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	A Trip to the Camps (visiting Nazi concentration and death camps)
		On April 13, 1945, in Gardelegen, Germany, for instance, 1,016 prisoners forced on one of the many "death marches" from the camps were locked inside a wooden barn and burned alive.
		During the war, some families of the SS stayed here with their spouses, next to the camps.
		War material made by the prisoners' slave labor was barged down the Elbe's connected waterways.
	www.rudyfoto.com /hol/campstory.html (5780 words)

	Gardelegen (war crime) at AllExperts
		On April 13, 1945 (less than a month from the end of the Second World War), German SS and Luftwaffe troops, retreating from the Allied advance, murdered 1016 political and military prisoners near the German town of Gardelegen.
		The crime was discovered two days later by the U.S. 102nd Infantry Division, 405th Regiment, 2d Battalion, F Company.
		Consensus is that American Lieutenant Emerson Hunt, a liaison officer (____unit____) between Ozark HQ and the 701st Tank Battalion was captured by German forces on April 14, 1945.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/gardelegen_(war_crime).htm (337 words)

	Gardelegen War Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They were buried by the Citizens of Gardelegen, who are charged with the responsibility that these graves are forever kept as green as the memories of these unfortunate souls will be kept in the hearts of freedom loving men everywhere.
		On April 13, 2000 the citizens of Gardelegen held a 55th anniversary memorial ceremony to commemorate the massacre.
		The remaining prisoners that reached Gardelegen were temporarily housed in the stables of the Remonteschool Garrison.
	www.102ndinfantrydivision.homestead.com /Gardelegen1.html (1317 words)

	Gardelegen (war crime) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The crime was discovered two days later by the American 102d Infantry Division, 405th Regiment, 2d Battalion, F Company.
		Gardelegen Military Cemetery Here lie 1016 allied prisoners of war who were murdered by their captors.
		They were buried by citizens of Gardelegen, who are charged with responsibility that graves are for- ever kept as green as the memory of these unfortunates will be kept in the hearts of freedom-loving men everywhere.______________ Established under supervision of 102d Infantry Division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gardelegen_(war_crime) (373 words)

	CITY GARDELEGEN - History / Memorial Place / Historic events
		Near Mieste, to the west of Gardelegen, a group of deportees mainly from DORA-Rottleberode was attacked by air raids.
		In and around Gardelegen were several units of the armed forces with thousands of soldiers fit for action.
		The war crimes, the massacre of Gardelegen, with its causes, processes and circumstances was described and interpreted in many ways in the last decades.
	www.gardelegen.info /uk/geschichte_gedenkstaette_ereignisse.htm (1388 words)

	Leon B. Poullada on Nordhausen-Dora
		In war crimes courts in the past, the ability to show that an accused had been carrying a club at all times or at some time was equivalent to a conviction.
		It was obvious that if the war was won by means of this secret weapon, this V-weapon, the individual who could hold himself as responsible for successfully bringing this weapon to bear would have earned the undying gratitude of the German people and would have assured himself of a position as successor to Hitler.
		The notorious incident at Gardelegen, in which several hundred concentration camp inmates being evacuated from Nordhausen were locked in a barn and burned to death, had been presented by the prosecution as the deed of defendant Ulbricht and Brauny, but the defense was able to show that they had not been involved.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v11/v11p-81_Poullada.html (12981 words)

	Holocaust History - Photos of Holocaust War Crimes
		The remaining prisoners that reached Gardelegen were temporarily housed in the stables of the Remonteschool Garrison.
		Nazi policy stated that the prisoners were to be killed to prevent any possibility of having them turn on their guards in the event of liberation.
		At the entrance to the cemetery a large sign was erected immortalizing the dead and ordering the residents of Gardelegen to forever maintain the cemetery under penalty of Military Law.
	www.holocaustforgotten.com /Gardelegen.htm (1288 words)

	Lone Sentry: History of the 102d Infantry Division USAR (102nd Unit History, WWI and WWII)
		The 102d Infantry Division was created shortly after the close of World War I, but did not achieve real stature until World War II when it carved on the battlefields of Hitler's Germany a brilliant record as a fighting force.
		The capture of Gardelegen, an ancient town surrounded by a moat, and containing a large air field and air force replacement center, is an event that will never be forgotten by those involved, for two reasons: the German commander was tricked into complete surrender; inside the town were found the remains of a grisly crime.
		During World War II General Sverdrup had served as General Douglas MacArthur's chief engineer, and was in large part responsible for the building of a vast system of air bases throughout the southwest Pacific.
	www.lonesentry.com /unithistory/102ndusar (3091 words)

	Gardelegen men were forced to view prisoners burned to death in a barn in Gardelegen, 13 April 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gardelegen men were forced to view prisoners burned to death in a barn in Gardelegen, 13 April 1945
		It was in keeping with this policy that General Frank A. Keating ordered that the men of Gardelegen and the surrounding villages should be forced to visit the barn on April 16th to view the bodies.
		The man who was considered to be the main instigator of the Gardelegen massacre was 34-year-old Gerhard Thiele, who was the Nazi party district leader of Gardelegen.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Gardelegen/Massacre04.html (890 words)

