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mikeg826
10-17-2011, 8:41am
Warning : some photos are graphic
:sadangel::sadangel:
InFocus is in the midst of a 20-party photo series on World War II , this episode deals with the concentration camps/Holocaust
World War II: The Holocaust - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/)
nhlgopens
10-17-2011, 8:48am
My grandfather was there at the liberation of Dachau. I have original pictures that were taken by the battalion photographer that have never been published. I found out this information after my grandpa had passed away. When I asked him about his time at war, he always told me that he saw things in his lifetime that no man should ever see. I now realize that this is what he was talking about. :patriot:
joecaver
10-17-2011, 8:51am
I couldn't look at them all. It is just too much horror. :sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel:
Bucwheat
10-17-2011, 9:05am
There was some sick chit going on in that war.:sadangel:
HeatherO
10-17-2011, 9:22am
sending to my daughter, who is a World History major.
Thanks for posting.
Sea Six
10-17-2011, 9:29am
Unbelievable, the sheer horror of what happened.
nhlgopens
10-17-2011, 9:33am
Unbelievable, the sheer horror of what happened.
... and yet, some claim it never happened. :rolleyes:
Superstreet
10-17-2011, 9:38am
Brutal. :sadangel:
The Holocaust museum in D.C. is a somber experience. :sadangel:
Blademaker
10-17-2011, 9:53am
... and yet, some claim it never happened. :rolleyes:
And those people are fck'n morons. :crazy:
Yerf Dog
10-17-2011, 10:09am
I couldn't not look at these photos.
Sad.
G8rDMD
10-17-2011, 10:14am
My grandfather was there at the liberation of Dachau. I have original pictures that were taken by the battalion photographer that have never been published. I found out this information after my grandpa had passed away. When I asked him about his time at war, he always told me that he saw things in his lifetime that no man should ever see. I now realize that this is what he was talking about. :patriot:
My grandfather was there too :cert::cert: :patriot: He took some photos, which I now have, of some of the absolute horror they found there :sadangel:
ConstantChange
10-17-2011, 10:21am
Unbelievable. What a f'ked up world we live in.
VatorMan
10-17-2011, 10:25am
Just. Horrible.
themonk
10-17-2011, 10:31am
Just goes to show what pieces of shit humans are. :sadangel:
Joecooool
10-17-2011, 10:33am
My Grandmother lost almost her entire extended family. They were killed because they were Polish.
island14
10-17-2011, 10:34am
To think about the hell that a lot of these people had to live through!
Even just children...
:sadangel:
Iron Chef
10-17-2011, 11:49am
My mom and grandma were Holocaust survivors. They were hidden for a year in a basement by a group of Polish sympathizers. When they were discovered, they were sent to Auschwitz for 4 years. My real grandfather never made it out. My step-grandfather had numbers tattooed on his forearm. I asked him once what the numbers were (I was 5 years old). He said "Oh...it's my telephone number so I don't forget."
Years later when I knew what they were, I felt like a shit for asking.
My mom's best friend and their family lived in Munich and were hidden in a dug out basement in the middle of a field. She was born underground and didn't see daylight for over three years.
I've seen those pics...and worse. People should keep right on seeing them too...so we never forget. :sadangel:
Superstreet
10-17-2011, 12:07pm
My mom and grandma were Holocaust survivors. They were hidden for a year in a basement by a group of Polish sympathizers. When they were discovered, they were sent to Auschwitz for 4 years. My real grandfather never made it out. My step-grandfather had numbers tattooed on his forearm. I asked him once what the numbers were (I was 5 years old). He said "Oh...it's my telephone number so I don't forget."
Years later when I knew what they were, I felt like a shit for asking.
My mom's best friend and their family lived in Munich and were hidden in a dug out basement in the middle of a field. She was born underground and didn't see daylight for over three years.
I've seen those pics...and worse. People should keep right on seeing them too...so we never forget. :sadangel:
Wow! :sadangel:
G8rDMD
10-17-2011, 12:59pm
My mom and grandma were Holocaust survivors. They were hidden for a year in a basement by a group of Polish sympathizers. When they were discovered, they were sent to Auschwitz for 4 years. My real grandfather never made it out. My step-grandfather had numbers tattooed on his forearm. I asked him once what the numbers were (I was 5 years old). He said "Oh...it's my telephone number so I don't forget."
Years later when I knew what they were, I felt like a shit for asking.
My mom's best friend and their family lived in Munich and were hidden in a dug out basement in the middle of a field. She was born underground and didn't see daylight for over three years.
