07-02-2003, 05:33 AM
Concentration camp? Hardly. Certainly mental abuse, but let's not cheapen the horror of what a concentration camp really is.
I remember the tales of a Russian friend of my father's who was shot down in WWII, and was in Bergen-Belsen for 18 months. He weighed 180 lbs, before and 70 lbs when they were liberated. The food was so poor, that they had to feed it to rats they kept in a pit, then eat the rats. Ritual and random killing, torture, rape and mutilation. There is a good description of the Typhus epidemic that ravaged the camp on this page; Bergen-Belsen History
I remember the tales of a Russian friend of my father's who was shot down in WWII, and was in Bergen-Belsen for 18 months. He weighed 180 lbs, before and 70 lbs when they were liberated. The food was so poor, that they had to feed it to rats they kept in a pit, then eat the rats. Ritual and random killing, torture, rape and mutilation. There is a good description of the Typhus epidemic that ravaged the camp on this page; Bergen-Belsen History
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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