Yea, i recall a doco series online that included Mainstream new paper clippings of the time gleefully extolling estimates of the huge losses of life in the first months of the camps - something like 100 000 a month (or a 2-3 month period) and reported that 'hopefully' it could be as high as 1 million in the first year or so if the numbers kept up. Basically, a deliberated willful policy of - lack of food - Eisenhower memos informing camp comanders to deny red cross food parcels, and a policy oif shoot on sight anyone approaching the wire attempting to (among other things) distribute food - lack of access to clean water/ despite being adjacent/ accessible to the Rhine - lack of adequate medical supplies/ treatment, substandard and or complete lack of shelter - being exposed to the elements and into the cold wet season - with huge open sewage pits inside the camp itself - rampant disease/ cholera etc.
Some of the personal testimonies of survivors make absolute dreadful chilling reading.
The numbers were purposely obfuscated because names etc of all the dead were never taken and those dying were simply disposed off. Thus a purposeful lack of accurate record keeping.
dass 1 points 9 months ago
Yea, i recall a doco series online that included Mainstream new paper clippings of the time gleefully extolling estimates of the huge losses of life in the first months of the camps - something like 100 000 a month (or a 2-3 month period) and reported that 'hopefully' it could be as high as 1 million in the first year or so if the numbers kept up.
Basically, a deliberated willful policy of - lack of food - Eisenhower memos informing camp comanders to deny red cross food parcels, and a policy oif shoot on sight anyone approaching the wire attempting to (among other things) distribute food - lack of access to clean water/ despite being adjacent/ accessible to the Rhine - lack of adequate medical supplies/ treatment, substandard and or complete lack of shelter - being exposed to the elements and into the cold wet season - with huge open sewage pits inside the camp itself - rampant disease/ cholera etc.
Some of the personal testimonies of survivors make absolute dreadful chilling reading.
The numbers were purposely obfuscated because names etc of all the dead were never taken and those dying were simply disposed off. Thus a purposeful lack of accurate record keeping.