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...fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into the sky. None of the watching officials and reporters said a word, but the memory of the evil holocausts of Auschwitz was inevitable...
World War II Nazi persecution. One is the Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe, who was shipped to a concentration camp in 1939. There one day, Father Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a married man who had been scheduled for punishment. The penalty: death by starvation in Auschwitz' notorious hunger bunker...
Klausner explored the violent hatred of Jews of one man, Rudolf Hess, commandant of the Auschwitz death camp. Seeing Jews who had lost their identities, whose sole aim in life was to avoid the gas chamber, he could hardly avoid becoming totally oblivious to their feelings...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...
...negotiations with the Nazis through neutral channels to get the Jews out of Europe. Eden reportedly answered that the "enemy is playing a devilish game," adding vaguely that "moreover, we have to carry America and Russia along with us." In July 1944, Weizmann urged that, as a desperate move. Auschwitz should be bombed in the hope of knocking the gas ovens out of commission. The plea was rejected because of "very great technical difficulties." Nevertheless, during that same month. Flying Fortresses based in Italy blasted a synthetic oil and rubber plant at Auschwitz...