Auschwitz post from Homer

Between 1.3-1.5 million people were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz -- more than 90% were Jews. The other ten percent were Poles, Soviet Prisoners of War, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals and others.The vast majority of the victims --who came from both Western and Eastern Europe including Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countriesMost of the people actually never really entered the camp, but just crossed it on the way to the gas chambers.Auschwitz was surrounded by high electric barbed wire fences, which were guarded by SS soldiers armed with machine guns and rifles. Some Holocaust survivors have said that not only did the barbed-wire surrounding Auschwitz tremble and howl, but also the tortured earth itself moaned with the voices of the victims.In March 1942 trains carrying Jews began arriving daily. Sometimes several trains would arrive on the same day, each carrying one thousand or more human beings coming from the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as well as from Western and Southern European countries.They only had two cremation slots for all the millions that were murdered here? They must have been kept busy.Jack Oran, a Holocaust survivor, relates:"Everyone worked so hard, got beaten up…and came back to the camp -- the exhaustion alone pushed him to the bunk to lie down and sleep throughout the night and get enough strength so that s/he might be able to do that again tomorrow. …In the morning, sixty percent of the six people [in the bunk] did not wake up. The other forty percent went over the pockets of the dead people to find a piece of bread…The hygienic condition was very, very poor in that period. I remember that I searched a dead body in the bunk and I found a piece of bread. That piece of bread was crawling with lice and you shook them off the bread and put it in your mouth and ate it. We all were crawling with lice. Taking a shower was not an option. To get out in the morning, to walk toward the barrack where there is water, running water &endash; you didn't want to walk through mud. If you walked through the mud you probably lost a shoe and then you had to go barefoot. So it would be damned if I do and damned if I don't. Those were the conditions."To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz.· Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden..Between savagery and killings, savouring the simple pleasures of life:Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, and SS auxiliaries relaxing at a recreation lodge near the camp.In the first phase of his experiments, Mengele subjected pairs twins and people with physical handicaps to special medical examinations that could be carried out on the living organism. Usually painful and exhausting, these examinations lasted for hours and were a difficult experience for starved, terrified children (for such were the majority of the twins). The subjects were photographed, plaster casts were made of their teeth and jaws, and their fingerprints and toeprints were taken. As soon as the examinations of a given pair of twins or dwarf were finished, Mengele ordered them killed by phenol injection so that he could go on to the next phase of his experiments, the comparative analysis of internal organs at autopsy. "Scientifically" interesting anatomical specimens were preserved and shipped to the Institute in Berlin-Dahlem for more detailed examination.

Buna link from Homer

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Buna

The largest Auschwitz sub-camp, called Buna, was located here from 1942 to 1945. The Nazis sent thousands of prisoners from various countries, the majority of them Jewish, to Buna (there were approximately 10,000 prisoners in this camp in 1944). A significant proportion of them died because of arduous slave labor, starvation, savage mistreatment, and executions. Those who were unable to go on working fell victim to selection and were taken to their deaths in the Birkenau concentration camp gas chambers.

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"Forget You Not"™: Auschwitz-Birkenau
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An Historic PhotographicDocumentation of the Extermination Process at Auschwitz-Birkenau:
An SS has the woman (whose hair is covered in the tradition of an Orthodox Jewish wife) with her infant child to join those being sent to the crematoria. We also can see a man that is standing between the columns missing his pants and one shoe. This was a common ocurrence in the overcrowded boxcars. On the left stand inmates in striped camp clothing. The main gate to Birkenau Camp under which the train pass is at the rear left of this historic photograph.
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Photo Credit: Yad Vashem, The Auschwitz Album

PREAMBLE.
What Was Auschwitz?
Auschwitz, located in Oswiecim outside of Cracow, Poland, has become a symbol of the Holocaust. One of the main reasons that Nazi Germany established the camp there was because it was a central intersection of roads and railways. Before the Second World War, Jews living in Oswiecim, who were often artisans or merchants, constituted approximately half of this small town's population. After the Holocaust, it may be argued that Oswiecim will forever be overshadowed by Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers.

