When a 'leader' gets adored - The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

This is the ultimate end result of a adoration for power drunk ruler, gun control, a fawning press, compliant religions, pure fascism and race politics! Doing these things that lead to power concentration and the abrogation of individual rights can ultimately causes concentration camps. They were not just a Nazi invention though. Stalin and Mao (just to name two) were just as murderous and are chronically given a pass by the press and historians. The term "concentration camp" was used by the British for their prison camps during the Boar War.  Hitler and Stalin instituted Gun Control, so the people were unable to fight the terror of their own government. Churches were outspoken in favor socialist programs. There has been only one main exception, on abortion. Crony Capitalism is a form of Oligarchy-Socialism, or a pure form of Fascism. Race has an ugly flip side. The inversion of genocide was racial superiority. Hasn't that happened now, where just mentioning certain races has become taboo? Isn't there a politically motivated press that only selectively reports based on race preferences and left wing politics these days? 
About forty years ago, I went to my tailor to have a suit fitted. As my German-Jewish tailor measured me, I looked down and noticed a series of numbers, in blue about a half inch high. They were shakily scrawled into the inside of his forearm. Sadly, I recognized this tattoo immediately and I was revulsed and overwhelmed immediately by mental images of the horror and death my tailor had experienced and witnessed at the hands of his own government. That image will never be forgotten and shouldn't be. m/r

The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking - NYTimes.com

March 1, 2013

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.

The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.

The figure is so staggering that even fellow Holocaust scholars had to make sure they had heard it correctly when the lead researchers previewed their findings at an academic forum in late January at the German Historical Institute in Washington.

“The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the institute, said in an interview after learning of the new data.

“We knew before how horrible life in the camps and ghettos was,” he said, “but the numbers are unbelievable.”

The documented camps include not only “killing centers” but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named “care” centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel.

Auschwitz and a handful of other concentration camps have come to symbolize the Nazi killing machine in the public consciousness. Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site — the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear.

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