Comments on: Dachau: Something to Think About http://rovingtheworld.com/2009/06/dachau-something-to-think-about/ Four Guys on a Journey Around the World Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:25:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Geseke http://rovingtheworld.com/2009/06/dachau-something-to-think-about/comment-page-1/#comment-212795 Geseke Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:32:47 +0000 http://rovingtheworld.com/?p=187#comment-212795 As recently as 56 years ago would have been 1953. At that time, there were 5,000 ethnic Germans, from the Sudetanland in what is now the Czech Republic, living in the barracks at Dachau. They had been expelled from their homes according to the plans made at the Potsdam Conference after the war; 12 to 15 million ethnic Germans were expelled from German land given to Poland and from the former Czechoslovakia. From 2 to 6 million of them died as a result. Handicapped people were not sent to Dachau. The name of the second Dachau commandant was Theodor Eicke; he replaced the first commandant who was arrested for murder when some of the prisoners died after being punished. There is proof that 90 Soviet POWs were shot at Dachau on Hitler’s orders because they were Communist Commissars. There is no proof that 4,000 Soviet POWs were killed. Some say the alleged number was 6,000. The results of the medical experiments done at Dachau for the Luftwaffe were confiscated by the American liberators and used in America to save the lives of downed pilots. Dachau was liberated on April 29, 12945. In May 1945, there were 2226 prisoners that died of typhus after the camp was liberated and 196 more that died of typhus in June 1945. None of the prisoners died after the war from abuses suffered in the camp. The typhus epidemic was stopped because America had access to DDT and a vaccine which the Germans didn’t have. As recently as 56 years ago would have been 1953. At that time, there were 5,000 ethnic Germans, from the Sudetanland in what is now the Czech Republic, living in the barracks at Dachau. They had been expelled from their homes according to the plans made at the Potsdam Conference after the war; 12 to 15 million ethnic Germans were expelled from German land given to Poland and from the former Czechoslovakia. From 2 to 6 million of them died as a result.

Handicapped people were not sent to Dachau.

The name of the second Dachau commandant was Theodor Eicke; he replaced the first commandant who was arrested for murder when some of the prisoners died after being punished.

There is proof that 90 Soviet POWs were shot at Dachau on Hitler’s orders because they were Communist Commissars. There is no proof that 4,000 Soviet POWs were killed. Some say the alleged number was 6,000.

The results of the medical experiments done at Dachau for the Luftwaffe were confiscated by the American liberators and used in America to save the lives of downed pilots.

Dachau was liberated on April 29, 12945.

In May 1945, there were 2226 prisoners that died of typhus after the camp was liberated and 196 more that died of typhus in June 1945. None of the prisoners died after the war from abuses suffered in the camp. The typhus epidemic was stopped because America had access to DDT and a vaccine which the Germans didn’t have.

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