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

Tim Strzechowski Dedalus204 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 27 05:16:56 CDT 2005


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.





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