"At the Buchenwald Camp, the old, the young, and the weak had to
join the others early every morning at stone quarrying, cutting out,
lifting, and moving heavy stones under the lashes of brutal foremen.
Late in the evening, exhausted from overwork, they were welcomed by
brutes on both sides of the gates with whips, who unmercifully beat
them over their faces and bodies. Relatives were not allowed to visit
them. Many of them committed suicide by taking hold of charged high
tension wires surrounding the camp.
"They all had a chance to leave the country, even those in the camps.
But most European nations, in fact most of our national governments,
all over the world, heartlessly closed their eyes, ears, and their
consciences, to the most extreme human exigency of the times; they
closed their frontiers and doors on them, denying them inviolable
asylum, with the exception of a certain few, restricting them to their
quota numbers.
"Our Earth nations remained neutral, have the citizens of these nations
raised any concerted general protest of indignation? Not even the many
members of our so-called humane or animal-rescue leagues made any howls
about it, as they certainly would have, had the Germans inflicted on
their hogs such 'cultured' tortures before the kill.
"During the American Revolutionary War, Haym Solomon, a Jew, gave
his fortune to help save its independence, but many supposedly good
American Christians tried their utmost to prevent the saving of
defenseless babies and children.
"The American Legion, The Daughters of the American Revolution, and
various labor unions, the majority of whose members were Christians,
passed resolutions to keep the door closed. Congressmen, thinking of
votes, not of lives, were unwilling to liberalize the immigration
policy. A group calling itself 'The Christian Mothers' carried on a
national campaign to prevent the bringing of Jewish children to this
country. As a consequence children who might have been saved by some
display of Christian charity died in concentration camps, in gas
chambers, in crematories.[38]
"The German war against Poland enormously increased the number of these
unfortunates from the conquered countries. Within nine months Germany
had closed tight all borders upon every one of them, even the richest;
and after taking away all their property, were turned into a national
wholesale human charnel slaughter house, where they were methodically
put in death traps in their camps, including all women and children.
World nations refused to harbor them, so the Nazis massacred them.
"Approximately a half million of the best looking young daughters,
wives, and mothers from the ages of 14 to 25, the flower of the most
beautiful Jewish women, were first selected and forcibly taken from
their homes to be compulsorily incarcerated in brothels. Those that
survived at the end of their usefulness, diseased and weakened, were
driven to their final doom and deliverance into the gas houses.
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