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BigmanPigman

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1. I have seen many interviews with vets who liberated the camps
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 07:27 PM
Feb 2023

on You Tube. One thing that all of them remembered was the horrific stench a mile from the prison camp. The neighboring towns knew what this smell was, THEY ALL KNEW! It smelled of burning flesh, rotting bodies, filth and disease. The soldiers didn't know what to do since this was 100% unbelievable. Most of them threw up from the stench alone. In Bergen Belsen there was so much Typhus from overcrowding that some of the walking dead resorted to cannibalism since the dead bodies were all over the grounds. The soldiers went into one of the Nazi prison camp "hospitals" and found a completely conscience man nailed to a board standing upright and his intestines had been taken out and put on a table next to where he was standing. The soldiers had to leave him there and alerted coming troops and hopefully would be sending the poor man off to a real hospital. He likely died before this happened. Even Gen Patton puked at the sights amd smells. Most of the soldiers who liberated the camps were unable to speak about it for the rest of their lives, not even telling their family amd friends about what they saw. Many finally spoke about it 50 hears later and they still broke down and cried. Those images will never be forgotten and they will suffer as long as they live after witnessing the cruelty inflicted upon one human, millions of humans from others who were not so "human".

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