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		Crime in WWII - Battle of Britain Investigation - The fate of the crew of Leutnant Albert Metzger's Heinkel on a south coast beach.
		Crime in WWII - The Killing of Guardsman Fox - The death of a Grenadier Guardsman, stabbed near the Snappy Snax Cafe in Eastbourne in July 1944, investigated by Andy Saunders.
		War Crime - The Ascq Massacre The murder of civilians by 12.
	www.afterthebattle.com /ab-con1.html (15779 words)

	Gambling with Lies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the end of World War II many of the Nazi concentration camps were emptied.
		One march ended when the survivors forced into a barn near the town of Gardelegen that was subsequently doused with gasoline and set ablaze.
		Since this is far from any normal behaviour, and since the perpetrators of the crime were not forced to commit the brutalities they have committed, one needs to ask oneself what monstrous lies have made the people responsible to become so inhuman.
	peace.rolf-witzsche.com /witzsche/lies.html (246 words)

	GM's Corner : Militaria Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Those that make the chicken hawk argument are intellectually dishonest and their argument is not to foster debate about the war or its outcome or the rationaile for it, it is simply to shut up anyone who dares to disagree with them.
		If we lose this war, we will have lost more than our civilization, we will have lost a legacy bequeathed to us on June 6, 1944 and the next 330+ days as the tyranny of the Nazis was crushed beneath the heel of freedom.
		War was averted and the intervention of Eisenhower forced Israel, England and France to withdraw from the Suez.
	www.gmroper.com /archives/militaria (7902 words)

	CITY GARDELEGEN - History / Memorial Place
		The memorial place “Isenschnibber Feldscheune” in Gardelegen is in sponsorship of the town Gardelegen.
		You have to obtain the codes of conduct that are to be found on German cemeteries.
		The event of the war crime in Gardelegen in April 1945 is still a matter of large and current scientific investigations.
	www.gardelegen.info /uk/geschichte_gedenkstaette.htm (205 words)

	America's Greatest Generation: Army Heroes: the Camps
		These were used in the war criminal trials that were to take place later after the war was over.
		Dwight D. Eisenhower is used to war and the death and dirt that goes with it.
		But visiting these liberated death camps so moved him that he requested a committee of Allied and neutral journalists and statesmen to visit some of the camps in person, to see the horror with their own eves while the marks of the horror were fresh.
	carol_fus.tripod.com /army_the_camps.html (6782 words)

	CollageMama's Itty Bitty Blog: Keeping things in perspective
		This is an account of their latest infamous crime.
		They were guarded by a few trusted prisoners, who were promised freedom for their work, several more Wehrmacht and SS troops.
		The village of Gardelegen fell to the American troops Saturday evening but the scene of this atrocity was not discovered until Monday morning.
	collagemama.blogspot.com /2004/06/keeping-things-in-perspective.html (730 words)

	GM's Corner : March 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As elements of the 405th Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division approached Gardelegen resistance was sporadic.
		Dad was a 1st Lt. in the 405th and was with them from their first combat on 23 October through the end of the war and was with the 405th when it made the grisly discovery.
		As Schwartz notes, his writings were frequently a "sharp polemical sword" used against "the crimes of the Castro Regime." Infante's death was met with silence in Cuba which is a shame, because Infante was one of the bright shining lights in Cuban and Spanish literature.
	www.gmroper.com /archives/2005/03 (10013 words)

	SS
		He went into hiding after the war under an assumed name and his identity was not uncovered until 1994, three years after his death.
		In World War II, the British Free Corps (BFC) or Britisches Freikorps was a unit of the Waffen-SS consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis.
		The crime was discovered two days later by the United States 102d Infantry Division, 405th Regiment, 2d Battalion, F Company.
	www.shortopedia.com /S/S/SS (1224 words)

	The Globalization of Peace - Truth versus Guns
		In the case of the historians, the 'crime' that they stand accused of, and some are incarcerated for, is the 'thought crime' of having doubted the accuracy of the official doctrine regarding the history of the Nazi Holocaust.
		But what about the real crimes, the crimes of state terror, wars and barbarous acts of inhumanity against subjugated people who have no means to defend themselves, the modern holocaust carried out with tanks, supersonic aircraft, and bulldozers ploughing down people's houses indiscriminately and pre-emptively, or soldiers shooting children on their way to school.
		He did not foresee however that those wars would explode with the most massive increase in the use of dirty bombs, the infamous depleted-uranium bombs that are rapidly polluting the global environment with radioactive particles, such as are now causing health problems all over the world.
	members.shaw.ca /rolfwitzsche/love.html (6416 words)