Double Not only has Auschwitz become a symbol of the Holocaust due to its geographical size, but also because Jews were sent there from all over Europe to undergo selection and to be systematically murdered in gas chambers. In addition, we have many detailed testimonies of Holocaust survivors who survived the camp.
We say and write "Auschwitz," but we actually mean a torture center, a terror that we cannot possibly conceive, the essence of evil and horror. Yet, Auschwitz was not another planet, but a huge complex built by human beings to murder other human beings in the cruelest industrialized manner.
Auschwitz was surrounded by high electric barbed wire fences, which were guarded by SS soldiers armed with machine guns and rifles. Some Holocaust survivors have said that not only did the barbed-wire surrounding Auschwitz tremble and howl, but also the tortured earth itself moaned with the voices of the victims.
In March 1942 trains carrying Jews began arriving daily. Sometimes several trains would arrive on the same day, each carrying one thousand or more human beings coming from the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as well as from Western and Southern European countries.
What Happened at Auschwitz?
In March 1942 trains carrying Jews began arriving daily. Sometimes several trains would arrive on the same day, each carrying one thousand or more human beings coming from the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as well as from Western and Southern European countries.
Between 1.3-1.5 million people were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz -- more than 90% were Jews. The other ten percent were Poles, Soviet Prisoners of War, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals and others. The vast majority of the victims --who came from both Western and Eastern Europe including Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countries-- were unaware of their destination and of their fate. They were transported like animals in cattle-cars and arrived in a state of total collapse to the camp. Most of the people actually never really entered the camp, but just crossed it on the way to the gas chambers.
The dehumanized minority often became registered prisoners with shaved heads in striped uniforms. Jews chosen for slave labor were stripped of everything, including outward differentiation between male and female. Prisoners' personal identities were taken mainly by the act of tattooing their arms with numbers -- replacing their personal names.
How did prisoners endure such insurmountable conditions on a daily basis?
For example, Jack Oran, a Holocaust survivor, relates:
"Everyone worked so hard, got beaten up…and came back to the camp -- the exhaustion alone pushed him to the bunk to lie down and sleep throughout the night and get enough strength so that s/he might be able to do that again tomorrow. …In the morning, sixty percent of the six people [in the bunk] did not wake up. The other forty percent went over the pockets of the dead people to find a piece of bread…The hygienic condition was very, very poor in that period. I remember that I searched a dead body in the bunk and I found a piece of bread. That piece of bread was crawling with lice and you shook them off the bread and put it in your mouth and ate it. We all were crawling with lice. Taking a shower was not an option. To get out in the morning, to walk toward the barrack where there is water, running water &endash; you didn't want to walk through mud. If you walked through the mud you probably lost a shoe and then you had to go barefoot. So it would be damned if I do and damned if I don't. Those were the conditions."
Although the Nazis terrorized and dehumanized prisoners in Auschwitz, as well as in other concentration camps under their control, many Jews attempted to retain their dignity and humanity.
Even in unendurable conditions, people sought support, cooperation and friendship. For instance, Ovadiah Baruch, a young Jewish prisoner who was deported to Auschwitz from Greece, notes that the support of his friends helped him survive. He states:
"During the death marches [from Auschwitz] we were three friends, Yom Tov Eli, Michael and I. We were connected heart and soul. Throughout the whole time we were prisoners in Auschwitz we stayed in close contact….During the death marches, Michael developed dysentery. He was so weak that he could barely continue to walk, and he begged us to go on without him. Yom Tov Eli and I insisted that we would carry him and support him as best as we could."
Yad Vashem Archives
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Crematorium II can be seen in the back of this photograph.Many of the Jews of this photograph will end up there after the quick selection to be killed.
Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp."
In her postwar testimony, Olga Albogen, a Holocaust survivor, relates to her family's arrival in Auschwitz in the following way, "…We didn't even say goodbye to Mother and the little ones. We just had some food yet from home and I gave it to my mother and said, "We'll see you tonight." And that was it and I never saw them again. It was such a commotion there in Auschwitz… So many people…And when they emptied the wagons, thousands and thousands and trains kept on coming from all over Europe, not just Hungary. It was just unbelievable."
Entire families often arrived in Auschwitz, but soon after their arrival, they were brutally broken apart. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jews were thrown out of the cattle cars without their belongings and forced to make two separate lines, men and women/children. SS medical personnel, including the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, conducted selections among these lines, sending most victims to the gas chambers where they were usually killed and burned on the same day. Mengele and his colleagues also conducted so-called "medical experiments" on human beings in the camp. --Yad Vashem Archives..

AUSCHWITZ:THE CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP.
After the occupation of Poland by the Third Reich, the name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz by the Germans, and became the name of the camp as well.
Auschwitz functioned throughout its existence as a concentration camp, and over time became the largest such Nazi camp.
In the first period of the existence of the camp, it was primarily Poles who were sent here by the German occupation authorities.
These were people regarded as particularly dangerous: the elite of the Polish people, their political, civic, and spiritual leaders, members of the intelligentsia, cultural and scientific figures, and also members of the resistance movement, officers, and so on.
Over time, the Nazis also began to send groups of prisoners from other occupied countries to Auschwitz.
Beginning in 1942, Jews whom the SS physicians classified as fit for labor were also registered in the camp. From among all the people deported to Auschwitz, approximately 400,000 people were registered and placed in the camp and its sub-camps [200,000 Jews, more than 140,000 Poles, about 20,000 Romanies ("Gypsies") from various countries, more than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and more than 10,000 prisoners of other nationalities].
Over 50% of the registered prisoners died as a result of starvation, labor that exceeded their physical capacity, the terror that raged in the camp, executions, the inhuman living conditions, disease and epidemics, punishment, torture, and criminal medical experiments.
Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well.
Over the years, the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts:
Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. It also had over 40 sub-camps.
At first, Poles were imprisoned and died in the camp. Afterwards, Soviet prisoners of war, Romanies ("Gypsies"), and people of other nationalities were also incarcerated there. Beginning in 1942, the camp became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which was committed against the European Jews as part of Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of that people.
"On arrival at the "Cottage," they were told to undress. At first they went calmly into the rooms where they were supposed to be disinfected. But some of them showed signs of alarm, and spoke of death by suffocation and of annihilation. A sort of panic set in at once. Immediately all the Jews still outside were pushed into the chambers, and the doors were screwed shut. With subsequent transports the difficult individuals were picked out early on and most carefully supervised. At the first signs of unrest, those responsible were unobtrusively led behind the building and killed with a small-calibre gun that was inaudible to the others. "
(From the testimony of Rudolph Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz)
The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival. At the end of the war, in an effort to remove the traces of the crimes they had committed, the SS began dismantling and razing the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, as well as burning documents.
Prisoners capable of marching were evacuated into the depths of the Reich. Those who remained behind in the camp were liberated by Red Army soldiers on January 27, 1945.
Auschwitz survivors at liberation.January 27, 1945.
A July 2, 1947 act of the Polish parliament established the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the grounds of the two extant parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.


