auschwitz

thinkingTo go or not to go.    one ...or at least.  I felt aN obligation it was part of the trip.  the thing included inour.  fare.  wewoke to heavy rain and the gloomy day setthe tone.  we all ended up going..Auschwitz. 1.  and 2

the first one already existed, and was a prison already.  made of sturdy. bricks it stillstands today.  A. monumnt to Evil and unimaginable cruelty.  they then upped the Final Solution. and Hess was commandeered into finding another spot and about  three miles away developed Auschwitchz 2 or  better known as Birkenau.  with more ovens and  near the RR where without a moment to think they separated  several thousand people an hour into , 1,into the gas chambers. or 2. do a useful job until "into the gas chambers"

this terrible place held 100000 people at any one time

Apparently at one time Himmler said that this history will never be written. down

And testimony to the Guilt. and the knowledge of the Evil,as the Soviets were coming (it was the So iets Soviets who liberated Auschwichtz)

the camp guards blew up the ovens, and destroyed documents, and force. marched 7500. inmates to a place where they could be entrained. etc. many of these died enroute and along this route there are  memorials.  they left thousands behind in such bad conditions they assumed they would die

The Soviets and their red cross nursed people on the spot for months and months,    when another group from the red cross came. inMay.  ( the liberation was mid January).   they found people weighing 2/3 rds less than normal weight ...

The guards knew that retribution. would come

  Hess.  ran and.  hid on a far, in Bavaria, but eventually his iwife revealed where he was hiding ,and he brought to trial and hamged in Aushchwitch, Mengele came  from a rich family escaped to S America lived there until q1979

Many war criminals, responsible for atrocities  were imprisoned for short periods of time 

people were told thar they were being moved tombegina new life   resettled so they brought mundane things with them like simple pots and pans

political prisoners were severely tortured for the most small acts, lik leaving a small square of bread formthose condemned to starve

i could not talkemphotos of the box cars of hair, hichnwas made into thoinngs of coats.  the millions of shoes which were five or sold t,fhe germanpeopl whomwere suffering fromthe cost of the war