Sunday, March 30, 2008

Magdalena's outline

People usually know a lot about concentration camps made by the Germanns but they know nothing about the Russian camps. The truth is that the Russian camps also killed a lot of Jewish people and others. The Russian camps are not in history book that much. This could be only one of the reasons why they are so unknown. Russia is a very poor country so people think it is not important to mention this. German camps are described in more detail and cruelty in almost every book of history. People can go to Poland and view the actual place of the tragedy which is Aushwitz -Birkenau. People don't go to Russia to view the camps. Russian camps are not clear and the murders were discovered after so many years after WW 2.

Russian camps are mysterious and the murders were discovered so many years after the war. In Katyn, Russians killed 10,000 of Polish officers and others. This was presented 65 years after the war. People worked in very bad conditions and had to amputate parts of their bodies to survive.The book called '' History of Poland, God's playground'' written by English writer Norman Davies explains the conditions.
Not so many people know that Both Germans and Russians attacked Poland in 1939 . It was only two weeks of difference between the German ocupans and the Russian. Usually man were in the Russian camps but German had everyone in it.
''The Jewish people on the way to gas chambers were impatient and didn't know where they were going so the Germans said to calm them down'' You are just going to take a bath''. This is what my own teacher in Poland told us in fifth grade of elementary.

The book by Davies describes some interviews with real Gestapo and SS. It describes the typical life of the prisoner.
Sources ; God's playground- Norman Davies.
The Pianist, also the movie Katyn nominated to Oscar.

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