Friday, April 25, 2008
Presentations
The presentations on the concentration camps were very interesting because of the personal stories they told about the prisoners. I always seem to learn something new when I hear about the Nazi’s concentration camps, mainly the horrible methods that SS members used to kill defenseless individuals. I always thought that the length of the workday between the two camps would have been the same, because I always figured that the Nazi regime managed all the camps from a central location. However, it appears that may not have been the case and maybe the camp Commandant’s had a lot of leeway in running the camps, which was seen in the way one made the Jews work in the factories during bombing raid and one didn’t. Finally, I guess I will never understand how the German people did not have ANY clue about what was taking place in the woods next to their town. I know that the Nazi’s censored a lot of information and spun a web of lies but the disappearing of whole communities is hard to hide.
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the presentations on the nazi camps are always eye opening, but in the first presentation were Patton made a nearby city come and visit the camp to see what was happening, I feel this is one of those situations that they already new about what was going on. For instance, officers of the SS would often go into nearby cities for entertainment and I am sure that they still spoke about what was going on in the camps. Therefore when the fact that two of the viewers of such a horrific event started laughing on the way back home from their tour that patton gave them, it seem not necessary out of the context because they had to know what was going on and possibly like in many of the surrounding cities of such camps heard the screams from the crematories or even smelt the burning flesh, something that is already very disturbing in its own right. Also on the first presentation it is interesting to hear that one of the prisoner got a hold of a radio to contact the USA and later the USA bombed the site when they were clear of the area, which clears up a couple questions for me on why the USA did not bomb Auschuwitz.
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