We condemn the lager camps from WWII. But you know haw many people died in the communist jails and camps?
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You forgot, history is written by the victors, so forget about the greatest butcher of the 20th Century, he was our ally afterall....
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www.google.com\nor wikipedia.\n\nI know for sure that the Soviet labor camps were less harsh, but more risky. The labor wasn't as disgusting as in the Nazi camp. Josef Stalin was very paranoid and would order anybody to be killed at the drop of a dime. So, if you messed up in the labor camps, there was no second chance. The labor wasn't as hard or gruesome, it was just like digging rocks and stuff, but if you didn't do it you would die. Anybody who spoke out or showed any sign of revolt or anything at all not compliant would just be shot. The end.\n\nI know that in the Nazi camps, the tasks were harder and longer, but you didn't die as easily. You were more likely to be tortured or starved instead of just killed and put out of your misery. The labor was the sort of digging graves and burying people, putting people into the crematorium, taking all of the valuables of dead people, and lots more to do with dead bodies. Most often the Jews and Gypsies, all those people in the Nazi camps, were forced to stand up for hours, or jog for hours, or go days without food. The only way they determined if you were to live or die was if you didn't pass their selections or if you were sick and there was a risk of spreading your disease or if you were caught doing something bad. Believe it or not, the Nazis didn't enjoy killing people unless they had a good reason. They would have much rather made the poor guy suffer or starve then just end his life and be done with it. \n\nI'm not as clear on Stalin's camps as in the Nazi camps but I hope that helps. The first link is Nazi, the second is Stalin's life (not as helpful as the other one) - enjoy.
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Holocaust myth?\n\nI find this offensive.  I assume he is implying the allies starved all those people and let them die just so they could create the photo op?  I did a quick search and saw some of his drivle, not worth repeating.
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My reply is that communism has killed more people in the last 100 years than religion has in the last 1000
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Auschwitz - facts\n\n\n In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children. \n\n\n\n Other groups of people who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsy families, homosexuals, people with disabilities and prisoners of conscience or religious faith (including several hundred Jehovah's Witnesses). \n\n\n\n More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of World War Two combined.\n\n\n\n About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\n Nazis at Auschwitz offered some non-Jewish female prisoners the option of 'light work'. As the women soon discovered, 'light work' meant prostitution. \n\n\n\n To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. \n\n\n\nThe train ramp was disguised to look like a regular railway station with signs, timetables and even a clock painted on the wall. \n\n\n\nA Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said "This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through". \n\n\n\n A unit in Auschwitz where valuables snatched from incoming prisoners were kept was known as Canada, because Canada was thought to be a land of untold riches. \n\n\n\n Auschwitz guards had their own athletics team. The camp was like a small town, with its own staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store. \n\n\n\n There were 170 female SS staff at Auschwitz, of whom the most infamous was Irma Grese, the 20-year-old daughter of a dairyman. \n\n\n\n Josef Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz often involved studies of twins. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other and carry out comparative autopsies. \n\n\n\n Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden. \n\n\n\n Some Jewish prisoners secretly wrote eye-witness accounts of the atrocities of the gas chambers and hid them in bottles or metal containers buried in the ground. A number of these accounts were discovered after the war. \n\n\n\n Of a total of about 7,000 staff at Auschwitz, only 750 were ever punished. Many went on to build good careers, including one man who became head of human resources for a large German company. \n\n\n\n There are approximately 500 survivors of Nazi death camps or ghettos living in Britain today.\n\n\nand try this web site,\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/12_december/03/auschwitz_timeline.shtml
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Well you cannot tar all Western prisons the same as some are hard labour others holiday camps. Most hardened criminals say they learnt the finer points of crime in jail.\nI myself believe it should be a deterent, not run in accordance with some minority group on prisioners rights, but by victims groups.
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You son of a b**ch!  I lost 17 members of my family in Buchenwald and I know many, many other Jewish people who also lost family members.  The Germans kept meticulous records and we know for a fact that the numbers are correct.  If you are a Muslim, then no explantion is needed for such hatred.  But if you are a Christian, then you are not following the tenets of your religion and you should be ostracized from the Christian community!
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Good post. Stalin was a terrible man.\n\nAnd let's not forget Chairman Mao.
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I know a truly amazing woman who survived a concentrarion camp when she was 16-17.  It happened without a doubt.  And the numbers don't matter  If it was 300,00 it is still appalling.  It was not just Jews either.  Gypsys, homosexuals, physically and mentally disabled, anyone the Nazis consider undesirable were also targeted.
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I'm sure you can tell by the previous posts that he "hurt" more than he ever could have hoped to help. His goals were to purify the German people (so to speak) and bring them out of a sorry state post WW1. But, if you call that help, I suppose mass murder and conquest would be is the way to go. Perhaps you should ask the question in an other way, I"m sure you couldn't have truly meant 'help' through containment camps.
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Yes Hitler was a horrible dictator in Germany . Who caused so much death and fear .
