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Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

by montrose on 7/14/18, 2:41 PM with 30 comments

• by NeedMoreTea on 7/14/18, 7:54 PM

  I thought I recognised the name on the main gallery site. Witold Pilecki[0] was an astonishingly brave Polish cavalry officer who volunteered to be incarcerated in Auschwitz[1]. They wanted to get intelligence out and if possible organise resistance in the camp. He escaped after over 2 years, and volunteered to fight during the Warsaw uprising.

  Edit: He survived that but was executed after the war by the Poles after a show trial and conviction for espionage. He'd been collecting evidence of Soviet atrocities in Poland.

  [0] https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz

• by swampthinker on 7/14/18, 3:40 PM

  Anyone know where you can find the other photos?

• by mgkimsal on 7/14/18, 3:52 PM

  what's the silver/metal thing on peoples' heads in the left side photo?

• by davidw on 7/14/18, 3:58 PM

  > Photo of 14-year-old Auschwitz inmate Czesława Kwoka. The girl was murdered with a phenol injection into the heart in 1943

  There were not "very fine people on both sides".

• by adamnemecek on 7/14/18, 4:12 PM

  This will be very controversial but lately I've been wondering why is it that Germany's atrocities are still talked about however similar atrocities committed by the Allies are ignored.

  Let's take Britains rule in India, particularly the Bengal famine of 1943 that killed 2-3 million people (as it happened around the same time as concentration camps).

  https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/

  Let's not even get into Belgium rule in Congo.

  Is this just a "History is Written By the Victors”? I'm not trying to vindicate Hitler, but what's up with this?