"The Evacuation still proceeds..." GR Part 1 Section 1

[François Monti]

Paul Mackin wrote:

>
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
>
>> Paul:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> As a friend who was there once told me, in a labor camp (where he   
>>> was) you got a number tattooed on your arm; in a death camp you  
>>> didn't.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> My point is, in a labor camp the labor (not to mention the Nazis  
>> overseeing that labor) could pretty much kill you, so making a  
>> distinction between a "labor" camp and a "death" camp is, imho, a  
>> thin one.
>>
>>
>>
> My friend with the tattooed  forearm  is still alive. He was only in  
> his teens during the war.
>
> However for many  slave labor was a virtual death sentence.
> .
>
>
Note that in Death camps, you also did get a tattoed forearm: not 
everyone was killed immediately, and some people survived to two years 
of Auschwitz...

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