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Nazi Gas Chambers

  • 10-10-2009 8:00pm
    #1
    trench foot
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    Hi,

    I was speaking to a guy from Germany last week and we were discussing world war two and the holocost. He told me that at the concentration camps the nazies had signs over the entrances of the Gas Chambers saying 'Mind your step.' Does anyone know if this is true?


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  • #2
    center15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭center15


    trench foot wrote: »
    Hi,

    I was speaking to a guy from Germany last week and we were discussing world war two and the holocost. He told me that at the concentration camps the nazies had signs over the entrances of the Gas Chambers saying 'Mind your step.' Does anyone know if this is true?

    Sure could be! Visited Auschwitz myself, the tour guide said the idea was to make the people who were going in to think that they were going to come back as so not to create panic.

    They told them to remember where they left their shoes so they could get them after their "shower" and also write their name on their suitcase. All added to the effect of they were only having a shower made them much easier to manage. Horrible stuff really.

    Have a flickr set here from the trip.


  • #3
    trench foot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭trench foot


    Thats rough stuff but with a bit of Irish humour in it. Hard to imagine though.


  • #4
    jhegarty
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    The entrance to the showers and gas chambers looked simular , so people didn't know which group they were selected for.

    So I would believe such a sign may have been there, so that it didn't look like a gas chamber.


  • #5
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Even if just on a practical aspect, someone needed to go in, police up the bodies, and clean the place out.

    NTM


  • #6
    Rondolfus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭Rondolfus


    trench foot wrote: »
    Thats rough stuff but with a bit of Irish humour in it. Hard to imagine though.


    ????????:confused:


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  • #7
    bluefinger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭bluefinger


    yes.

    Was in Dachau last summer and that sign was there.

    More chilling was the fact that over the entrance were the words Arbeit macht frei, meaning work will set you free. Sadistic fcukers.


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