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- Subject: LEST WE FORGET: 1.5 Million Gassed: Maidanek
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.120104.17763@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 12:01:04 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.revisionism
- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Maidanek
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- "MAIDANEK. Extermination camp located in German-occupied Poland about 2
- miles from Lublin. It was regarded as in the same class as Belzec and
- Sobibor. Like Belzec, Maidanek was originally a labor camp but was
- transformed into a death camp ... Unlike Belzec, it had some
- industrial activity. Non-Jewish prisoners were admitted. At first
- death was induced by carbon monoxide asphyxiation, but later
- hydrocyanic, or prussic, acid fumes were used following successful
- tests at Belzec. It is estimated that 1.5 million inmates were gassed
- at Maidanek. After Russian troops discovered the camp on July 23,
- 1944, Konstatin Simonov, a Soviet writer, wrote a full account of the
- death camp for Pravda. In a special issue the London Illustrated News
- published photographs of the gas chambers and ovens at Maidanek."
-
- Taken from the ...----------------------------------------------------
- Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, by Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Professor of
- History, The City College and The City University of New York. Paragon
- House, New York, 1989. ISBN 1-55778-144-3
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ... in response to a question about the correct spelling for
- Majdanek, I have received the following comments from UseNetters:
-
- "Majdanek is a suburb of Lublin (located to the south of the city center)
- and is spelled with 'j'. 'Maidanek' must be a distortion that somehow
- crept into books.
-
- Note that although the vast majority of Majdanek's victims were Jews,
- they were not the only ones."
-
- ...and another:
-
- "Maidanek, spelled variously depending on English-Polish transliteration, is a
- regular extermination camp within the city limits of Lublin --- the city
- streetcars go there. I've visited the place, and in some ways it's at least as
- gruesome as Auschwitz... there is a huge cocnrete half shell entirely filled
- with the ashes and bone remains of the victims, and whole barracks full of
- their belongings."
-
- .. thank you.
-
- Followups to alt.revisionism
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- --
- "I boiled the soap out of the bodies of women and men. The process of
- boiling alone took several days -- from 3 to 7. During two manufacturing
- processes, in which I directly participated, more than 25 kilograms of soap
- were produced." (Mazur, from "Hitler's Death Camps")
-