appear to be old. Their screams seemed to
exhaust them. The contrast between them and the sleek and healthy German
nurses who attended them, will not be easily forgotten. So light were these
women that two were easily carried on one stretcher and there was still
plenty of room. I visited the ward where the women were taken after being
washed. The English Nursing Sister in charge spoke of the severe shock,
which took 12 hours to show signs of abatement, in those patients who were
expected to live. Here they were at least clean, and if they were to die,
they would not die in filth.
An adequate description of the camp is
difficult. It covers many acres and strewn through out the camp were naked,
or semi-naked corpses. Sometimes singly, sometimes in heaps of a dozen, or
forty or fifty. These mounds of bodies appeared to occasion no concern on
the part of the prisoners; the sight had become to familiar. All these
people had died by starvation, by preventable disease or both.
There
was a huge pit 100yds long and 40yds wide, almost full of corpses, still
unburied. I cannot give the depth of this pit, but there appeared to be
about 100 corpses therein. It is not known how many hundred lay underneath
those I saw.
Latrines, if they existed at all, were primitive, and
prisoners of both sexes were seen defecating anywhere and everywhere. I
visited a hut full of women. They were lying in bunks, two or three lying in
one bunk intended for one person. Some could smile and talk, others lay
there moaning or silent. Two or three were defecating into tins in the hut.
Most of the women were too weak to leave their bunks, with the obvious
results. The stench in the room was ghastly. None of the prisoners had had
the opportunity or the strength to wash for weeks. Almost all showed the
flush and bright eyes of fever.
Another hut contained some women who
were even more ill and with them were the dead and dying. All were
accommodated on mattresses, one inch thick. Those who were conscious moaned
with pain or weakness. One of them held her hand for my attention. A finger
was swollen to nearly its double size with a whitlow, and she begged me to
help her. Her agony must have been intense and her condition was such that
the simplest surgery could have prevented it. This woman had on her right
side a corpse and on her left, one who was unconscious and on the point of
dying. When I left this hut I asked to see the Hospital which the Germans
provided for their sick women prisoners. I was told that this last hut was
the hospital. It had less right to the title of hospital than anything I
have ever seen.
In contrast to the prisoners who had been in the
camp for months, or even years, there were those who had been fairly
recently admitted. They were thin but they could walk and it was appalling
to consider that the latter would inevitably would have become as the
former, had the camp not been captured.
I was told that I had not
seen the camp at its worst and that already there was an improvement.
Although very many cases, including those suffering from Typhus, had been,
and were being rescued from the camp by RAMC personnel, it was quite certain
that many so rescued were beyond hope of recovery. I do not know the total
deaths in the camp, but I do know that there are still hundreds of men and
women yet to die. Solely as a result of their being prisoners in BELSEN.
23. April, 45. Army Medical Services
http://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/swordman-1941-1944.207683/page-8
More And Better Details
A friend's father was RAMC liberating Belsen.
and he told me of a near mutiny when the squaddies were told to bury the
dead.
It seems there was a parade where the brass were basically
told, " WE will take our chances with the Germans, but we are not doing
this."
That was when bulldozers were bought in to put the bodies
into mass graves. About 26.5 mins into the film,
If I remember,
one of the last scenes in "Night and the Fog" after the Nacht und Nebel
decree.
Nuit et Brouillard (1955) on Vimeo
I hope that the link works.
It does!
Regards
Bletchley
Decrypts Of Concentration Camp Traffic
Bletchley's output was above TOP SECRET so casualties from Nazi camps were
not a priority but they do exist. Read for yourself. Think for yourself.
Decide for yourself.