Fact Sheet Supplement:Vast labour and death camp killed up to 6,000 a day

Auschwitz I --Concentration Camp; Auschwitz II --Extermination Camp(Credit: Dutch Holocaust website <cympm.com> of Hans Vanderwerff and Sion Soeters.)

· German forces occupying Poland set up Auschwitz in 1940 as a labour camp for Polish prisoners, gradually expanding it into a vast labour and death camp;
· The complex contained three camps and at least 40 sub-camps, built outside the town of Oswiecim between 1940 and 1942;
· Auschwitz I was built for Polish political prisoners in June 1940;
Hungarian Jews lined up on the train platform, upon arrival, at Auschwitz II --Birkenau camp.Majority of them will be sent straight to the gas chambers.
· Auschwitz II - Birkenau, was built in October 1941. It held more than 100,000 prisoners and housed gas chambers capable of disposing of 2,000 people a day. By 1944 some 6,000 people a day were being killed;
· Auschwitz III - Monowitz, supplied forced labour for the nearby IG Farben plant, the company which made the Zyklon-B gas used in Nazi death camps;
· Minor articles printed in U.S. and European newspapers in the early 1940s attest perhaps that Allied countries were somewhat aware of the camp and the deaths occurring there, yet did nothing either further to investigate or to act.***
· In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children.
· Only an estimated 11 percent of Jewish children who were alive in 1933 survived the Holocaust.
· In total 90 percent of the Jewish population in Poland died --some 2.8 million people.
· Other groups who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Romanies ("Gypsies"), people with disabilities, homosexuals and prisoners of conscience or religious faith;
· The decision to kill Europe's Jews was formulated in late 1941, and Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 coordinated the apparatus of mass murder.
Birkenau
· Gassing with Zyklon B began in autumn 1941.
· A Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said "This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through."
· Most victims were murdered in six extermination camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland was the largest and at least 1.1 million Jews were killed there before its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.
· An estimated 5.5 million other victims of Nazi atrocities -- labelled "enemies of the German state" -- included up to half a million Romanies ("Gypsies"), an estimated 10,000-15,000 homosexuals and 3 million non-Jewish Poles. Catholic and Protestant clergy also were sent to concentration camps as well as Jehovah's Witnesses.
· Some Holocaust researchers fault the wartime allies for not bombing the railway tracks that brought Jews from across Europe to the camps. Survivors lament what Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel describes as shameful indifference to mass murder.
· The United States and Britain garnered much intelligence about the camps, other historians say, but their priority was a total military defeat of Nazi Germany, not rescuing European Jews.
· The camp was liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27 1945;
· About 200,000 inmates of the camp between 1940 and 1945 survived;
· Out of a total of about 7,000 guards at Auschwitz, including 170 female staff (the most infamous was Irma Grese, the 20-year-old daughter of a dairyman), 750 were prosecuted and punished after Nazi Germany was defeated.
· More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of World War Two combined.
· About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz.
· A unit in Auschwitz where valuables snatched from incoming prisoners were kept was known as Canada, because Canada was thought to be a land of untold riches.
· Nazis at Auschwitz offered some non-Jewish female prisoners the option of 'light work'. As the women soon discovered, 'light work' meant prostitution.
· To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers.
· The train ramp was disguised to look like a regular railway station with signs, timetables and even a clock painted on the wall.
· Josef Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz often involved studies of twins. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other and carry out comparative autopsies.
· Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden.
· Some Jewish prisoners secretly wrote eye-witness accounts of the atrocities of the gas chambers and hid them in bottles or metal containers buried in the ground. A number of these accounts were discovered after the war.

1945, Auschwitz After Liberation: Burying the Dead
Sources: Reuters/Oxford Companion to the Second World War/BBC***United States National ArchivesAllies May Have Known of Holocaust Plans:.
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IG Farben had a factory, built in Dwory near Auschwitz because this place offered security from air-raids, the coal mines were near and the existence of Auschwitz concentration camp made it possible to receive as many cheap labourers as necessary. In April 1941, inmates of Auschwitz started building the Buna-plants in Dwory. At the beginning, the slave workers had to walk the whole distance from Auschwitz to their work-place, one direction measured seven kilometres. Due to difficulties with these transports, like exhaustion of the prisoners which led to a fall in of the work power, IG Farben decided to build a special camp for the prisoners working in the Buna plants: This subcamp of Auschwitz was settled in an evacuated village named Monowice. At the end of October 1942, the prisoners were transferred to Monowice. Until November 1943, the camp was called "Bunalager" (camp Buna) and belonged to Auschwitz concentration camp. Since November 1943, Monowice contained its own command headquarter Auschwitz III. It comprised 28 camps, which developed in the years 1942 to 1944 mainly in Silesia close to mines, metallurgical plants and other industrial zones. Those were the subcamps built between 1942 and 1944:
1942:
Goleschau (cement factory)
Jawischowitz (coal mine)
Chelmek (shoe factory)

