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Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes
When I left Watchmaker's school my first job was working for a guy who had been in a camp,had the tattoo on his arm.
After I knew him well I asked him about his experiences.
His version{to which the usual disclaimers apply}was that he recalled no mass slaughter or systematic extermination,all were used for munitions and war material assembly.
Toward the end of the war the slender food resources had to be prioritised for the troops in the field and the civilian population,hence the pictures of rail-thin,corpse-like men and women.
According to him dysentery and starvation were the real culprits,believe what you will,but this has been repeated by other camp survivors I have been priviledged to know.
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I don't doubt that that is what he saw and was aware of. I can't imagine the Nazis broadcasting news of what they were doing to anyone in Germany, much less anywhere else. I can only imagine their master plan was to get as much use out of Jews as they could until they could ship them to the death camps.
The movie
Europa, Europa, German language film, tells a true tale about a young Jewish man who through a series of accidents finds himself living among Germans who were unaware that he was Jewish. He hadn't the barest clue of the full scale of the death camps but he knew he would be in some kind of danger were he discovered.