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There were two main places communists got involved in World War II.  The first, obviously, was Russia.  They were, ironically enough, our allies in the fight against the Nazis.  The second was the underground movements in occupied countries.  Since communists were banned by the Nazis, they already had a network of secret cells and communication systems.  They were the ones, after all, who invented the Molotov Cocktail and other guerrilla fighting techniques.  And there is no denying that some of them were very brave and took terrible risks in the underground fighting.  This also clearly gave them some key positions when the war was over, and they took maximum advantage of the fact.
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I would say that's an ignorant generalization. And you're being racist. You can't declare that all Germans and Russians are killing foreigners (which is an absurd thing to say in any case).... goodness.
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I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
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The exact number of people killed by the Nazi regime may never be known, but scholars, using a variety of methods of determining the death toll, have generally agreed upon common range of the number of victims. Recently declassified British and Soviet documents have indicated the total may be somewhat higher than previously believed[20]. However, the following estimates are considered to be highly reliable. The estimates:\n\n5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews\n1.8 –1.9 million non-Jewish Poles (includes all those killed in executions or those that died in prisons, labor, and concentration camps, as well as civilians killed in the 1939 invasion and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising) \n500,000–1.2 million Serbs killed by Croat Nazis \n200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti \n200,000–300,000 people with disabilities \n80,000–200,000 Freemasons [23] \n100,000 communists \n10,000–25,000 homosexual men \n2,000 Jehovah's Witnesses \nRaul Hilberg, in the third edition of his ground-breaking three-volume work, The Destruction of the European Jews, estimates that 5.1 million Jews died during the Holocaust. This figure includes "over 800,000" who died from "Ghettoization and general privation;" 1,400,000 who were killed in "Open-air shootings;" and "up to 2,900,000" who perished in camps. Hilberg estimates the death toll in Poland at "up to 3,000,000."[24] Hilberg's numbers are generally considered to be a conservative estimate, as they generally include only those deaths for which some records are available, avoiding statistical adjustment.[25] British historian Martin Gilbert used a similar approach in his Atlas of the Holocaust, but arrived at a number of 5.75 million Jewish victims, since he estimated higher numbers of Jews killed in Russia and other locations.[26]\n\n \nMap titled "Jewish Executions Carried Out by Einsatzgruppe A" from the December 1941 Jäger Report by the commander of a Nazi death squad. Marked "Secret Reich Matter," the map shows the number of Jews shot in the Baltic region, and reads at the bottom: "the estimated number of Jews still on hand is 128,000". Estonia is marked as judenfrei ("free of Jews").Lucy Davidowicz used pre-war census figures to estimate that 5.934 million Jews died. Using official census counts may cause an underestimate since many births and deaths were not recorded in small towns and villages. Another reason some consider her estimate too low is that many records were destroyed during the war. Her listing of deaths by country is available in the article about her book, The War Against the Jews.[27]\n\nOne of the most authoritative German scholars of the Holocaust, Prof. Wolfgang Benz of the Technical University of Berlin, cites between 5.3 and 6.2 million Jews killed in Dimension des Volksmords (1991), while Yisrael Gutman and Robert Rozett estimate between 5.59 and 5.86 million Jewish victims in their Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990).[28]\n\nThe following groups of people were also killed by the Nazi regime, but there is little evidence that the Nazis planned to systematically target them for genocide as was the case for the groups above.\n\n3.5–6 million other Slavic civilians \n2.5–4 million Soviet POWs \n1–1.5 million political dissidents \nAdditionally, the Nazis' allies, the Ustaša regime in Croatia conducted its own campaign of mass extermination against the Serbs in the areas which it controlled, resulting in the deaths of at least 330,000–390,000 Serbs.\n\nmore info:
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Read the book titled The Stark Decency.  It's about a German POW camp.  US guards treated the prisoners as human beings.  They even became friends on occasion.  \n\nThe military policy was to treat Germans well to induce them to treat our prisoners well.  (nothing is perfect, but it's a start and a sound plan)\n\nBy the time the war ended, German prisoners were mourning the death of FDR way more deeply than the death of Adolph.\n\nFurther, everything I've read on interogation techniques points to treating prisoners better than they're treated back home.  If you offer someone a better deal than they have now... they take it and they cooperate.\n\nI don't give a hoot about other people's cultures.  If someone wants to eat with chopsticks, fine.  If someone wants to wear a towel on their head, fine.  If someone wants to bow namastay to you every two seconds, fine.  But human decency is human decency in any language and the only way to get it is to give it.\n\nYou can list all the reasons why someone should be treated poorly, and you would be 100% right.  The irony is that the minute you start treating others poorly, there is only one direction to go, and that's down.
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I personally worked with a woman who lost her entire family. They were separated and taken to the Belsen camp. Once the Germans could sqezze nothing more out of them, they got on the train for Auchswitz, the main gas murdering site and crematorium. Alot of poor, thin people were shot and thrown into pits full of other corpses, too, besides the gassing. My dear friend Isabella had the tattoo marking her "property of Belsen camp". No one else came out alive. And no, they weren't just taking the Jewish. But hitler was string on meth and he was a megalomaniac. The two don't mix.