1943:
"Eintrachthütte" (ironworks)
"Neu-Dachs" (electric power plant and pits were built)
"Janinagrube" and "Fürstengrube (coal mines)
Lagischa (building of a power station)

1944:
"Charlottegrube" in Ledziny and Rydultowy (coal mines)
"Günthergrube" (coal mine)
Bismarckhütte and Laurahütte (ironworks)
Gleiwitz I und III (ironworks and metallurgical plants)
Blechhammer
Trzebinia
Tschechowitz-Dziedzitz
Gleiwitz II (chemical factories)
Althammer (power plant)
Neustadt and Lichterwerde in "Reichsprotektorat" Bohemia and Moravia (textile factories)
Freudenthal in Bohemia and Moravia (food industry)
The working conditions in the subcamps were generally very hard. Though the industrial branches varied and the works were diverse, the prisoners had to work physically hard. Mostly they were assigned to building- or transport works. The conditions vere especially unsatisfactory by the lack of mechanisation in the plants. Also, they had no protective working clothes. In some subcamps, the SS used the inmates for the removal of blind bombs, which layed around on the areas of bombed industrial zones. Those who directly worked in the production had better conditions: they were not exposed to the weather, but employed on dangerous and physically hard jobs.
The treatment of prisoners in the subcamps varied according to the labour assignments the inmates worked in. Within building and digging works, the guards had more chances to beat the inmates than at machines which required a steady work-rhythm.
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A Layman's Guide to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Mengele's Children: The Twins of Auschwitz
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BUNA sub camp

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The largest Auschwitz sub-camp, called Buna, was located here from 1942 to 1945. The Nazis sent thousands of prisoners from various countries, the majority of them Jewish, to Buna (there were approximately 10,000 prisoners in this camp in 1944). A significant proportion of them died because of arduous slave labor, starvation, savage mistreatment, and executions. Those who were unable to go on working fell victim to selection and were taken to their deaths in the Birkenau concentration camp gas chambers.
In November 1943, the Buna sub-camp was transformed into a separate administrative unit designated Auschwitz III. It included other Auschwitz concentration camp sub-camps at industrial plants.
On January 18, 1945, the camp administration evacuated those prisoners who were able to march. They marched into the depths of Germany. The ill and weaker prisoners were left in the camp. Red Army soldiers liberated them on January 27, 1945.

zach bray link to buna

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Buna

The largest Auschwitz sub-camp, called Buna, was located here from 1942 to 1945. The Nazis sent thousands of prisoners from various countries, the majority of them Jewish, to Buna (there were approximately 10,000 prisoners in this camp in 1944). A significant proportion of them died because of arduous slave labor, starvation, savage mistreatment, and executions. Those who were unable to go on working fell victim to selection and were taken to their deaths in the Birkenau concentration camp gas chambers.
In November 1943, the Buna sub-camp was transformed into a separate administrative unit designated Auschwitz III. It included other Auschwitz concentration camp sub-camps at industrial plants.
On January 18, 1945, the camp administration evacuated those prisoners who were able to march. They marched into the depths of Germany. The ill and weaker prisoners were left in the camp. Red Army soldiers liberated them on January 27, 1945.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Buna.html

buna website found by k sever

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westons link to buna info

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tylers link to my facts

http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html

Auschwitz or known as man mad hell or hells gate. It was run by Rudolf Hoess the death dealer of Auschwitz. It was the worst of all the Nazi concentration camps and one of the biggest. It lasted five years until American and Russian troops freed the people held there. There were a lot of people held there during the Second World War.

Auschwitz Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...
9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."
Once Mengele's assistant rounded up 14 pairs of Gypsy twins during the night. Mengele placed them on his polished marble dissection table and put them to sleep. He then proceeded to inject chloroform into their hearts, killing them instantaneously. Mengele began dissecting and meticulously noting each and every piece of the twins' bodies.
Mengele supervised an operation by which two Gypsy children were sewn together to create Siamses twins. The hands of the children became badly infected where the veins had been resected. Often Mengele injected chemicals into the eyes of children in an attempt to change their eye color.
Mengele's special pathology lab was located next to the crematorium. He made experimental surgeries performed without anesthesia, transfusions of blood from one twin to another, isolation endurance, reaction to various stimuli. And injections with lethal germs, sex change operations, the removal of organs and limbs, incestuous impregnations ...

Auschwitz death camp

Auschwitz became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...
9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."

How the Auschwitz Death Camp was made

On April 27, 1940, Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of a new camp near Oswiecim, Poland (about 37 miles or 60 km west of Krakow). The Auschwitz Concentration Camp ("Auschwitz" is the German spelling of "Oswiecim") quickly became the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. By the time of its liberation, Auschwitz had grown to include three large camps and 45 sub-camps.

Auschwitz I (or "the Main Camp") was the original camp. This camp housed prisoners, was the location of medical experiments, and the site of Block 11 (a place of severe torture) and the Black Wall (a place of execution). At the entrance of Auschwitz I stood the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("work makes one free"). Auschwitz I also housed the Nazi staff that ran the entire camp complex.

