I recently discovered that the number I have been quoting as my Dad's Buchenwald number is incorrect. My brother and I were relying on our memories of the number branded on my Dad's arm - it seems that neither of us were correct! The number on his arm was allocated at Auschwitz and also slightly different from the number I have been quoting!!!!! At this point, I am leaving the blog with the incorrect number. Somehow!!!Day 51 is in the wrong spot in the blog - sorry about that!
"A combination of planned and unplanned actions now came into play which helped hasten the downfall of Hitler. The information that had recently been passed on to us was essential intelligence in relation to the V2's and V3's as well as the military installations for jet planes down in the valley. There were enough weapons to have a ball. "Peenemunde" was a baby in comparison. Nevertheless, it was only Peenemunde that was ever mentioned out of it all!!!
Like most other concentration camps, Buchenwald is only known for its atrocities - no recommendations for the actions and deeds mentioned in this narration, which I believe were of the greatest importance to the overall cause.
The question, of course, why destroy a fifty thousand pound epic when you could combine two epics without losing any credibility and at the same time please an intelligent audience with a masterpiece!
If you have to squash or destroy a good film after the war in the process of something that is very wrong or else given credit to other nations or nations of other peoples, besides your own, is that it! A further course of events would explain what I have just written, my writing is just like Buchenwald which had a veil hanging over it!!!!
My further explorations now found me caught in the underground tunnels near the V2's and it was here that I now met with what appeared to be another member of the S.S. - this time I had a completely different experience from what I had encountered when I had been beaten for another infraction. This man was completely different in character - the contrast was so great that I was left wondering whether he was one of us or just monitoring the place after the bombing.
It seemed to me that he was trying to hide just as much as I was!! Possibly he could have been disguised as an S.S. and not concerned about me or what I was doing down there at all! He had the character of a gentleman, with class, and appeared to be genuinely concerned about my welfare. He advised me that it would be better for me not to hide down there and left me unscathed - I never saw him again after that either!
S.O.S. were operating on the inside now, taken from emigrant settlers from the U.S.A., with German origins. Anyway, no further communications with me were tried - the incident I had experienced in the underground tunnels appeared to be purely coincidental in nature!
If the man in the tunnel had been an S.S. officer things were really on the turn. However, their blend was such that they could hardly change based on their oaths and so called honors of the new knights class. To me, he didn't seem to belong to the lower echelons or brutal bullies we knew but appeared to be an aristocratic in his bearing!!!
In the camp events were rapidly changing now. Criminals were completely eradicated from our ranks and the "politicals" were taking over to be Capos."
To be continued ...
"A combination of planned and unplanned actions now came into play which helped hasten the downfall of Hitler. The information that had recently been passed on to us was essential intelligence in relation to the V2's and V3's as well as the military installations for jet planes down in the valley. There were enough weapons to have a ball. "Peenemunde" was a baby in comparison. Nevertheless, it was only Peenemunde that was ever mentioned out of it all!!!
Like most other concentration camps, Buchenwald is only known for its atrocities - no recommendations for the actions and deeds mentioned in this narration, which I believe were of the greatest importance to the overall cause.
The question, of course, why destroy a fifty thousand pound epic when you could combine two epics without losing any credibility and at the same time please an intelligent audience with a masterpiece!
If you have to squash or destroy a good film after the war in the process of something that is very wrong or else given credit to other nations or nations of other peoples, besides your own, is that it! A further course of events would explain what I have just written, my writing is just like Buchenwald which had a veil hanging over it!!!!
My further explorations now found me caught in the underground tunnels near the V2's and it was here that I now met with what appeared to be another member of the S.S. - this time I had a completely different experience from what I had encountered when I had been beaten for another infraction. This man was completely different in character - the contrast was so great that I was left wondering whether he was one of us or just monitoring the place after the bombing.
It seemed to me that he was trying to hide just as much as I was!! Possibly he could have been disguised as an S.S. and not concerned about me or what I was doing down there at all! He had the character of a gentleman, with class, and appeared to be genuinely concerned about my welfare. He advised me that it would be better for me not to hide down there and left me unscathed - I never saw him again after that either!
S.O.S. were operating on the inside now, taken from emigrant settlers from the U.S.A., with German origins. Anyway, no further communications with me were tried - the incident I had experienced in the underground tunnels appeared to be purely coincidental in nature!
If the man in the tunnel had been an S.S. officer things were really on the turn. However, their blend was such that they could hardly change based on their oaths and so called honors of the new knights class. To me, he didn't seem to belong to the lower echelons or brutal bullies we knew but appeared to be an aristocratic in his bearing!!!
In the camp events were rapidly changing now. Criminals were completely eradicated from our ranks and the "politicals" were taking over to be Capos."
To be continued ...
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