How could that be? What were the British bombers doing for years if not degrading German industrial capacity?
Was it all squirreled away in the Bavarian mountains?
Also, what was the purpose of the German concentration camps (the ones sans gas chambers..Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald etc?)
From what I understand, the non Polish camps were just terrible work camps, where the ideas was to pretty much work the inmates to death or have them die naturally from disease and starvation.
One canard of the Holocaust deniers is that the reason so many inmates died was because of allied saturation bombings which destroyed the German ability to feed the prisoners. Is that true, or were they deliberately starved?
I understand the liberation of Bergen-Belsen was an especially horrifying event. While it was good the prisoners were released, many of them died immediately after liberation, and the British army found itself traumatized and swamped by the aftermath of the liberation.
Did they burn it to the ground out of hatred for it, or just because it was a massive typhus house?
One thing I notice, is that the world is running out of holocaust survivors. There just aren't that many people left who were adults when they went to the camps. These days holocaust survivors is a label to any Jewish person who lived in Europe during the 1930s-40s.
Nowadays it seems all the holocaust survivors were at Aushwitz and no other camp, all of them were experimented on by Dr. Mengele (he can't be everywhere at once!).
There aren't really masterful works on the camps anymore. In the old days it was Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi and (Rest their souls) Anne and Otto Frank.
In the past 20 years there have been massive numbers of memoirs written about the camps, some of which turned out to be false.
1.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/US/story?id=6903068
2.https://carolynyeager.net/holocaust-scholar-finds-“diamond-girl”-be-work-fiction
3.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/24/holocaust-survivor-lied-joseph-hirt-auschwitz
Was it all squirreled away in the Bavarian mountains?
Also, what was the purpose of the German concentration camps (the ones sans gas chambers..Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald etc?)
From what I understand, the non Polish camps were just terrible work camps, where the ideas was to pretty much work the inmates to death or have them die naturally from disease and starvation.
One canard of the Holocaust deniers is that the reason so many inmates died was because of allied saturation bombings which destroyed the German ability to feed the prisoners. Is that true, or were they deliberately starved?
I understand the liberation of Bergen-Belsen was an especially horrifying event. While it was good the prisoners were released, many of them died immediately after liberation, and the British army found itself traumatized and swamped by the aftermath of the liberation.
Did they burn it to the ground out of hatred for it, or just because it was a massive typhus house?
One thing I notice, is that the world is running out of holocaust survivors. There just aren't that many people left who were adults when they went to the camps. These days holocaust survivors is a label to any Jewish person who lived in Europe during the 1930s-40s.
Nowadays it seems all the holocaust survivors were at Aushwitz and no other camp, all of them were experimented on by Dr. Mengele (he can't be everywhere at once!).
There aren't really masterful works on the camps anymore. In the old days it was Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi and (Rest their souls) Anne and Otto Frank.
In the past 20 years there have been massive numbers of memoirs written about the camps, some of which turned out to be false.
1.http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/US/story?id=6903068
2.https://carolynyeager.net/holocaust-scholar-finds-“diamond-girl”-be-work-fiction
3.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/24/holocaust-survivor-lied-joseph-hirt-auschwitz
