HELP! I need stories from american soldiers that went into concentration camps in germany.?
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Try reading The Diary of Ann Frank.  That would give you some idea.  Schindler's List is a movie that tells a true story of a German who protected Jews.  If they were caught many of the same things happened to them as happened to the Jews.  \n\nIf there is a Holocaust Museum in your area try to visit it.  There is an excellent on in St. Petersburg, FL.\n\nI've attached some websites that should help you.
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Well this one is good if you have a Jewish friend, especially if his grandparents we're in a concentration camp during WWII (hopefully they we're but hey, it's only a joke). So if he starts talking about how his grandparents were in a camp during WWII, come in casually and say "Yeah, my grandfather died in a concentration camp too." pause for him to say something to the affect of "oh I'm sorry to hear that."  When he does there's your opening, say "Yeah I know, the poor bastard fell from a watch tower."
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Yes we do. This is why we are so weary of war and destruction now.  I'm sure there are people that would rather forget about this. Most of the time it is the older generation that lived through that horror and are just tired of hearing about it over and over again.\nMost German kids will visit a concentration camp with their class at some point. This is done to help us understand the horrors and as a warning to never allow something like this to ever happen again.  The concentration camps are set up as museums now and are very graphic. Believe me, I will never forget that feeling when I stood in those gas chambers that looked like big shower rooms. I was in 9th grade then and it feels like it was yesterday.  I remember the mood in our entire class was very depressed and somber as we left that day.\nSo, Germany as a whole will never want to forget what happened back then.  But of course there a black sheep everywhere, so are the Neo-Nazis.  Usually when there is a Neo-Nazi gathering anywhere in Germany, there are always large demonstrations against them.
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my family left because of impending war....well most of them died; i was told that some ended up in concentration camps during the late 1930s-40s
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It made them see the real truth behind the war. It was a place of horror and a nightmare for those people who had served in the concentration camps and in those who have liberated them. it was an equal relationship between the two. Savior and prisoner. There are no words that could describe the reaction of the troops because it is beyond mere human words. It's seen through the eyes of one prisoner and the eyes of his savior. It was something that was inhumane and unjustified cruelty, and something that no one would EVER had to have gone through or witness. It just made the soldier who liberated the camps see how much more endurance these people have, and the sorrow and pain and torture those Jew's had back then.
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I'm sure you can tell by the previous posts that he "hurt" more than he ever could have hoped to help. His goals were to purify the German people (so to speak) and bring them out of a sorry state post WW1. But, if you call that help, I suppose mass murder and conquest would be is the way to go. Perhaps you should ask the question in an other way, I"m sure you couldn't have truly meant 'help' through containment camps.
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The higher levels of the german military were aware of the scope and magnitude of things. The enilisted men probably knew bits and pieces, but not the full picture, and were not in a position to change it since if they resisted, they would be shot. \nMost of the german people were aware of a little what was going on, but also would be shot or put in camps if they tried to stand up for what was right. Many were killed for protesting it and trying to fight against it. \n\nMy mothers best friend when I was a kid, was the daughter of the mayor of Ulm Germany at the time. Her father stood up to the Nazi's and was shot and killed for his beliefs. My mom's friend, who was 14 at the time, was forced to stand naked in the snow in a bucket of cold water for hours as punishment since she was related. She was forced into a concentration camp, and ended up with tuberculosis. She survived, but the starvation and abuse  effected her health for the rest of her life. \n\nI have never met anyone that was prouder to be an American than she was. Sometimes we forget what we have.
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Abu Gharib ... ooooh scary, dogs barked at me, someone put underwear on my head, a woman pointed at me and laughed.  Big deal.\n\nGuantanamo ... tell me, what happened there.  FACTS, not the NewsWeek/60 Minutes lies.  Air conditioned rooms, 3 hots and a cot, meals made specially for them.  WOW that's real torture.\n\nHaditha ... you don't know what happened there, I don't know what happened.  All we know is that there has been an investigation, all of the Marines were given thumbs up on a job well done.  No soldier is being charged with anything.\n\nOK now let's look at the guys we are fighting:\n-using women/children as bombs\n-beheadings, kidnappings, REAL torture, rape\n-blowing up anything and everything with IEDs\n-these guys would kill you, your family, and everyone you know if you gave them half a chance\n\nSo before you want to wring your hands and shout THOSE POOR PEOPLE.  Look at the facts before you dump on Pres Bush and our marines and demand we leave.
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I don't really remember it, but my mom told the story to me (and my girlfriend, who delights in re-telling it to everyone)...\n\nWhen I was 5, my dad was in the military hospital for hernia surgery, and my mom and I came to visit him.  We had to stop at the floor desk, and sign in before continuing in to see my dad in his room.  While we were waiting to sign in, another patient was being "walked" down the hallway by a nurse.  This patient had both legs amputated above the knee, and was learning to walk on his stumps to toughen the tissue so he could eventually wear prosthetics.  The nurses had folded the pant legs of his pajamas and pinned them up.  During his "walk", the pant legs had come loose and were trailing behind him.\n\nNOW THAT I'M OLDER (and hopefully wiser), I FEEL VERY BADLY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED NEXT, SO PLEASE DON'T CALL ME A MONSTER!\n\nWhile my mother signed us in, I ran over, jumped onto the trailing pant legs and shouted "free ride".  The poor man walked out of his pajamas, and was now nude from the waist down.  Everyone was horrified, except for the patient, who was laughing so hard he could hardly breathe.  He told my mom not to punish me, as this the first time he had laughed since losing his legs.\n\nThere.  You happy now?