I've seen those pics...and worse. People should keep right on seeing them too...so we never forget. :sadangel:
:sadangel::sadangel:
I would offer to scan and upload the pics my grandfather took, but they're definitely not work/family safe. Suffice it to say they are pictures of dead, naked bodies piled several feet high. My grandfather wrote in his journal of being entrenched in the outlying areas of Dachau and smelling the burning bodies at night and having the ashes fall on him and his company like snow :sadangel:
c6vetteinhouston
10-17-2011, 1:11pm
Today, there are many nations that are teaching that this event never happened. How said. Like 9-11, it should be taugh at every level of jr high school through college history classes.
nhlgopens
10-17-2011, 1:37pm
:sadangel::sadangel:
I would offer to scan and upload the pics my grandfather took, but they're definitely not work/family safe. Suffice it to say they are pictures of dead, naked bodies piled several feet high. My grandfather wrote in his journal of being entrenched in the outlying areas of Dachau and smelling the burning bodies at night and having the ashes fall on him and his company like snow :sadangel:
The pictures I have show men literally stacking bodies prior to burning... and them off-loading more bodies from a truck flatbed. I don't recall my grandpa keeping a diary. I wish he did. It seems the more I found out about his Army life, the more questions I have. But as most, they never talked about it - so I've found little details through out the years.
My grandpa was with the 256th Engineering Combat Battalion. He was the radio operator for Headquarters and Service Company. He was drafted into the Army at 30 yrs old. His honorable discharge was March 1946 as a Tech Sergeant / Warrant officer (grade WO1). Recipient of two Bronze Stars. :patriot:
69camfrk
10-17-2011, 5:17pm
I've seen many photos of the war and its atrocities. These just added to. I find it amazing that humans could treat other humans that way. Thing is, atrocities like that go on every day in this world almost unnoticed.:sadangel:
khblair
10-17-2011, 5:31pm
sigh :sadangel:
Jeff '79
10-17-2011, 6:20pm
I've seen a lot of that stuff, but that is certainly some of the worst that I've seen. I sent the link to my uncle, who has authored books, on the prison camps, and asked if he has seen these...I'd be interested to hear if he has.
They were a fk'd up lot of criminals.....How humans can do that is beyond me.
OddBall
10-17-2011, 6:31pm
The depths of human depravity is bottomless.
mrvette
10-17-2011, 6:44pm
The depths of Socialist depravity is bottomless.
There, fixed it for you, and that isn't even 10% of what communism has killed in the last century, and is killing NOW for that matter.....
or some brand of socialist either for that matter, same thing, different name....
all else is parcing terms....:sadangel::leaving:
Dan Dlabay
10-17-2011, 7:23pm
Those pictures show what the world must make sure never happens again.:sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel:
Those pictures show what the world must make sure never happens again.:sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel::sadangel:
Yet it did happen and was never discussed. Russia killed nearly 20 million of their own, China killed even more. And lets not forget the killing in Africa and Cambodia.
BADRACR1
10-17-2011, 8:39pm
:sadangel::sadangel:
MEANZ06
10-17-2011, 8:40pm
Yet it did happen and was never discussed. Russia killed nearly 20 million of their own, China killed even more. And lets not forget the killing in Africa and Cambodia.
not to be morbid or anything but do you have links that i can read about this? I've never heard of it...
not to be morbid or anything but do you have links that i can read about this? I've never heard of it...
Start here and look around. It was taught in school back in the 60's and 70's but I guess telling the world the communists were as bad, if not worse, that Nazi's is not politically correct.
How Many Did Stalin Really Murder? | The Distributed Republic (http://www.distributedrepublic.net/archives/2006/05/01/how-many-did-stalin-really-murder/)
Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Re-education through labor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-education_through_labor)
The Black Book of Communism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Death Camp of Communist China - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. - Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/2652)
And you can also look up the Ottoman Empire and Armeinian. Those tolerant Muslims.
Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide (http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ottoman.html)
Frizzle
10-17-2011, 9:34pm
Yet it did happen and was never discussed. Russia killed nearly 20 million of their own, China killed even more. And lets not forget the killing in Africa and Cambodia.
Very true!
Flatbush Harry
10-17-2011, 11:31pm
Warning : some photos are graphic
:sadangel::sadangel:
InFocus is in the midst of a 20-party photo series on World War II , this episode deals with the concentration camps/Holocaust
World War II: The Holocaust - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/)
More than half my grandfather's and grandmother's family on my father's side was murdered by the Nazis and their puppets during the holocaust. We must never forget.
Herschel ben Froyim ben Herschel, reverently
PS-I witnessed Cambodia, Bosnia, Herzogovina and Rwanda/Burundi, albeit on the evening news. Will humanity never learn?
FH
Unbelievable. What a f'ked up world we live in.
We live in the Devil's world.
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