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

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 1:07 PM, François Monti wrote:

> Paul Mackin wrote:
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>> On Oct 27, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
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>>> Paul:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> My friend with the tattooed  forearm  is still alive. He was only  
>> in  his teens during the war.
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>> However for many  slave labor was a virtual death sentence.
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> 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...

Yes, A section of Auschwitz  contained people they intended to keep  
for a while. It was good news when you got the tattoo. The friend I  
mentioned was at Auschwitz from 1942-1945. He was still in his teens  
during these years but had useful language skills (German. Polish,  
Russian) He owes his survival to being useful and being young.  Simon  
Wiesenthal also survived this section of Auschwitz.  These Jews were  
not meant to  survive. It was particularly important to the Final  
Solution that they not survive. The Nazis were Darwinians. When  
Germany surrendered the survivors just left. Had to live off the  
land,  mostly on the potatoes they could dig up.


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