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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts) Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:31 PM Jun 2018

This reminds me of the "model" concentration camp the NAZIS showed to visitors

Succumbing to pressure following the deportation of Danish Jews to Theresienstadt, the Germans permitted representatives from the Danish Red Cross and the International Red Cross to visit in June 1944. It was all an elaborate hoax. The Germans intensified deportations from the ghetto shortly before the visit, and the ghetto itself was "beautified." Gardens were planted, houses painted, and barracks renovated. The Nazis staged social and cultural events for the visiting dignitaries. Once the visit was over, the Germans resumed deportations from Theresienstadt, which did not end until October 1944.

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This reminds me of the "model" concentration camp the NAZIS showed to visitors (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 OP

Potemkin villages kimbutgar Jun 2018 #1

Theresienstadt was worse DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 #2

Yikes you're right that's even worst kimbutgar Jun 2018 #4

The 1980's miniseries "War And Remembrance" used Teresienstadt as a horrifying setting Aristus Jun 2018 #3

It was "featured" in the movie Playing For Time. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 #7

I'll have to take a look at that. Aristus Jun 2018 #10

Mea culpa. It was Auschwitz. DemocratSinceBirth Jun 2018 #11

Still probably worth a look. Aristus Jun 2018 #12

Me too. All the more need for people to shine a light. nolabear Jun 2018 #5

K&R, last time children taken from their parents as a no exception policy was Hitler uponit7771 Jun 2018 #6

Yes, like Theresienstadt. Lucca2 Jun 2018 #8

Trump is said to be an avid student of Nazi tactics C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #9

Here's part of the movie they made showing all COLGATE4 Jun 2018 #13

kimbutgar

(21,290 posts)

1. Potemkin villages

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:33 PM

Jun 2018

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,719 posts)

2. Theresienstadt was worse

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:34 PM

Jun 2018

Potemkin Villages were designed to give the impression to foreign visitors ordinary Russians were living much better than they did. Theresienstadt was designed to give the false impression Jews weren't being exterminated.