Chancellor Merkel to visit Dachau

Discussion in 'The Holocaust' started by dave500, Aug 18, 2013.

  1. Harry Ree

    Harry Ree Very Senior Member

    As regards the Allies,whenever they overran a concentration camp,the local Nazi civilian leadership and inhabitants were rounded up and forced to do a conducted tour of the camp to shock them into seeing what atrocities had been carried out in their name.

    There was also cases, where in addition to those captured camp security personnel,local Nazi civilian leadership and civilians were pressed into the handling of the dead.

    My experience of German youth is that they are pacifistic....talking to one who had done his 9 months NS.He related to me and joked about it, that his unit had a hangar,a couple of hundred metres long containing four vehicles...said to me German youth would not readily respond to a call for arms.Big fan of Schalke 04.

    Knew of another whose Grandfather had fought Alsace in the Great War...had been appointed by Adolf via an impressive certificate as a Czechoslovakia border guard in 1935....the family had an interesting scrapbook of his Grandfather's service.His mother told me that her son was just not interested in his Grandfather's military service.

    The experience of the Hitler regime...elected democratically in the end...introduced his Enabling Act which paved the way for change without consultation or debate...eliminated all opposition and in the name of "protective custody",incarcerated all dissenters and those in accordance with his ideology.
     

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