New book coming out on Ravensbruck: Horror of Nazi death camp for women's shocking medical exper...

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903887/Nazi-death-camp-WOMEN-s-shocking-medical-experiments-injected-prisoners-petrol-syphilis.html

By SARAH HELM FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 18:51 EST, 9 January 2015 | UPDATED: 20:36 EST, 9 January 2015

I'm not posting any of the photos in this OP.

50,000 women murdered at German camp; 2,500 gassed in one weekend

'Undesirables'at the camp included gipsies, political prisoners, Resistance fighters and petty criminals

Women 'rabbits' were injected with STI in heinous medical experiments

Red Army soldiers raped many survivors who saw the camp's liberation

Sarah Helm's new book features testimonies from prisoners


Katharina Waitz stared at the 15ft wall topped by barbed wire, took a deep breath and, undaunted, began to climb the last leg to freedom.

She was one of the handful of inmates of Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women, ever to break out, and it took the ultimate in daring high-wire acts for her to get away.

A trapeze artist by profession, the crime that consigned her to this grimmest of places was simply that she was a gipsy and therefore classified by Hitler’s Third Reich as a degenerate whose very existence polluted the pure Aryan gene pool.

Twice this brave young woman tried to escape and was caught, spending months of torture in the camp’s punishment block.

FULL story at link.

[NaturalHigh]

1. I don't think I could ever read this book.

As important as it is for this to be remembered, I just don't think I could stomach reading it.

[smirkymonkey]

2. K&R!

This is horrifying. I think people should know about it so that it never happens again. Thank you for posting!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. It's the kind of thing that makes me agree with Mark Twain reg. humanity. nt