On Apr 30, 10:23 am, ron...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> I and others would like to see you "shoot yourself in the foot" as you
> try to explain away the recently opened-to-the-public Nazi archives at
> Bad Arolson, Germany:
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/14/60minutes/main2267927.shtml
>
Pelley and the 60 Minutes crew were amazed to see the Nazis kept
records of head lice.
"You can see the names and numbers of each prisoner, and the amount of
lice that were found," Jost says.
The Nazis couldn=92t have disease spreading among slave laborers. "You
can see he was a perfectionist. He even put down the size of the lice.
Large, small or medium-sized lice," Jost comments about the Nazi lice
inspector.
Paul Shapiro helped pry open the archive. He=92s Director of Holocaust
Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Wa****ngton D.C.
"I=92m curious. Why did the Nazis keep all these records? If they were
gonna murder these people anyway, why keep the paperwork?" Pelley
asks.
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They inspected for head lice because they were trying to control the
Typhus
epidemics that killed most of the holocaust victims. Typhus is spread
by head lice, that's why many inmates had their heads shaved, and that
was the purpose
of the Zyklon B de-lousing chambers, clothing and bedding were placed
into
the gas chambers to kill the lice.
Photo of the British guard post at the entrance to the liberated,
yet still contained Bergen-Belsen camp. 15,000 inmates died there
after
the camp was liberated.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/OldPhotos/TyphusSign.jpg
"5 MPH Dust spreads TYPHUS"
Sign put up by the British after Bergen-Belsen was liberated
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to
the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian unit, on April
15, 1945 by Reichsf=FChrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who was in
charge of all the camps. Bergen-Belsen was in the middle of the war
zone where British and German troops were fighting in the last days of
World War II and there was a danger that the typhus epidemic in the
camp would spread to the troops on both sides.
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VV/Views/Exhibit/narrative/typhus.html
--U.S. Typhus Commission, and RF Typhus Team
In 1942, as the Allied armies prepared to push into Europe from the
Mediterranean the following year, several groups of medical officers
and civilian advisors worked on ways to control or eliminate the
typhus fever that had already emerged in some parts of eastern Europe
and North Africa. Louse-borne typhus fever was a familiar by-product
of wartime troop and refugee movements, crowding in camps and prisons,
undernourishment, and lack of bathing and laundry facilities. Although
the causative microbe and its vector had been discovered, efficient
methods of preventing typhus fever had not. Methods of delousing were
still ***bersome, and would not prevent reinfestation. Fred Soper was
assigned to the U.S.A. Typhus Commission (USATC) to help develop an
efficient, direct chemical attack on the body louse, and thus contain
or prevent epidemic typhus.
Photo, "Danger of typhus carried by lice"
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/VV/B/B/L/L/_/vvbbll_.jpg
NOTE: This image was cropped from a Life magazine article titled
"Typhus in Naples."
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauLiberation/aftermath01.h=
tml
Typhus epidemic at Dachau
Prisoner reads prayers to two survivors in the infirmary barracks
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/Survivo=
rsPraying.jpg
After the Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945,
the former inmates had to be kept inside the prison enclosure for a
few more weeks until all danger of spreading the typhus epidemic in
the camp had passed. Just before the Americans arrived, up to 400
prisoners had been dying each day in the typhus epidemic which was out
of control, according to the testimony of the Chief Doctor of the camp
at the American Military Tribunal held at Dachau in November 1945.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/DachauT=
yphusWard.jpg
American doctors care for sick prisoners in the Dachau typhus ward
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/DachauD=
DT.jpg
Liberated Russian prisoner is deloused with DDT
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/TyphusT=
ests.jpg
Before release, inmates had to undergo typhus tests by US Army
On 2 May 1945, the 116th Evacuation Hospital arrived at Dachau and set
up operations. According to a re****t made on 20 May 1945, there were
140 prisoners dying each day in the camp; the principle causes of
death were starvation, tuberculosis, typhus and dysentery. There were
4,000 prisoners in the prison hospital and an unknown number of sick
prisoners in the barracks who were receiving no medical attention.
There were 18 one-story wooden SS barrack buildings in the Dachau army
garrison which were converted into hospital wards. The medical
personnel were housed in the SS administration building. A Typhus
Commission arrived and began vaccinating all medical personnel and the
prisoners. There was a daily dusting of DDT to kill the lice which
spreads typhus.
On 3 May 1945, the sick prisoners were brought to the hospital wards.
They were bathed, dusted with DDT powder and given clean pajamas to
wear; their old prison clothes were burned.
By July 1945, the typhus epidemic in the Dachau concentration camp had
been brought under control by the US Army doctors, and all the
prisoners had either been released or moved to a Displaced Persons
camp at Landsberg. The photograph immediately above shows former
inmates being tested for typhus before being allowed to leave.
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One of the peculiarities of typhus is the way in which it tends to
cause serious epidemics, flaring up suddenly and coinciding with the
previous occurrence of some serious public calamity. Populations in
the throes of war or famine fell victim to the disease, which caused
numerous deaths, sometimes as many as hundreds of thousands. Thus
originated certain expressive synonyms, such as =ABcamp typhus=BB,
=ABfamine=
typhus=BB, =ABjail typhus=BB by which the disease has sometimes been
known.
As one author so truly says, the history of typhus is the history of
human misfortune.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1928/press.html
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