Monday, March 26, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1942, the first trains with freight cars full of Jews, soon to be processed into the Endlosing, arrived at the Auschwitz and Birkenau Camps in Poland. This was the beginning of an industrial scale political (or ethnic) murder called the "Eichmann transport" after the Nazi official who organized it, Adolf Eichmann.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:28 AM 
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The first trains that arrived at Auschwitz were full of regular polish citizans, elite of polish society, political and religious leaders, and polish officers from the opposition. Please let's not forget, and I think a lot of people do forget, that not only Jews died in concentration camps. For the record 200 thousand Jews, 140 thousand Poles, 20 thousand Gypsies and about 10 thousand prisoners of war from other european countries were exterminated in Auschwitz.
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: 5:00 PM
Although there's no doubt the Jews got the worst of it, with the Gypsies a distant second, you are right it wasn't just them. Thanks for the thoughtful and well stated comment.
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