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Hamish
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| hubei_canuk wrote: |
| Anyway, my dear old friend DID survive Treblinka as he was a doctor. That skill kept him alive until the camp was liberated. |
I thought all the doctors at Treblinka, and other death camps as well, were S.S.
Please tell us more about your friend.
As for the rest of your rant, take a Valium.
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hubei_canuk
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Location: hubei china
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Hamish
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| hubei_canuk wrote: |
No you are wrong about the doctors having to be SS. My friend was a Polish Jew. Sorry i can't confirm this by quoting any authoritative history books.
My "history book" was my good friend and mentor who died about 10 years ago. He was actually in at least two camps, having been tranferred as the allies came closer. Finally he was liberated on the train between camps. He once said he had enough poison to kill many nazis and was very tempted but he instead killed his own patients with it to end their suffering. |
I am sorry about the loss of your friend. I hope it was possible for him to have some years of peace and happiness after the war. I also know what it is to lose an old friend and mentor. Please accept my sincere condolences. It is because of the real, wholesale suffering and death that a place like Treblinka, and trains to there, actualized that I reacted as I did to your suggestion that Chinese trains are currently less safe than the Treblinka Express was in its' day. I thought, and still think, that the comparison was insensitive to the suffering of those who rode that hideous German death train.
You and I disagree about the current state of health of this country. I do not agree that there is evidence at this moment that justifies doom and gloom. SARS is, in so far as we have any information to now know, a really bad cold that kills something less than 4% of the people who get the disease. The possibility of contracting SARS can be substantially reduced by simple hygienic methods such as those described in the memo you have shown us.
None of us know what the future holds. I am just pointing out that the currently available data from the WHO does not, in my opinion, justify panic.
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