| |
N0KFQ > TODAY 10.10.14 18:01l 51 Lines 2238 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 37836_N0KFQ
Read: GUEST
Subj: RE: Today in History - Oct 10
Path: IW8PGT<IZ3LSV<IK6ZDE<I0OJJ<VE3UIL<N9PMO<GB7LDI<N0KFQ
Sent: 141010/1555Z 37836@N0KFQ.#SWMO.MO.USA.NA BPQK1.4.60
Oct 10, 1944:
Eight hundred children are gassed to death at Auschwitz
On this day in 1944, 800 Gypsy children, including more than a
hundred boys between 9 and 14 years old are systematically
murdered.
Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III.
There were also 40 smaller "satellite" camps. It was at Auschwitz
II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created
a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison
barracks; four "bathhouses," in which prisoners were gassed;
corpse cellars; and cremating ovens. Thousands of prisoners were
also used as fodder for medical experiments, overseen and
performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele ("the Angel of
Death").
A mini-revolt took place on October 7, 1944. As several hundred
Jewish prisoners were being forced to carry corpses from the gas
chambers to the furnace to dispose of the bodies, they blew up
one of the gas chambers and set fire to another, using explosives
smuggled to them from Jewish women who worked in a nearby
armaments factory. Of the roughly 450 prisoners involved in the
sabotage, about 250 managed to escape the camp during the ensuing
chaos. They were all found and shot. Those co-conspirators who
never made it out of the camp were also executed, as were five
women from the armaments factory-but not before being tortured
for detailed information on the smuggling operation. None of the
women talked.
Gypsies, too, had been singled out for brutal treatment by
Hitler's regime early on. Deemed "carriers of disease" and
"unreliable elements who cannot be put to useful work," they were
marked for extermination along with the Jews of Europe from the
earliest years of the war. Approximately 1.5 million Gypsies were
murdered by the Nazis. In 1950, as Gypsies attempted to gain
compensation for their suffering, as were other victims of the
Holocaust, the German government denied them anything, saying,
"Gypsies have been persecuted under the Nazis not for any racial
reason but because of an asocial and criminal record." They were
stigmatized even in light of the atrocities committed against
them.
73, K.O. n0kfq
N0KFQ @ N0KFQ.#SWMO.MO.USA.NA
E-mail: kohiggs@gmail.com
Using Outpost Ver 2.8.0 c42
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