Auschwitz Death and Consentration camp

Auschwitz, located in Oswiecim outside of Cracow, Poland, has become a symbol of the Holocaust. One of the main reasons that Nazi Germany established the camp there was because it was a central intersection of roads and railways. Before the Second World War, Jews living in Oswiecim, who were often artisans or merchants, constituted approximately half of this small town's population. After the Holocaust, it may be argued that Oswiecim will forever be overshadowed by Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers.
In March 1942 trains carrying Jews began arriving daily. Sometimes several trains would arrive on the same day, each carrying one thousand or more human beings coming from the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as well as from Western and Southern European countries. Between 1.3-1.5 million people were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz -- more than 90% were Jews. The other ten percent were Poles, Soviet Prisoners of War, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals and others. The vast majority of the victims --who came from both Western and Eastern Europe including Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countries-- were unaware of their destination and of their fate. They were transported like animals in cattle-cars and arrived in a state of total collapse to the camp. Most of the people actually never really entered the camp, but just crossed it on the way to the gas chambers.

After the occupation of Poland by the Third Reich, the name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz by the Germans, and became the name of the camp as well. Auschwitz functioned throughout its existence as a concentration camp, and over time became the largest such Nazi camp. In the first period of the existence of the camp, it was primarily Poles who were sent here by the German occupation authorities. These were people regarded as particularly dangerous: the elite of the Polish people, their political, civic, and spiritual leaders, members of the intelligentsia, cultural and scientific figures, and also members of the resistance movement, officers, and so on.

Over time, the Nazis also began to send groups of prisoners from other occupied countries to Auschwitz. Beginning in 1942, Jews whom the SS physicians classified as fit for labor were also registered in the camp. From among all the people deported to Auschwitz, approximately 400,000 people were registered and placed in the camp and its sub-camps (200,000 Jews, more than 140,000 Poles, about 20,000 Gypsies from various countries, more than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and more than 10,000 prisoners of other nationalities). Over 50% of the registered prisoners died as a result of starvation, labor that exceeded their physical capacity, the terror that raged in the camp, executions, the inhuman living conditions, disease and epidemics, punishment, torture, and criminal medical experiments. Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in 1940, in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well. Over the years, the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. It also had over 40 sub-camps. At first, Poles were imprisoned and died in the camp. Afterwards, Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies, and people of other nationalities were also incarcerated there. Beginning in 1942, the camp became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history of humanity, which was committed against the European Jews as part of Hitler's plan for the complete destruction of that people.
The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival. At the end of the war, in an effort to remove the traces of the crimes they had committed, the SS began dismantling and razing the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, as well as burning documents.

Majority of them will be sent straight to the gas chambers. Auschwitz II - Birkenau, was built in October 1941. It held more than 100,000 prisoners and housed gas chambers capable of disposing of 2,000 people a day. By 1944 some 6,000 people a day were being killed; Auschwitz III - Monowitz, supplied forced labour for the nearby IG Farben plant, the company which made the Zyklon-B gas used in Nazi death camps; Minor articles printed in U.S. and European newspapers in the early 1940s attest perhaps that Allied countries were somewhat aware of the camp and the deaths occurring there, yet did nothing either further to investigate or to act.*** In all, 1.1 million people died during the four and a half years of Auschwitz's existence; one million of them were Jewish men, women and children. Only an estimated 11 percent of Jewish children who were alive in 1933 survived the Holocaust. In total 90 percent of the Jewish population in Poland died --some 2.8 million people. Other groups who died included Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Romanies ("Gypsies"), people with disabilities, homosexuals and prisoners of conscience or religious faith; The decision to kill Europe's Jews was formulated in late 1941, and Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942 coordinated the apparatus of mass murder.



Birkenau
Gassing with Zyklon B began in autumn 1941. A Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said "This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through." Most victims were murdered in six extermination camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland was the largest and at least 1.1 million Jews were killed there before its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945. An estimated 5.5 million other victims of Nazi atrocities -- labelled "enemies of the German state" -- included up to half a million Romanies ("Gypsies"), an estimated 10,000-15,000 homosexuals and 3 million non-Jewish Poles. Catholic and Protestant clergy also were sent to concentration camps as well as Jehovah's Witnesses. Some Holocaust researchers fault the wartime allies for not bombing the railway tracks that brought Jews from across Europe to the camps. Survivors lament what Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel describes as shameful indifference to mass murder. The United States and Britain garnered much intelligence about the camps, other historians say, but their priority was a total military defeat of Nazi Germany, not rescuing European Jews. The camp was liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27 1945; About 200,000 inmates of the camp between 1940 and 1945 survived; Out of a total of about 7,000 guards at Auschwitz, including 170 female staff (the most infamous was Irma Grese, the 20-year-old daughter of a dairyman), 750 were prosecuted and punished after Nazi Germany was defeated. More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American losses of World War Two combined. About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz. A unit in Auschwitz where valuables snatched from incoming prisoners were kept was known as Canada, because Canada was thought to be a land of untold riches. Nazis at Auschwitz offered some non-Jewish female prisoners the option of 'light work'. As the women soon discovered, 'light work' meant prostitution. To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. The train ramp was disguised to look like a regular railway station with signs, timetables and even a clock painted on the wall. Josef Mengele's scientific experiments at Auschwitz often involved studies of twins. If one twin died, he would immediately kill the other and carry out comparative autopsies. Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden. Some Jewish prisoners secretly wrote eye-witness accounts of the atrocities of the gas chambers and hid them in bottles or metal containers buried in the ground. A number of these accounts were discovered after the war.

