Re: Camp Delta kids torture claims
You obviously know nothing about sick people, history, or the face of evil. Brush on a little history of warfare before you go off on these rants.
Here is what German prison camps were like holding Russian prisoners:
**Conditions in the prison camps themselves were similarly atrocious. “There were no barracks or permanent housing. The camps were simply open areas fenced off with barbed wire. The prisoners had to lie in the sun, then in mud, and in the fall – with temperatures as low as minus 30 degreees centigrade – faced the possibility of freezing to death.” (The German Army and Genocide, p. 142.) A Hungarian tank officer who visited one enclosure described it as follows: “Behind wire there were tens of thousands of Russian prisoners. Many were on the point of expiring. Few could stand on their feet. Their faces were dried up and their eyes sunk deep into their sockets. Hundreds were dying every day, and those who had any strength left dumped them in a vast pit” (Werth, Russia At War, pp. 635-36). Cannibalism was rife, and deliberate, according to Dallin: “German policy had caused, or at the very least had tolerated, the degradation of the prisoners – and then held it up to its own people as something to be reviled, as something typical of a sub-human who could never be like Western man” **(Dallin, German Rule in Russia, p. 415).
In his epic masterpiece The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes the scene in one POW camp, with “the evening mist hoverng above a swampy meadow encircled by barbed wire; a multitude of bonfires; and, around the bonfires, beings who had once been Russian officers but had now become beastlike creatures who gnawed the bones of dead horses, who baked patties from potato rinds, who smoked manure and were all swarming with lice. Not all these two-legged creatures had died as yet. Not all of them had lost the capacity for intelligible speech, and one could see in the crimson reflections of the bonfires how a belated understanding was dawning on those faces which were descending to the Neanderthal.” (Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Harper & Row, 1973], p. 218.)
Mass death through starvation was anticipated well in advance by Nazi military planners. “Daily rations amounted to only one-fourth of what a normal person needed to survive. These meager rations resulted from the decision reached before the campaign, i.e. that providing food for the Wehrmacht and for Germany had the highest priority. ‘As a result, millions of people will surely starve,’ was the terse conclusion formulated at a conference of German State Secretaries in Berlin in May 1941.” (The German Army and Genocide, p. 142.)
Despite the eventual shift from outright extinction to slave labour, which also swept up hundreds of thousands of Soviet women, “maltreatment continued … to the very end,” with “instances of cruel atrocities … reported as late as the winter of 1944-5” (Bartov, The Eastern Front, p. 110). “Many [prisoners] were shot,” writes Alexander Werth, “many died in concentration camps during the later stages of the war, … [and] some were even used for vivisectionist and other ‘scientific’ experiments” (Russia At War, p. 635).
How many died?
Because the targeted group consisted for the most part of soldiers in a bureaucratically-run modern army, the gendercide against Soviet prisoners-of-war is one of the best-documented of these case studies. Daniel Goldhagen, in Hitler’s Willing Executioners (p. 290), gives the astonishing figure of “2.8 million young, healthy Soviet POWs” killed by the Germans, “mainly by starvation … in less than eight months” of 1941-42,.
http://www.gendercide.org/case_soviet.html