My uncle Eldon was among the soldiers to liberate the death camps.

the mass killings really happened.... 6 million Jews, 10 million "Christians". millions of political prisoners, ethnic minoritoies....
20 million Russians.....

at least one million Jews were killed in Russia by the the roving death squads following the advance of the German army;; before the camps were set up in Poland......

A total of 50 million people died in the 2nd world war....

Eisenhower said: take pictures of everything; so that no one can deny it happened

Hi Lewis!! Nice hearing from you again....

Everyone has their own opinion, and I have mine. I don't trust ANY people's tales of "woe", as I have found that lots of exaggerations have gone on throughout the years. People tend to LOVE to expound on the truth, and usually with stories that begin, "I have an aunt that...etc", or "My grandmother's uncle went through it and"...etc.

I, myself, wasn't there. Would I have believed my own mother if she told me all about it? Not really, as my mother loved to tell tall tales that weren't always true...nevertheless, I still loved her deeply. But I wasn't a fool enough to base my life's philosophy from those tales she told.

However, I will believe ANYTHING that the Bible says is the truth. So, my dear Lewis, point out the SCRIPTURE VERSE which tells all about it!

(I haven't found it....yet! But maybe you have.....just saying!)


In Christian love,

Arlene


PS Thousands, if not millions, of people over there died of typhus during those years. Pictures were taken of the piles of these bodies of victims of this disease. Can I distinguish between these pictures and ones of any other groups of victims of hunger, disease, or war? NO!! Captions may lie.

Below is a piece from Wikepedia on the typhus during WWII. That's what the Xylon-X (or something like that) was used for....to delouse the people so that the disease wouldn't spread.

There exist pictures of piles of emaciated (skinny through malnutrition) dead bodies of these victims. (I would rather not view them, as this serves no purpose...like pornography). Some confuse them with holocaust victims. However, the Holocaust victims were supposedly gassed to death, then their bodies were taken to a crematorium within the same building complex. I have never read that they were piled up to rot and stink outside.

The leaders must have been crazy, or stupid....or both. Or we are crazy to believe some of the stories we are told.

And if they were all starving to death, why gas them anyway?

Another question I have is, if those bodies were piled up to be put into massive graves, then why would a crematorium even be needed?? Think about it!





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Epidemic typhus is thus found most frequently during times of war and deprivation. For example, typhus killed hundreds of thousands of prisoners in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The deteriorating quality of hygiene in camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen created conditions where diseases such as typhus flourished. Situations in the twenty-first century with potential for a typhus epidemic would include refugee camps during a major famine or natural disaster. In the periods between outbreaks, when human to human transmission occurs less often, the flying squirrel serves as a zoonotic reservoir for the Rickettsia prowazekii bacterium.

Henrique da Rocha Lima in 1916 then proved that the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii was the agent responsible for typhus; he named it after H. T. Ricketts and Stanislaus von Prowazek, two zoologists who had died from typhus while investigating epidemics. Once these crucial facts were recognized, Rudolf Weigl in 1930 was able to fashion a practical and effective vaccine production method by grinding up the insides of infected lice that had been drinking blood. It was, however, very dangerous to produce, and carried a high likelihood of infection to those who were working on it.

A safer mass-production-ready method using egg yolks was developed by Herald R. Cox in 1938. This vaccine was widely available and used extensively by 1943.

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I love detective stories. If something doesn't make sense, I want to know WHY!

Arlene