Holocaust infrastructure far, FAR more horrific than previously believed

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
3/5/2013
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42,500 Nazi camps, ghettos stretched from Nazi-controlled France to Russia between 1933 and 1945

The Holocaust cast the longest and darkest shadow across 20th century history. The systematic persecution, torture and wholesale murder of Jews and others during the Third Reich across Europe resulted in the deaths of - at a conservative estimate - of over six million people. Researchers are now horrified to discover that the infrastructure for this Machine of death was far larger and more prevalent than what was previously thought.

Auschwitz was the largest and most famous of the Nazi concentration camps, but a new study says it was just one of a total of 980 across Europe.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Researchers originally expected to find about 7,000 camps and ghettos throughout the continent when they began. The final number they found was a staggering 42,500 locations.

Auschwitz was the largest and most famous of the Nazi concentration camps, but a new study says it was just one of a total of 980 across Europe.

New research shows that about 42,500 Nazi camps and ghettos stretched from Nazi-controlled France to Russia between 1933 and 1945, during Adolf Hitler's reign of terror and darkness.

Researcher Martin Dean was astonished to find the prevalence of camps in Germany. Berlin, for instance, had about 3,000 camps and Hamburg had 1,300 sites.

"You literally could not go anywhere in Germany without running into forced labor camps, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps," Dean says. "They were everywhere."

Dean and fellow scholar Geoffrey Megargee presented their findings at the German Historical Institute in Washington in late January, reported The New York Times.

"The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought," institute director Hartmut Berghoff told reporters. "We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was . but the numbers are unbelievable."

The research team uncovered 30,000 slave camps, 1,150 Jewish ghettos, 1,000 prisoner-of-war camps, 980 concentration camps, 500 sex-slave brothels and thousands of other camps serving a myriad of wicked ends: forced abortions, mandatory euthanasia of the elderly and ill, "Germanization" and transportation hubs to murder sites, according to the Times.

The team started its research in 2000 for a seven-volume encyclopedia published by the Holocaust Museum, who have already released the first two volumes and expect to release all seven by 2025.

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Keywords: Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, concentration camps, research, infrastructure

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christian
2 months ago
No one is talking about the Socialist (Marxist) holocaust, because the are own the media. They are tortured, killed millions of innocent people. Both side of my grandparents, families was tortured, myself beaten up by those criminals. You don't hear it because they are who leading the world today, including the EU, US.
The attack against the christian world, especially the Catholics. We already went trough this crime in Europe.
You need to look out especially the corporations, bigger retail stores, they are the watchdogs.
(Revelations 13)
Louis Barta
2 months ago
"The Holocaust cast the longest and darkest shadow across 20th century history."

Are the author(s) of this Holocaust propaganda piece suggesting that the hundreds of millions of innocent victims slain by abortion, Bolshevism, and Maoism in the 20th century cast a shadow that was shorter and less dark?
ck
2 months ago
Yet we have a growing number of young people throughout the world who are completely ignorant of what happened during WWII, are not being taught about it in school, and think it has no bearing on the present day. It is just some "old stuff" from their grandparent's generation. Don't believe me? I have a brother who routinely goes to Germany for business. He told me many younger people (30s) he spoke with, when the topic came up, are "tired of hearing about it.” And that they "didn't have anything to do with it." Yes, they are correct. They were not alive at that time, BUT IT DID HAPPEN! And in the case of this article, many people just "looked the other way." I don't care if you are in your 20s, 30s, 40s, etc. We all have an obligation to make sure our youth are taught accurate history. Otherwise, they may very well live to time where it repeated again.

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