A Fiend Unleashed.. Addendum

My previous blog entry under the title shown: "A Fiend Unleashed".. talked about Hitler and his attempt to build "the master race" by killing those he thought were "inferior"..

It dawned on me that some younger readers might not have taken my observations seriously.. "surely you exagerate!"  Perhaps additional information is needed to drive the point in.. that Hitler and also his right-hand men were indeed "fiends", and not worthy to be called civilized human beings.

The following is extracted from a book published by a good friend of mine from the Social Security Administration.  He served as a Military Policeman in Europe during World War II, while he was just a teen-ager.  His first-hand war observations during 1944 and 1945 are published in a book titled: My Private Military Odyssey by Harry J. Wade, and I would recommend it to you highly.

"We arrived at Dachau in August 1945.   The camp had already been liberated and was being used as a PW (Prisoner of War) camp...The building containing the crematorium still contained the  bones of some of the recently cremated people...In the basement there were piles of bones and a bone-grinding machine.  There were also clay pots into which the powdered bones were placed, and sometimes a bar of soup made from the human fat was placed on top of the clay pots...

There were so-called "showers" to which many were led to take showers.  Instead, they were gassed to death... We were told that, at times, so many people were crowded into the "showers" that the bodies were still standing after the people had died from inhaling the gas...

Others told of experiments on internees at the Dachau camp hospital.  One such experiment involved immersing a person in very hot water and then quickly dunking them in ice cold water to monitor body temperature changes.  Still others told of lampshades made from human skin..."

The German neighbors of the Dachau camp, as did the neighbors of the Auschwitz Camp.. denied that they knew what was going on there.  They claimed that they thought the disgusting smells that issued from the smokestacks was caused by the burning of garbage.

What can be worse than man's inhumanity to man?!
......................................................................................................