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Notice you're only getting answers from people who are from the US...?  All but one who stated what another country's opinion is.  Please disregard the rest.  Now, I was stationed in Germany for about 3 years and I can say that the majority of people that I encountered had a pretty good opinion of American's.  I never really got too much of their opinion of America as a whole.  If it is of any consideration, after the war in Iraq started the Germans actually volunteered some of their troops to guard our posts over there.  Just a little enlightenment and something that the people who say "The whole world hates America after the Iraq War" might want to think about.  The biggest thing that I can mention is when we went to Holland for some training:  The Dutch still look at America as liberators.  So, that's just my opinion as some one who has actually been to other countries, not one who just criticizes my own while I'm safe in it.
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All the concentration camps in the U.S.A. and \nGermany. Also some camps in other parts of Europe.\nYes the U.S.A.  The Germans wern't the only ones\nwho interned people.  We didn't exterminate ours\nis the only difference.  Many of the U.S. Japaneese\nwere some of our Heros, but that doesn't mean that\nwe didn't treat the majority of them like prisoners.
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Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz, Dachau, & Triblinka are the ones that I can recall off the top of my head.  Go to any Holocaust site and I'm sure they will provide detailed information about concentration camps--and perhaps the many camps for Displaced People who were used as slave laborers too.
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I was stationed in Germany...and had heard all the rumors about "hearty German Woman".  I had only been in country about 2 weeks and "the regulars" took "the newbies" out to a VERY German bar.  \n\nI not only drank ALOT of German beer....I did ALOT of banana schnapps  << did I spell that right...anyway.  So a little into the evening I am feeling AMERICAN and GIRLY and I loudly yell in a crowded, smoke infested room of old German men......"BIG BREASTED GERMAN LADY, BRING ME A BEER NOW".......!  I don't know the look on anyone ones face when I said it, I was too caught up in my moment....BUT...I did hear their cheer when she brought me a brimming beer and said in PERFECT ENGLISH......"HERE SMALL TITTY GIRL.....SOMEDAY YOU WILL WISH YOU HAD WHAT I DO"!\n\nConclusion:  I passed out....they brought me home.....they plopped me on the top bunk.....I fell.  I puked banana for the next 2 days.....I now wish my Grandma was German.  Go figure!
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Wild chicken, I remember it well. It was where we used to do our mortar gunnery trials. Great food, got to meet German soldiers... I didn't appreciate the blizzard during the winter of 75-76 though.
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There are volumes of photos taken by the alied forces as they were liberating the camps. There are also many written accounts from eyewitnesses, both internees and liberators.\n\nThere are the camps, or what is left of them.\n\nThere are internal German State Department (and SS) memos (many now in the Yale library) that mentin movement of Jews and others.\n\nIn 1920 the German Eugenics Society published an article titled: "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life".  Written by Karl Binding, A court judge, and Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist.\nAs for pictures, see below link to Google image search.
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Ask the Jews if they thought war was necessary during WWII.\n\nAuschwitz\n\nAuschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Auschwitz was located in Poland. It was made up of 3 concentration camps in one. It was a camp that had forced work and killed people. The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 ¼ million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II.\n\nBergen-Belsen\n\nBergen-Belsen was near the villages of Bergen and Belsen in Germany. It was built in 1943 as a prison camp and a Jewish slave work camp. It was meant for 10,000 people but ended up holding 41,000. It did not have any gas chambers, but 37,000 prisoners died there. They died from diseases or just being over worked. Anne Frank, one of the most famous concentration camp victims today, died there.\n\nBuchenwald\n\nBuchenwald was one of the first and the biggest concentration camps. It was built in 1937 in Weimar, Germany. It held 20,000 prisoners and most of them worked as slaves in near by factories. There were no gas chambers in Buchenwald, but many died from disease, little food or the wrong kind of food (malnutrition), exhaustion, beatings, and executions. Prisoners were used to test the viruses and their vaccines.\n\nDachau\n\nDachau was the first Nazi concentration camp built. The camp was built in 1933. It was located in Dachau, Germany. The camp was meant to perfrom medical experiments on prisoners. These experiments left the people dead or disabled. The experiments and the harsh living conditions made it one of the most harsh camps. It was not designed as a killing camp though.\n\nSachsenhausen\n\nThis camp was located near the village of Sachsenhausen, in north Germany. It was built in 1936 as a part of 3 camps including Buchenwald and Dachau. The early prisoners of the camp were 10,000 Jewish people from Berlin and Hamburg. 200,000 people were in the camp and 100,000 of them ended up dying from disease, exhaustion, and over working in the local factories. A lot of the rest were brought to many other death camps.\n\nTheresienstadt\n\nThis camp was in north Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic). The camp later became a walled-in ghetto (a part of a city where Jewish people were forced to live) in 1941. After the people that were not Jews were evacuated, they started sending more Jews to the camp from Germany, Austria, Denmark, and other countries. Out of 14 1,000 Jewish people sent to Theresienstadt, 33,500 people died from the crowding in the ghettto, 88,000 Jews were sent to killing camps, from Theresienstadt, especially Auschwitz.\n\nI think you see my point.