The Holocaust just got more shocking - NY Times

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By ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: March 1, 2013

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

What they have found so far has shocked even scho​lars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.

The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.

“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.

“We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/su...aw0svfJWxthXZQ

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wow! interesting and sad article.

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wow! interesting and sad article.

I know! A good and emotional read.

[87sluggo]

My dad was born in Berlin in 1928. In 1935, because my grandparents owned a general store which was worth something, they were "allowed" to "emigrate" to Belgium with twelve hours notice, with whatever they could carry. They made their way to Scotland where they had relatives, but after about six months their relatives turned them in (Scotland wasn't very jew-friendly at the time either) Luckily the British Govt gave them passes to Palestine, where they spent the war years. Not one of my dad's uncles or aunts or cousins survived the war.

That all said, I don't believe that a 12-person work detail at someone's house constitutes a "forced labor camp" and I don't think the 42,500 number is REALLLLYYYY accurate. THAT said, one forced labor camp was one too many.

Elwood: Illinois Nazis.
Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.