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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "They all died at Auschwitz..."
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.120102.16867@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 12:01:02 GMT
- Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
- Followup-To: alt.revisionism
- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Auschwitz,Barbie,Drancy,Gur,France
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- After Hitler's rise to power, many German Jews left Germany for the safety
- of France, and obtained citizenship there. After the fall of France, the
- Nazis cancelled the French citizenship; Vichy complied with the order. From
- that point, the Jews of France were at the mercy of the Nazis, and the
- result was predictable:
-
- "Detention camps for French Jews were quickly set up, the largest in
- Drancy, near Paris. From there 98,000 people were deported to Auschwitz, of
- whom only 3,000 lived to be liberated at the end of the war. These were
- mainly saved because of insufficient transportation facilities. The sports
- stadium, Velodrome d'Hiver, was pressed into service for a week to hold
- 9,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, before they were sent on to the gas
- chambers of Auschwitz. Thirty adults, but no childreen, survived. Another
- detention camp bore the odd name of Gur ... The cruelest actions were the
- raiding of children's homes. The Gestapo commander at Lyon took pride in
- cabling his superiors in Germany in April 1944: `Early this morning the
- children's home at Aisier-Anne was emptied. A total number of 41 children,
- aged 3-13 was siezed.' They all died at Auschwitz.<18> All told, about
- 80,000 French Jews perished there.*"
-
- * Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon", who escaped to Bolivia
- after the war, was extradited to France in March 1983 to stand trial there.
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St.
- Martin's/Marek, 1983.
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-
- For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over
- 1100 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you
- by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.
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- "The heavy smoke from the crematory building is said to be visible over
- Hadamar every day... At full capacity [they] smoked day and night. Locks of
- hair went up through the chimneys and landed in the street." [From Nazi
- documents critical of "mistakes" made at medical killing centres]
-