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esponsible for the shattered wrecks of human beings who formed the majority of the inmates....there
had been no water for about a week owing to damage by (allied) shell fire to the electrical pumping
equipment on which the system depended." - Appendix 'O' Chapter. V11, Second Army History
Interestingly, this report alluding to the disruption of supplies due to the total war conditions mentions
" meals varied from one to three per day." Interesting because the inmates of Belsen were better fed
than the German prisoners held by the Americans. . 260,000 German POWs held by the Americans
after the fighting had ended 'lived' (actually 1,200 died) on one potato, a single biscuit, a spoonful of
vegetables and some water, a day". - The Times, 7th March 1995
Such photographs as those taken at Bergen-Belsen could have been taken anywhere in Central
Europe, where millions of civilians of many nations faced death through starvation and disease,
producing similar mounds of emaciated corpses. In the case of Displaced Persons and concentration
camp victims, the causes were deprivation, starvation, typhoid and cholera; not as a deliberate policy
but as a direct consequence of the allies determination to totally destroy Germany, leading to
unconditional surrender. This may not be palatable, but it is the truth.
On a visit that I made to Dachau - and I invite you to do likewise - you will see numerous
photographs of inmates, clearly in good health and thoroughly fit, even wearing industrial gloves to
protect their hands. Each of us have seen photographs of inmates at the point of liberation who again
are obviously in good health.
I have yet to hear an explanation as to why in some parts of Germany the liberated were physically fit
and in good health, whilst in other parts we see the horrendous results of starvation and disease. We
can draw our own conclusions from the fact that the scale and location of such misery or lack of it, is
directly related to the destructiveness of the allied war machine.
CAMP REALITIES
Oswald Pohl of the S.S Economy and Administration Office, provided incriminating statements
relating to camp procedures, but only under torture:
"Pohl had signed some incriminating statements after being subjected to severe torture, including a
bogus admission that he had seen a gas chamber at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944."
Senator McCarthy
Prior to Pohl being arrested and tortured as a means of procuring 'evidence of extermination', one
Heinrich Hoepker, vehemently anti-Nazi who was nevertheless friendly with Oswald Pohl's wife and
as such a frequent visitor between the years 1942 - 1945, described the S.S officer:
"Hoepker noted that Pohl was essentially a mild-mannered and serene person. During a visit to Pohl
in the spring of 1944, Hoepker was brought into contact with concentration camp inmates who were
working on a local project outside the camp area. He noted that the prisoners worked in a leisurely
manner and relaxed atmosphere without any pressure from their guards.
Hoepker declared that Pohl did not hold an emotional attitude towards the Jews, and did not object to
his wife entertaining her Jewish friend, Annemarie Jacques at their home. By the beginning of 1945,
Hoepker was fully convinced that the administrator of the concentration camps was a humane,
conscientious and dedicated servant of the task, and he was astonished when he heard later in 1945 of
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