65 years ago today

[breadcatcher101]

If you have "Google Earth" you can get a good look at the camp the way it looks today. You can easily see where the spur track ran into the camp from the mainline. The track has been removed it appears but there is a tree line there that curves right into the mainline.

Just enter the location: 50 02 09 N 19 10 42 E

[kranz]

There is a great BBC series called The Nazis and the Final Solution(or sth like that)It has sth like 6 parts, it is mostly based on Ian Kershaw's book. It's a must see imo. From that series I learned that even the British Jews from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney Islands were taken to the camps.

Originally Posted by kranz

There is a great BBC series called The Nazis and the Final Solution(or sth like that)It has sth like 6 parts, it is mostly based on Ian Kershaw's book. It's a must see imo. From that series I learned that even the British Jews from Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney Islands were taken to the camps.

I've seen that series, it's good.

There was also a boat, don't remember the name of it, that sailed from somewhere in occupied Europe and was full of Jewish people trying to escape persecution. The boat was denied entry into the US, Canada or South America possibly due to antisemitism of the times.

Eventually it made it's way back towards Europe and had a stop in Ireland. Everyone who could got out there but all were not allowed to depart to Ireland and ended up in Nazi hands with the majority dying.

[Jimbuna]

Auschwitz was used by Stalin as a POW camp run by the NKVD after the camp and Poland were liberated.

[kranz]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Auschwitz was used by Stalin as a POW camp run by the NKVD after the camp and Poland were liberated.

yeah, and this is the untold part of the camp history....

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kranz

yeah, and this is the untold part of the camp history....

Precisely.

Heaven only knows how many more died during its use by the Russians.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Auschwitz was used by Stalin as a POW camp run by the NKVD after the camp and Poland were liberated.

Well it was up to the Soviets to liberate Auschwitz since the Brits wouldn't even bomb the rail roads although they knew perfectly well what was going on there.

[antikristuseke]

Because there were no militarily important targets to bomb in Germany...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Well it was up to the Soviets to liberate Auschwitz since the Brits wouldn't even bomb the rail roads although they knew perfectly well what was going on there.

By this time Stalin had already given the US and Britain the impression he wouldn't welcome advances from them as far as Berlin and was intent on keeping everything Russia occupied to Russia.

I've no evidence but I should imagine the Allies didn't feel as great a need to help the Russin advances any easier...far better to use the airpower to make their own troops task as easy as possible.