Auschwitz the Jewish death camp from the Boss

Between 1.3-1.5 million people were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz -- more than 90% were Jews. The other ten percent were Poles, Soviet Prisoners of War, Sinti Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals and others.The vast majority of the victims --who came from both Western and Eastern Europe including Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countriesMost of the people actually never really entered the camp, but just crossed it on the way to the gas chambers.Auschwitz was surrounded by high electric barbed wire fences, which were guarded by SS soldiers armed with machine guns and rifles. Some Holocaust survivors have said that not only did the barbed-wire surrounding Auschwitz tremble and howl, but also the tortured earth itself moaned with the voices of the victims.
In March 1942 trains carrying Jews began arriving daily. Sometimes several trains would arrive on the same day, each carrying one thousand or more human beings coming from the ghettos of Eastern Europe, as well as from Western and Southern European countries.They only had two cremation slots for all the millions that were murdered here? They must have been kept busy.

Jack Oran, a Holocaust survivor, relates:"Everyone worked so hard, got beaten up…and came back to the camp -- the exhaustion alone pushed him to the bunk to lie down and sleep throughout the night and get enough strength so that s/he might be able to do that again tomorrow. …In the morning, sixty percent of the six people [in the bunk] did not wake up. The other forty percent went over the pockets of the dead people to find a piece of bread…The hygienic condition was very, very poor in that period. I remember that I searched a dead body in the bunk and I found a piece of bread. That piece of bread was crawling with lice and you shook them off the bread and put it in your mouth and ate it. We all were crawling with lice. Taking a shower was not an option. To get out in the morning, to walk toward the barrack where there is water, running water &endash; you didn't want to walk through mud. If you walked through the mud you probably lost a shoe and then you had to go barefoot. So it would be damned if I do and damned if I don't. Those were the conditions.
"To lull new arrivals at Treblinka death camp into believing they were only in transit, plants were placed on the railway station and at the entrance to the gas chambers. About 60 million Reichmarks - equivalent to £125m today - was generated for the Nazi state by slave labour at Auschwitz.· Denmark was the only Nazi-occupied country that managed to save 95% of its Jewish residents. Following a tip-off by a German diplomat, thousands of Jews were evacuated to neutral Sweden..
Between savagery and killings, savouring the simple pleasures of life:Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, and SS auxiliaries relaxing at a recreation lodge near the camp.

In the first phase of his experiments, Mengele subjected pairs twins and people with physical handicaps to special medical examinations that could be carried out on the living organism. Usually painful and exhausting, these examinations lasted for hours and were a difficult experience for starved, terrified children (for such were the majority of the twins). The subjects were photographed, plaster casts were made of their teeth and jaws, and their fingerprints and toeprints were taken. As soon as the examinations of a given pair of twins or dwarf were finished, Mengele ordered them killed by phenol injection so that he could go on to the next phase of his experiments, the comparative analysis of internal organs at autopsy. "Scientifically" interesting anatomical specimens were preserved and shipped to the Institute in Berlin-Dahlem for more detailed examination.

Letter to Mrs.Vermillion

Dear Mrs.Vermillion,
I dont know what this letter is supposed to be about.

A poem from the Boss

To end these blogs I sign off with a poem.
Gelbvieh
Gelbvieh are some of the best cattle breed,
You ask why Gelbvieh are the best, what a great question you ask
Gelbvieh are just the right size at about 1300 to 1400 pounds and your weaning calves that weigh a good 600 pounds
It’s always better than the Angus that weigh 1200 pounds at the most for the heaviest calves they wean are 500 lbs.
Then we look at feed efficiency of these cows and we see that the Gelbvieh is a husky eater,
but look at her she weighs 1300 pounds wouldn’t you get more than just one helping when you eat and look at the facts your average cross bred cow that’s genes look like a street map of Albany New York and weighs 1300 pounds she’s is going to eat just as much as that good Gelbvieh.
Then you look at the meat and it obvious that Gelbvieh is better for they are heavier marbled
When they go T-bone to T-bone a Gelbvieh steak will always be bigger than any old Angus steak
So now that we’ve looked at the facts that separates Gelbviehs and other breeds there’s no doubt whose better so Gelbvieh its what’s for dinner.

What is a cow man really? From the Boss

Here a word of thought to anyone who owns livestock what do you call yourself when you work with them. If you’re a cowman you probably call yourself a herder. A sheep man might call himself a Sheppard that herds his flock. Why do they call themselves herders when they watch a flock of sheep not a herd of sheep? They could just say they’re flockers, but in the end are we really what we say we are? Baxter Black thinks like this for he wrote a poem titled “Cow Disturber” and it asks the question that I just asked and he came up with the instead of calling ourselves cow herders cow disturbers. Cow disturbers think about it and it starts to make sense. When a calf is sick what do we do with him we get him up and either rope him or run him down an ally. In the end to both situations they get squeezed and have needles that could have been uses as rifle barrels in WWII stuck into them and medicine delivered to them. When a pregnant heifer starts getting antsy and she’s close to do we get up every hour and go check her. We shine a flashlight in her eyes and see if that will help provoke her into labor. To tell whose calf belongs to whom we brand them and look at that from the calf’s point of view. Not that fun looking is it. All in all we are just trying to help these animals, but still were not exactly herding these animals so maybe we should start calling ourselves Cow Disturbers.

