Click2History - The Holocaust: Evidence of Intent - Chapter 7

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>THE HOLOCAUST</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 7 - PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE</p> <p><font size="3">CAUTION: LINKS IN THIS CHAPTER WILL TAKE YOU<br> TO EXTREMELY GRAPHIC SOURCE MATERIAL</p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">One of numerous troubling issues surrounding the Holocaust is: How could people - including those who professed to be Christians - have been so cruel to other human beings? Some said, “We were just following orders.” Others, like those tried at Nuremberg, never bothered to explain.</p> <ul> <li>SS troops mercilessly <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1253a.gif" target="_blank"><b>burned alive</b></a> about 150 prisoners on April 16, 1945 in Gardelegen, Germany.</li><br><br> <li>Of 1100 prisoners at <a href="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/83828.htm" target="_blank"><b>Gardelegen</b></a>, only 12 managed to escape as SS troops <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1257a.gif" target="_blank"><b>shot</b></a> people and set buildings on fire. April 16, 1945.</li><br><br> <li>Starving people, transported in 50 freight cars to <a href="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/DAC2S.htm" target="_blank"><b>Dachau</b></a> from another camp, died <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1256a.gif" target="_blank"><b>en route</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Death camp prisoners were forced to strip before they were killed. A <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1267a.gif" target="_blank"><b>pile of clothing</b></a> at <a href="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/DAC1S.htm" target="_blank"><b>Dachau</b></a> is all that remains of some Nazi victims.</li><br><br> <li>At <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/23/5/23-0475a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Buchenwald</b></a>, a concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, SS troops celebrated Christmas even as they killed and tortured human beings.</li><br><br> <li>When General Patton’s 3rd U.S. Army liberated Buchenwald, his troops found human bones in the <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1260a.gif" target="_blank"><b>crematoria</b></a>. April 14, 1945.</li><br><br> <li>They also found a <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/13/28-1258a.gif" target="_blank"><b>truck load</b></a> of prisoner bodies, about to be burned.</li><br><br> <li>At <a href="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/BUCHS.HTM" target="_blank"><b>Buchenwald</b></a>, prisoners were <a href="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery2/78805.htm" target="_blank"><b>burned</b></a> in <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/23/5/23-0476a.gif" target="_blank"><b>ovens</b></a>, dead or alive.</li></ul> <p>Some of the concentration camps were located near German towns and villages. Did people who lived nearby know what their government was doing to innocent civilians? Conquering armies made sure they found out.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="holocaust_evidence_ch6.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="holocaust_evidence_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="holocaust_evidence_ch8.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>