Word: auschwitzes
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...supplied by the U.S. or Britain. Eichmann promised that the trucks would be used only against the Russians. Dumfounded. Brand asked who would believe in such a fantastic offer. Replied Eichmann pompously: "A German officer keeps his word." Furthermore. Eichmann promised to release 100,000 Jews and destroy the Auschwitz gas ovens as soon as the first 1,000 trucks were delivered...
...screaming man from the court, Baron von Freudiger brushed tears from his eyes. The interruption was a grim reminder of the bitterness that still ravages the Hungarian Jews who escaped Nazi annihilation. Some survivors insist that rich Jews bought their freedom by shipping poor Jews to the ovens of Auschwitz. One of the baron's colleagues. Dr. Rudolf Kastner, was denounced by an Israeli court in 1955 for his dealings with the Nazis. Later, Kastner was murdered on his doorstep by vengeful Jews...
...court pressed Baron von Freudiger to explain why he had not warned Jews in rural Hungary of scheduled deportations and the fate that awaited them. "By the time we realized what Auschwitz was, 300,000 people from Hungary had already gone," replied the baron. "What could we have done? There are people here who say they were not told to escape, but 50% of the people who tried to escape were captured and killed. And others say, 'Why did you tell them to escape?'" Snapped a judge: "I don't think that is an answer...
...returned, to Auschwitz, to Treblinka, when "the operation was in full swing. I was not near enough to see what was going on but, nevertheless, I saw the bridges, and on the bridges, I saw a file of naked Jews entering a big hall to be gassed...
...aerial photograph of Auschwitz extermination camp that takes the breath away with its immensity: mile on mile of barracks, a metropolis of death...