Former Nazi camps keep memories alive, 65 years on FEATURE 04/28/2010

Former Nazi camps keep memories alive, 65 years on

FEATURE 04/28/2010 ORANIENBURG — Peter Josep Snep still talks at schools about the horrors he experienced at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but 65 years after its liberation he is one of a dwindling number of survivors. “The schoolteachers tell me that normally the kids won’t keep still for five minutes,” the frail 89-year-old Dutchman says. “When I tell them my story, they don’t make a peep for an hour.” Although not an extermination camp devoted to murder on an industrial scale, all of which were outside Germany in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen were still places of unspeakable horror. Just north of Berlin, it covered an area the size of 800 football pitches, imprisoning 200,000 persons, real or imagined opponents of Nazism from within Germany and all over Europe, between 1936 and 1945..... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100428com3.html

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