On Apr 30, 9:46=A0am, The UnaPoet <bardic26...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> =A0 Photo of the British guard =A0post 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 =A0Dust 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 cumbersome, 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/afterm...
>
> Typhus epidemic at Dachau
>
> Prisoner reads prayers to two survivors in the infirmary barracks
>
> http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/...
>
> 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/...
>
> American doctors care for sick prisoners in the Dachau typhus ward
>
> http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/...
>
> Liberated Russian prisoner is deloused with DDT
>
> http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauPhotos/OldPhotos/...
>
> 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.
> --------------------------
>
> 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,
=ABfami=
ne
> 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
Read My Lips: Explain the presence of the archives at Bad Arolsen.
The archives document the Nazis deliberate abduction of innocent
Europeans and their imprisonment. You want to soften this crime by
telling us that typhus killed the inmates at concentration camps. And
you too have "shot yourself in the foot" by quoting the CBS "60
Minutes" segment (the CAPS are mine):
"The Nazis couldn=92t have disease spreading among SLAVE LABORERS."
Typhus was indeed rampant at the camps, but typhus does not kill by
emaciating its victims to skin and bones.
See:
http://www.cbwinfo.com/Biological/Pathogens/RP.html
"Epidemic typhus is contracted by exposure to contaminated feces or
larvae. It has an incubation period of 6-15 days develops rapidly. It
is characterized by severe headaches, chills, a sustained high fever
(38.8-40=B0C or 102-104=B0F in adults, up to 41.1=B0 C or 106=B0 in
children=
)
that can last for two weeks, general pain, and a skin rash. The rash,
which appears as irregular pink macular patches can become extensive
or even confluent, usually appears about five days after the fever
begins. The disease can affect both the circulatory and neurological
systems. Neurological effects include spasticity, agitation, stu****
and coma. Circulatory problems include tachycardia (slow heart rate),
low blood pressure, high levels of blood nitrogen, thrombosis and
cutaneous gangrene. "
While you are blathering more nonsense about the causes of death in
the camps, tell us then why Nazi SS members admitted the gassing of
inmates. Why hundreds, or thousands of Allied soldiers saw the gas
chambers and the crematoria. Why did Eisenhower say this about the
camps:
"I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty
to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these
things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption
that "the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda." Some
members of the visiting party were unable to go through the ordeal. I
not only did so but as soon as I returned to Patton's headquarters
that evening I sent communications to both Wa****ngton and London,
urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group
of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national
legislatures. I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed
before the American and British publics in a fa****on that would leave
no room for cynical doubt."
What is your response, Captain Nutsack?
RO
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