International Holocaust Memorial Day

Today in 1945, the Soviet Army (Red Army) closed in on eastern Poland and liberated the death camp Auschwitz Birkenau. Today is the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration/extermination camp.

Auschwitz was the largest of any concentration camp run by the Nazi's. Over 1 million people were killed there in gas chambers, by shootings, hangings, starvation, disease, exhaustion, medical experiments. Countless others were tortured. This was the largest place for the extermination of Jews. However, there were others there, such as Poles, Soviet POW's, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, homosexuals, etc.

There was murder in gas chambers, punishments, executions in the yard, hangings, camp hospitals, and medical experiments.

The 1 million is a conservative estimate. All of the people killed in gas chambers were not registered in the camp, and there are no records of transports. The Nazi's were articulate record keepers, but they burned them all when they realized they were on the verge of being discovered.

How many of the Nazi's were like us? When I say like us, I mean how many of them got off on cute dead guys?

Certainly, there were the guys that played with the dead because they believed that Jews were a lesser species in the manner we think of rabbits or cows. The victims who were usually young, athletic and of good health were often killed in a manner to best preserve their corpses. Think, embalming while still alive, flash freezing, and worse. Arsenic was found to have excellent preservative properties because it kills all bacteria. Why wait till their dead? The Nazis would give the victims injections in an attempt to build up as much of it as possible in their bodies before they died. That way, the brains were better preserved. Slow arsenic poisoning would cause unspeakable agony.

The cadavers that were created by preserving the highest quality victims (young and athletic) were distributed to medical schools and laboratories like frogs for dissection. They also had a program to provide living, prime quality Jews for experimentation. These 'specimens' were made available at certain facilities were scientists could carry out their experiments.

If you wanted a hot dead guy or a hot living guy to kill, you only had present your proposal as some kind of experiment during the Nazi reign. Of course, if you were outed, you could become the victim. The Nazi dissected homosexual men to try and determine what made them gay.

There is an interesting book by Erich Fromm "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness". In a special chapter you can read about the nekrophilia of many nazis (Hitler, Himmler) - and which characteristics are related to a nekrophil character: loving bad smell, rotten things or exrements - or on the other hand being fond of technics, technical progress and inanimate things ... Hitler for example was vegetarian - it was only the inner defence of profound nekrophil wishes ... Worth to read!