	A Collective Conscience?
		Further crimes are committed because of that memory and frequently these memories transmogrify into tribal, racial, or national memory and live on and on.
		During the cold war, again the attempts by the Armenians to get the genocide recognised widely were thwarted by the fact that Turkey was a NATO ally.
		Now that the cold war is over and there is an international consensus to see genocides with a fresh eye, the Armenian Genocide has again raised its profile.
	www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/0405/67.html (1704 words)

	Essay about Goldhagens book: Hitlers willing executioneers - Aufsatz über Goldhagens Buch: Hittlers willige Helfer
		Not all of those people had been imprisoned for „crimes“ in connection with antisemitism, but this number shows that a lot of people have made their acquaintance with the “no-nonsense” approach of the new order.
		He does not establish why with the development of war from a battle between aristocrats to the slaughter of peoples armies the classification of civilians as legitimate targets for killing in war is a specific German behaviour that is in no way shared by any European army (the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
		Regarding a death march to Gardelegen Goldhagen uses a quote that seems to suggest that 5,000 to 6,000 people were pushed into a barn and subsequently burned to death.
	www.rolfschwarz.com /Essays/goldhagen.htm (6672 words)

	Deja Vu in Gardelegen - Russian Shootdown of a USAF RB-66B Destroyer
		Note: This true life account “Deja Vu in Gardelegen” is a sequel to “A Cold Night in Erfurt.” This event happened on March 10, 1964, less then two months after the downing of the T-39 described in the aforementioned narrative.
		This, as the previous account, is an excerpt from the author’s manuscript entitled “From Cold War to Drug War.” Any discrepancies that might be found with other documented accounts of this incident are unintentional and would only be as a result of differing recollections of the incident.
		The purpose of his job in the guard shack was not to protect the American mission house from outsiders - crime in East Germany was practically non-existent - his job was strictly to monitor movement in and out of the house.
	www.usmlm.org /home/coldwar/shootdowns/1964rb66downing.htm (4757 words)

	Holocaust Center Collections
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		First World War & the Rise of Fascism; The Second World War, The
		Great War: Total War (Episode 3): The Armenian Genocide, The
	www.qcc.cuny.edu /HRCA/collections/videoSearch.asp (1158 words)

	frontline: memory of the camps: transcript \| PBS
		For decades that film was stored in the archives of the Imperial War Museum in London.
		The commandant of the camp, Joseph Kramer, was removed for trial as a war criminal by an Allied Military Court.
		There were children, too, in Belsen camp, though what crime they had committed was difficult to imagine.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/campscript.html (3220 words)

	April 13 [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not even the members of the well-known Donner Party were convicted of cannibalism in California, as cannibalism is not a crime in the United States....
		Similarly, when the term is used in the context of war or armed struggle, a formal military alliance is not required for being perceived as an ally —; co-belligerenc...
		February 1 - France declares war on England, the Netherlands (see French Revolutionary Wars) February 12 - The Congress of the United States passes a law legally requiring the return of slaves escaping from slave states into free t...
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	Queer Visions of Freedom: Paragraph 175: The Holocaust and Homosexuals
		FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London's Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, "Memory of the Camps."
		When the concentration camps were liberated at the end of World War II, Keel (museum director) said, there was no liberation for homosexuals.
		It wasn’t until 1995, 40 years after the war’s end, that homosexuals murdered by the Nazis were recognized.
	www.queervisions.com /arch/2005/05/memory_of_the_c.html (4380 words)

	America's Greatest Generation: Army Heroes: Edward J. Santos
		We at the World War II Stories -- In Their Own Words web site wish to offer our most profound THANK YOU to the Grandson of Mr.
		The image above is a family tribute to the memory of their World War II hero.
		World War II Stories -- In Their Own Words.
	carol_fus.tripod.com /army_hero_edward_santos.html (573 words)

	Leon B. Poullada: Major Poullada's final defense plea in the Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp case
		Some people will answer that there were three women involved, and others will say the professor was the one who drew the knife.
		However, testimony given seven weeks after the event was much more variable than that given one week after.
		Frere Birin's testimony is dealt with at length by Paul Rassinier, who knew him at Dora/Nordhausen, in The Holocaust Story and the Lies of Ulysses, pp.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/11/1/Poullada81-119.html (13037 words)

	HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
		But he passes on to discuss the subject more broadly and resting on the testimony of a certain monk who had actually seen demons he teaches their perpetual activity in human affairs; that they can propagate their species; and go anywhere at will under either a male or female form.
		Add to this his travels, his austerities, his predominant love for religion, and his election is explained.
		War broke out between Sigebert and the savage Chilperic, and Tours was taken by the latter in 575.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/history/4_ch14.htm (14065 words)

	1945_1946
		Schongarth was tried by a British Military Court, found guilty on another war crime charge, sentenced to death and was hanged in 1946.
		Ranking nazi officials were tried and convicted of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
		In 1987 a national war memorial was proposed and in 1993 Congress approved funding to build it on the Mall in Washington DC.
	www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1945.HTML (14160 words)

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