Feed Efficency from the Boss

For all you Angus people out there I bet you think that your Angus are pretty feed efficient and I’m not going to deny it they do a pretty good job of not eating too much and gaining pretty good. But here something you don’t think is true Gelbvieh are more feed efficient than Angus and I know your stunned right now, but let me explain. For my third article I am used an article in the May 2009 Gelbvieh World about one producers story of feed efficiency. I think that this article really puts into perspective that Gelbvieh is the best cattle breed because the test that was conducted was not only conducted on Gelbvieh, but on Angus, Balancer and is now being conducted on Maintainer and Lim-flex heifers.
Steve Munger is the man who conducted the experiment. He manages the Eagle Pass Ranch in South Dakota. In 2006 when he attended the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) convention he became interested in feed efficiency when they had sessions about residual feed intake and feed efficiency. Munger used the Grow Safe feeding system that measures individual feed intake. It consists of 15 Grow Safe nodes that are 40 ft. by 80 ft. and 8 to 10 head of cattle eat per node. The nodes are contained in a three sided building. When one of the cattle eat the data of how much they eat and of what of the ration was consumed it is sent wirelessly to a dedicated computer in the farm office. To ensure that if there is ever a computer crash the data is saved to an external hard drive every 10 minutes. The first tests were done in November 2007 with a group of bulls. After the bulls they did it to the replacement heifers and then steers that were later slaughtered and carcass tested. To this point Eagle Pass Ranch has completed the Residual Feed Intake (RFI) on 93 Angus cattle, 140 Gelbvieh cattle, and 293 Balancer cattle. A RFI takes 70 days to complete. The test animals are weighed when they come into the ranch. The beginning weight is sent to the University of Missouri with the feed intake data to be processed. They use Maximum R2 accuracy indicator value .70 and Eagle Pass has been seeing results of .65 to .68.
Two of the bulls tested in the first round one of RFI was a Gelbvieh, EGL Northern wind, and the other was an Angus bull, GAR Integrity. Both bulls were A.I. sires. Northern wind tested below zero 71.1 % and Integrity tested above zero 58.4 %. That is a $20.75 feed efficiency advantage for Northern Wind progeny so it is more expensive to feed the Angus sire. So this article Seals the envelope, puts the final nail in the coffin for the Angus being better than Gelbvieh. With this final article showing that Gelbvieh is more feed efficient and the best cattle breed.

Something We can all agree on from the Boss

I just read a great poem that beef men on both sides of the isle can agree upon. Both Gelbvieh and Angus people can agree that when it comes spring and you’re out in the freezing cold and if it's not cold the knee deep mud checking heifers to see if any are going to calve tonight and then that one does, but oh what's wrong she started over an hour ago and s and it is about Mr. Dewey’s calving technique were he uses a calving chain around the in trouble calf’s foot then he puts a modified hay hook on the chain. After he puts the hook on he puts his mud boots through the hook and pushes down on the cow while he pulls with his foot. One time however he came straight from town with his city shoes on and not his mud boots and his feet went through the hook and the cow drug him through the prairie banging him up well and giving him a moldy cheese looking shiner upon his left eye. He hasn't gotten very far all I can see is a foot and it looks like a backwards foot. So what do you do, you go get the bucket and put the water in it and put the soap in it to help make everything more clean when this calf comes out. Then you put your hook and chains in the warm soapy water and pull out the pulling rig. You go out and put the chains on feet sticking out and hook it up to the rig and pull the calf. Boy it's a biggen this time. Needless to say it's no fun when you have to pull a calf at two in the morning. Baxter Black however doesn't do it the same way. In his anthology Cowful of cowboy poetry there is one titled Mr. Dewey's Hook and chain.

Letter to Mrs V

I sent the letter to your email. It should be on their. If its not, then I will redo that one.

My 20 Photos

I have my 20 photos in my flash drive. I will print them off tomorrow.

My third Article Reason

I chose this last article because it shows us how sweet it is when the knicks add sweetney and dash of lampe to there records. It also shows how amazing it was when the New York Knicks were ''swishing and dishing.'' THat was what the poem said.

My Third Article

Building a championship team in the National Basketball Association is a little like making a cake. You need several ingredients, the right chemistry, and with a little luck, your cake will raise to championship glory, where victory satisfies everybody's sweet tooth.

That might be an over-dramatized analogy, but last night the New York Knicks, under their roof, in their kitchen toyed with the flavor of their cake, landing 6-foot-8 Georgetown forward Mike Sweetney with the ninth pick in the first round of the 2003 NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden.

In the process, the Knickerbockers also pulled off the steal of the draft, grabbing 6-foot-11 Polish forward Maciej Lampe with the 30th pick, early in the second round. Lampe was considered a lottery pick at the start of the evening, but slipped down in position because of contract issues that could keep him away from an NBA roster anytime soon.

The Knicks were certainly shaking and baking on draft night for the first time in a long time and were even bold enough to take a project in the third round (39th overall) in the name of 7-foot-4 center Slavko Vranes from Serba/Montenegro.

Maybe the Knicks should just draft big men from Georgetown, since the last time the franchise tabbed a Hoyas player in the first round, New Yorkers were privileged to see the legendary Patrick Ewing grace the hardwood for 15 seasons at the World's Most Famous Arena.

My Second Article Reason

I chose this article because it talks about the teams first victory in the whole season. The article said ''but unlike Coach K and Calhoun, every one of Boeheim's wins has come with the Orange.'' I didn't quite get that medaphor. It relates to NBA, me, and the college games.

