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Originally Posted by CCIP
but I was just fixated on the mass graves there - a patch of ground that's barely a few football fields in size. It just blew my mind that 500,000 people were buried there, most of them dead by cold and starvation, and that was but a tiny fraction of those killed in that war. Still gives me chills when I think of the moment when, somehow, the reality of that figure dawned on me while standing right among the rows of flat, nondescript ground where hundreds of thousands rested.
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Yes, I remember watching a documentry few years ago, and one vetran form the ss das reich or leibstandarte was telling of how so many bodies piled up in front of them, in wave after wave attack of (woman regiments) whilst charging his lines. He shed no tear as some do in these progs, but did mention that he and his men were horrified at the site of all these woman falling before the machine guns, when the machine guns had stopped and still smoking he said some of the men were crying but it was them or us!!