Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: "Here Comes a Big Shot!" Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project http://www.nizkor.org Keywords: Theresienstadt,Rahm Archive/File: camps/theresienstadt/theresien.02 Last-Modified: 1994/02/15 "By April 1945 the Americans, General Patton among them, were closing in from the west. Flying Fortresses, scattering leaflets over Theresienstadt, encouraged the inmates to hold fast. Rahm [ed. note: the commandant's name was Karl Rahm, a mechanic and criminal in civilian life] labored furiously with his staff to destroy evidence. They burned thousands of incriminating documents. Townspeople were recruited to help dispose of boxes of human ashes that had been stored in cellars. Although Theresienstadt boasted no large-scale cremetoria, those who had been summarily executed or had died of disease had been cremated. The German bureaucratic mind had made sure that the containers with remains were carefully labeled as to names and dates of birth and death. The ashes of the famous or prominent had been desposited in iron boxes, the `nobodies' in cardboard. As these were hurredly collected by the Nazi wardens to be thrown into the Ulatove River, it was considered good sport to mix the celebrities with the lesser lights. When an iron box came up the line, the guards indulged their humor: `Look out, here comes a big shot.'" Rahm and his henchmen were condemned at Nurembuerg and hung. Extracted from--------------------------------------------------- "THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED", Abram L. Sachar (New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1983. -----------------------------------------------------------------
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