If God ever cries..

Birkenau, dividing the prisoners into two groups, death to the left, life to the right.

This blog will be very different and yet it is directed to the fans of Michael, or at least some of them. The ones that preaches respect and craves for the truth.
I watched a video some days ago and I must say it affected me in a huge way. And I don’t mean a positive way.

The video was about Hitler making fun of a hoax video maker, that is up for ridiculing on YouTube these days. Making fun of others, bullying others is serious enough and shouldn’t occur among grown up people, but the methods used here is so pathetic.  I will show you the video in the bottom of this blog.

Some MJ fans commented and said this video was “f*cking epic” or “the funniest thing” they had ever seen.

Excuse me, but since when did Hitler and all the events he stood for become a joke?

Furthermore as a MJ fan it is almost a default setting that you have to talk about and ask for respect. Respect for Michael, respect for his legacy, respect from the media, respect from the public and respect for one another. Where is the respect for the 11 million people Hitler murdered, and the descendants to these deceased Europeans ? What happened to the “All for L.O.V.E.” concept widely used among these fans?

I will take the liberty of telling you a little about what went on in some of the death camps Hitler facilitated, during 1940 – 1945. A very quick history lesson. It seems as if some of you might not know about these events.

Auschwitz II – Birkenau

Auschwitz I was the biggest of the death camps, located in the south of Poland. There were several other extermination camps like e.g. Bergen-Belsen or Treblinka, but I will focus on some of the Auschwitz camps.  When the prisoners exited the trains, that they were transported on (those that survived these transports), they very often walked directly to the gas chamber. Of course they didn’t know that in advance, they were told they were going to get a much needed shower. Anyone that was not useful was picked out in the crowd and sent there. Old, children, sick, weak..

Children on their way to the gas chamber at Birkenau

The women’s hair was shaved off and later used to make various textiles to sell, like rugs. When the camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in 1945, 7000 kg of hair was found and that was only a fraction of the total. Gold teeth and fillings were pulled out of the mouths of the dead bodies with pliers, and sometimes, skin with interesting tattoos were removed, treated like leather, and crafted into items such as lampshades.. They used other prisoners to do the dirty work such as shaving, cremating and handling the bodies.

A greek jew who was occupied with dragging the bodies from the gas chamber to the furnaces tells this: “We found people clinging to one another, everybody desperate trying to breathe, even though it meant crawling on top of all the dead. The easiest way to get them to the crematorium, was to use a walking stick around theirs necks and drag them. Because of all the old people who were killed, we never ran out of walking sticks.”

Birkenau victim

Doing this kind of work without making trouble, was very often the difference between dying or surviving in these camps. In Auschwitz I the ashes of the Christians (or some others) was put in urns and sold to the families for 200 Mark. But only if you were a Christian.

When the first Auschwitz camp became too crowded a second one was built, only 2 kilometers away in 1942. Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, as it was called, was installed with the most effective extermination system to date, since the gassings in Auschwitz was so successful. Birkenau could host 120.000 prisoners.
To save time, they had the railway tracks lead directly into the camp site. That way the prisoners only had to cross the tracks to get to the gas chambers. Josef Mengele, known as The Angel of Death, was operating in Birkenau, where he performed some cruel experiments on twins, like surgery without  anesthesia. He was also the one to pick the living and the dead from the just arrived crowds of prisoners from Europe. Death to the left, life to the right, 80% of these he pointed directly to the left to the gas chambers. He loved his job, and was very often seen whistling a piece of classical music, while directing people to the right or left.

1.1 million people died in Birkenau in the 3 years it was operational. That is a daily average of a little more than a 1000 people a day.

Those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, or medical experiments. But even so, some managed to survive these camps. One of them later became my aunt by marrying my uncle.

Lining up for the gas chamber at Auschwitz

These are the wounds of Europe, the lost parents, brothers, sisters or grandparents. 6 million jews and approx 5 million others. They must never be forgotten.
Making fun of Hitler is tasteless, immature and pathetic, because although he might seem like a funny character to some, he represents something so cruel, that most people today lack imagination to picture it. It is called Holocaust.
Some will probably say; “well so many years passed, so now we can do this.” In that case I will have to ask back; when is it then appropriate to make pathetic jokes about the people dying in WTC? How many years will have to pass before that is legit?

The answer is; never. It will never be appropriate.

Just recently an muslim Imam visited Auschwitz, and he later told that seeing the camps changed his perception, of what happened. He also said; “If God ever cries, it will be over this. For 6 years people worked on killing others as effectively as possible.”

Making fun of the most tragic moment in human history is simply not okay.
The second world war was very real and very scary, but for some of you it is probably only something you have seen on film.
This is the video that made me write this blog: EDIT: The channel has been closed by the user, so the video is no longer available. This is the same video, just different subtitling: http://t.co/12GHFIp

I have some more pictures you should see, click on them to enlarge. All the pictures in this blog is bigger than shown here.

A shed full of bodies at Birkenau found by the Soviet Red Army in 1945

Open air burning of bodies when capacity of the furnaces was to small

Some of the furnaces in Auschwitz I

Gas chamber in Auschwitz I

Some of the shoes found in Auschwitz I

2000 kg hair from Auschwitz I on display

Victims of Bergen-Belsen, another death camp

Two women pointed to the left at Birkenau

The total death toll for the Holocaust / death camps are estimated to look like this:
Jews     5.9 million
Soviet POWs     2–3 million
Ethnic Poles     1.8–2 million
Romani     220,000–1,500,000
Disabled     200,000–250,000
Freemasons     80,000
Slovenes     20,000–25,000
Homosexuals     5,000–15,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses     2,500–5,000

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