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Mauthausen   Theuninck   186   steps   concentration camp

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 25th Mar 2024 14:13

It seems to add to the horror of that vile place, familiar to students of Nazi murderous tyranny, that it existed, as I recall,
in a land like Austria! As a young man I knew the famous books by Lord Russell of Liverpool: The Scourge of The Swastika
and The Knights of Bushido - describing Nazi and Japanese
war crimes. Chilling accounts of how bestial mankind could be.

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John Coopey

Mon 25th Mar 2024 11:33

I was not aware of The Stairs of Death, Jan. Thankyou for this simple and enormously powerful lesson. “Lest we forget” indeed.

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