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   Greg Carr to Susan Cohen   
   Re: Majdanek   
   18 Feb 23 05:49:14   
   
   From: gregcarrdrunk@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 11:18:23 PM UTC-5, Susan Cohen wrote:   
   > Majdanek    
   >    
   > It all started in Majdanek. Majdanek is the name of a German    
   > concentration camp on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin. It    
   > was the first of the large German camps to be occupied by Allied    
   > troops – in the summer of 1944. It was the first camp that was widely    
   > reported in the Allied press.    
   >    
   > During a press conference on August 25, 1944, the Soviets claimed    
   > around two million victims for this camp. About a year later, during    
   > the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, the So    
   > viets were still claiming a death toll of up to 1.5 million. Many of    
   > these victims are said to    
   > have been killed in seven different gas chambers.    
      
   Which was a load of horse shit. During the course of the war, maybe about 100   
   died; and those can be attributed to natural causes.   
      
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