Jan 28, 2018
On this day in 1945, the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. 6 MILLION innocent Jews and others such as gyspies, political prisoners, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexual men (lesbians were not imprisoned), political prisoners and other people had lost their lives.
1.1 MILLION were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau alone. January 27 was designated by the UN as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
My friend Steven L Sears posted this on his Facebook page. Please read “This Room At Dachau”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IezXBcNdJY
Jan 13, 2018
Doesn’t this article just break your heart? I shed so many tears I filled a bucket. The poor Nazis couldn’t get to sleep because there was too much light. Isn’t that shocking? It’s a human right to sleep in the dark without intrusive lights interrupting their sleep.
Someone should have given me a gun and I would have sent them to sleep very easily. The searchlights would not have bothered them although the fires of hell are far more brutal and difficult to get to sleep than a little searchlight. The following Nazi sob story was in the Guardian Newspaper
Letter released to National Archives reveals how chancellor of West Germany complained about conditions for inmates including Albert Speer
Nazi war criminals in Spandau prison ‘could not sleep due to searchlights’
Letter released to National Archives reveals how chancellor of West Germany complained about conditions for inmates including Albert Speer
Nazi war criminals held in the infamous Spandau prison after the second world were treated “exceedingly harshly”, and could not sleep because of constant security searchlights, according to Konrad Adenauer, West Germany’s first postwar chancellor, in a letter released by the National Archives.
Inmates at the Berlin jail – the running of which was shared on monthly rotation between the Allied powers of UK, US, France and Soviet Union – were also prohibited from conversing or reading, Adenauer complained to Allied officials in the letter, dated 21 June 1950.
Food, which “had always been bad during the Russian months”, had become “very bad and deficient” again, he said.
Adenauer’s intervention on behalf of the prisoners, which at that time included Albert Speer and Rudolf Hess, is among a cache of documents from the Allied administration of Berlin that have been declassified.
The West German chancellor also complained that clergymen were not permitted to visit inmates. “The pope some time ago had his blessings transmitted to one of the prisoners,” he wrote. “The prisoner was never informed of this but heard it only when his daughter visited him.
“For humanitarian reasons,” Adenauer added, “I feel moved to ask [that] the governments [the Allied occupying powers] to cause conditions in the military prison at Spandau to be investigated and to take steps to ensure that penal practice be adapted to the principles prevailing in civilised countries.”
British, French and US authorities who met the following day to assess the complaints partially blamed the Soviets for the conditions. The three western powers agreed to reduce the frequency with which the lights were turned on at night.
In July 1950, the secretariat of the Allied High Commission for Germany wrote back to Adenauer. “Contrary to the information which appears to have been given to you, it is neither prohibited for prisoners … to talk or read,” he said. “Their food is quite adequate during the months of management by the western powers and even during the Soviet month the regular amount of calories is provided.”
However, the chancellor was informed, lampshades would in future be provided for lights in the men’s cells and the frequency of night security searches would be “reduced to a minimum”.
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Nov 13, 2017
Chapter 3
October 30, 1944 – Midnight
On the road to Athena’s Bluff
Whenever my mama found out I was reading or drawing down by the river, she would look up into the heavens and say, ‘Her spirit is willing, but her flesh is weak, Father.’ Not that God cared when I did my chores. I wasn’t sure if my spirit was willing to do any chores when I had something far better to do, like drawing. I’m not even sure why my mama’s words came to me at that very moment. That was an odd thing to think about as I slogged my way beyond the hospital and up the road leading to Athena’s Bluff. My flashlight was trying to light my way, but the rain was not making things easy.
I came to the crossroad. Do I go up the mountain or do I travel back into town? The idea of trudging up the mountain seemed like an insurmountable goal. I settled for going back into town and trying to get some sleep in my house. I just didn’t have the energy to move. Not up a mountain. The soles of my feet hurt, my body ached, and all I wanted was to stop and lie down in the nearest field. Even if there was a torrential dump of rain. I didn’t care.
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Nov 5, 2017
That didn’t take long now, did it? Of course not. Go and see my latest artwork of Eva and myself!
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Oct 30, 2017
Surviving The Peace Chapter 2 (29 October 1944) has been posted. It’s from the second entry of October 29, 1944.
I was getting too morose as the day dragged on, and my ankle had swollen up after my rampage through the streets to get to Eva. Despite my ankle, I just had to get up and walk around. I’ve never been one to just sit down for long periods of time. Unless, of course, I was waiting to ambush German soldiers. I’m not going to be doing that now. Eva was asleep, the nurses were doing their afternoon rounds, and the Australian soldier that I wanted to talk to was fast asleep too. As I walked through the ward to get out, my stomach rumbled.
I walked out into semi-darkness. There was a sliver of light on the horizon peeking through the clouds. I would have admired the view if I wasn’t hungry.
“Is Eva asleep?”
I looked around when I heard Thanasi’s voice and found him leaning on the crates. I almost didn’t recognize him. He had shaved off his beard right after I had seen him earlier. “She was when I came out here. What happened to your face? Did a razor attack you?”
Thanasi laughed. “I haven’t shaved in four years; I thought I might see what was under there.” He put his arm around me and I wondered what he was doing. I sure hope he wasn’t about to tell me how Anthony was sweet on me or something as silly.
“I’ve been meaning to talk to you about something. I made a promise to Father Haralambos about taking care of you, and I’m determined to keep it. I promised him that you and Eva would leave Greece.”
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