Nazi Ghettos and Camps - A Horrifying Statistic

by Robert Wilkinson

The Holocaust deniers now have a huge problem. Researchers have discovered that there weren’t 7000 Nazi death, slave labor, and other camps. There were 42,500. And they’re finding more.

From the NYT courtesy of NBC, we find a story titled More Nazi-era camps, ghettos uncovered across Europe with the subtitle “Researchers at the Holocaust Memorial Museum document thousands of previously unknown sites.” In it we read that 13 years ago the US Holocaust Museum researchers began to document “all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.“ What they found blew their minds.

From the story:

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.

Here’s more:

Dr. Megargee, the lead researcher, said the project was changing the understanding among Holocaust scholars of how the camps and ghettos evolved.

As early as 1933, at the start of Hitler’s reign, the Third Reich established about 110 camps specifically designed to imprison some 10,000 political opponents and others, the researchers found. As Germany invaded and began occupying European neighbors, the use of camps and ghettos was expanded to confine and sometimes kill not only Jews but also homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and many other ethnic groups in Eastern Europe. The camps and ghettos varied enormously in their mission, organization and size, depending on the Nazis’ needs, the researchers have found.

The biggest site identified is the infamous Warsaw Ghetto, which held about 500,000 people at its height. But as few as a dozen prisoners worked at one of the smallest camps, the München-Schwabing site in Germany. Small groups of prisoners were sent there from the Dachau concentration camp under armed guard. They were reportedly whipped and ordered to do manual labor at the home of a fervent Nazi patron known as “Sister Pia,” cleaning her house, tending her garden and even building children’s toys for her....

... The numbers astound: 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 980 concentration camps; 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps; 500 brothels filled with sex slaves; and thousands of other camps used for euthanizing the elderly and infirm, performing forced abortions, “Germanizing” prisoners or transporting victims to killing centers.

Please read the whole story. Evil has many faces, one of which is to deny, misinform, “underestimate,” or in other ways minimize the true sources of human suffering and brutality. I suppose some will double down and insist this is all part of some “Zionist conspiracy” to promote their suffering over the suffering of others, but ultimately that’s a dodge.

Millions really did die at the hands of deliberate human cruelty one way and another. It would have been hard to fake piles of thousands of human skeletons with 1945 photographic technology.

There are those today who deny such things happened, or insist that we shouldn’t care. Again, read the article, since it seems that 7 million didn’t die in the Nazi holocaust – 15 to 20 million did, including Semites, Slavs, gypsies, gays and anyone else the Nazis didn’t like. The evidence is indisputable that something horrific in fact did happen to millions of human beings.

People and groups that do these things have always been a global problem. Whether Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, or the Americas, groups of people have banded together to do unspeakable cruelties to other humans. The Nazis were one early 20th century face of it. So was Stalin. There were many before them, and there have been some since them.

In the coming Age, the future of humanity will be very different than the Kali Yuga thanatophilic delusion that has gripped the world for a long time. Genocide will be banished from the Earth. We’re in the transition. May kindness, compassion, and wisdom again be the rule of right relations.

Copyright © 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Renee]

Robert: To your knowledge, can there be any astrological transits that might, perhaps, illuminate a collective mass murder/suffering during the 1933-1945 time period? I have always wondered about this. Also, with the additional uranus/pluto squares coming up, anything, G-d forbid, that might signal this horrific, collective experience once again?
Thanks for your time.
Renee

[judith]

Thank you for bringing this to light here, Robert.It has only been in the last 10 years that I have been able to find out what happened to my father's entire family (including my grandparents) from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia -who were taken to another horrendous 'previously unknown' camp -Jasenovac
-in Croatia -run by Nazis and Croatians together!

As you say "May kindness, compassion, and wisdom again be the rule of right relations....."

[Robert]

Hi all - Well, I scooped Andrea Mitchell! It's now March 25 and she's finally getting around to doing the piece on NBC Nightly News but only on the web. If you want the link, http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51312918/#51318802

Ya hoid it here foist!!

[sunshyne99]

Judith, same with my fathers family.. Been searching somewhat all this life for any clues. I guess, just letting it go..has helped. Sometimes the grief is so overwhelming, especially when my dads birthday comes, which was this past spring equinox.

I "picked up" on the more than undisclosed or known Holocaust victims,before the news outbreak, or news update on all this, during the Mercury Rx, in Pisces. My dad had Pisces sun and moon placements in his natal birth chart, natal birth.

[sunshyne99]

Just another glance at my dads chart. Jupiter, Moon, Sun in Pisces, in opposition to Neptune in Virgo.
Mars, POF, 29th degree Sag.
Uranus, Taurus, Conjunct S.Node, and N.Node in Scorpio.
Pluto,29th degree, Cancer and Chiron in Cancer. Saturn, Mercury in Aries, Venus in Aquarius.

I also picked up during this time.. Of Mercury rx in Pisces.. About the Ameriasians babies left in Vietnam, and immigration to America over the years. I felt so much grief with that. They were in search of their American Dads, and ostracized from society. Healed it much during this time. They are like my brothers and sisters, and have felt their suffering, as much as my own over the years.

Much Love and Light