My Second Article

Boeheim Goes for #800
Monday November 9, 2009
With his first victory of the 2009-10 season, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will reach the 800-win plateau. He'll be just the eighth coach in men's basketball history to reach number 800. Among active coaches, only Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Connecticut's Jim Calhoun have more W's -- but unlike Coach K and Calhoun, every one of Boeheim's wins has come with the Orange.

The Orange open their season at home against the University of Albany on Monday, November 9th in the first game of the 2k Sports Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Ordinarily, we'd pencil in a W when Syracuse faces a team from the America East... but don't forget, Boeheim and company lost an exhibition game to Division II LeMoyne last week. An uncharacteristically slow start shouldn't surprise anyone.

first Article reason

I chose this article because it talks about the Chicago Bulls. This is a good article because it shows different events from the Chicago Bulls. It also talks about the different famous NBA stars and their special moves.

First Article

The Chicago Bulls are Totally 80s
Monday November 9, 2009
NBA players have subjected an unsuspecting public to a lot of bad music over the years... from Shaquille O'Neal's collaborations with the Fu-Schnickens to Ron Artest's Tru Warier label to Tony Parker's French rhymes to J.J. Redick's forthcoming album.

(I admit, I've yet to hear the musical stylings of J.J. Redick. Perhaps it's unfair to suggest his album will be awful. But I'm not too worried that he'll prove me wrong on that point.)

But none of those musical crimes come close to the 2009-10 Chicago Bulls singing the greatest hits of the 80s.

In fairness... maybe these guys weren't that familiar with the source material. After all Derrick Rose -- whose version of the theme from Ghostbusters could be used to make the most hardened criminals spill their guts -- was born in 1988. (That's four years after the movie was in theaters.)

My writen poem reason

I chose this poem to write because I have done that same mistake in my years of playing basketball. I'm sure it has also happened in the NBA. It talks about competativeness in the game. It also talks about not quiting the game. Even if you were the one that lost the game for the team.

BUZZER BEATER BLUES

I missed the last shot of the game,
For shame, for shame, for shame.
You can give it all you got,
But alas, you missed the last shot.
All game your team has fought,
But you denied them what they sought.
They all pat you on the back,
But it feels harmful as a tack.
Even though you have taken a fall,
You still pick up your ball.
And move forward all and all.

My writen poem

My third poem reason

I chose this poem by Ramona Thompson because it relates to the NBA games. Actually, it is a poem about the NBA teams and games. It talks about the Orlando Magic being in the Playoffs. It tells us that the fans are down, but not out of the stadium. It shows the pressure that the Magic has on them because it is the last game, if they loose. If they win they go on to the next playoff round. This also relates to the high school basketball games. It is always competative.

My third poem

Magic fansDown but not outNot by a long shotSo please don't give up hope'Cause there's still a lot of timeThere's still a chanceFor your team to pull this one out of the fire and winNo need to worryNot just yet anywayAfter game 3 tomorrow nightIf the Magic loses againThen maybe you might wanna start sweating those bulletsThen maybe those curse words you might wanna start droppingJust a little friendly adviceSomehow, somewayMaybe the underdogs can pull off a miracleOr maybe notI guess it all dependsOn who has trained betterOn who wants it moreHopefully that will be your guys2009 could still be your yearIf not than have no fear'Cause there's always next yearThe good ole 2-0-1-0A time, a chanceFor your team to rise up above the horror of being called a zeroTo at long last become NBA heroes!

My second poem reason

I chose Rudi Plays Basketball because it relates to me alot. For one, it relates to me because he spent decades playing basketball. I haven't spent decades playing basketball, but I have spent a long time on basketball. It also says that he has a good jump shot. I have a pretty good jump shot. This whole poem relates Rudi, me, and the top 10 greatest NBA teams of all time.

my second poem

Rudi spent nearly a decade playingbasketball. He had a good jump shotbut never was a star because healways wanted both teams to win. He was more interested in having fun. It was the same in other sports
.Later, he wished he had spent thattime learning a musical instrument, painting
or writing. But he did findan application for his skill when hedelivered newspapers by car in collegein an old Peugeot with a sun roof.Some customers got up early to seehis almost perfect accuracy throwingnewspapers from a moving vehicleonto their porches through the sunroof. A few even applauded.

Something for the Angus people to think about from the Boss

Everyone knows who Baxter Black is and he has the best poem for Angus people. If Herefords were turned Black and Angus were Turned Red would Angus breeders than breed Herefords because they were black like there Angus. It’s happened to the Gelbvieh already with the Angus asking for help and the good people of Gelbvieh letting them use our good bulls and cows that they have now created the Balancer which is pretty much a black Gelbvieh. I no longer have to think about what I would do in the event because it’s happened to the Gelbvieh and I accepted it and now have a Black Gelbvieh Balancer bull. So the question is if all the black Angus in the world now turned into red cattle overnight or were bred until they were all red what would you do? Would you start breeding another breed like Gelbvieh or would you sink to breeding Brahma cattle with all their loose skin. You would have to move to Texas just so they wouldn’t die of the cold. So Angus is it just the color you like, is it the meat or just the cattle. I know I like Gelbvieh not for their color, but for what the cattle are. Easy keeping, good eating, and just tall around the best cattle of all time.

song not poem

They fall in lineOne at a timeReady to play(I can't see them anyway)No time to loseWe've got to moveSteady your helm(I am losing sight again)[Bridge]Fire your guns,It's time to run,Blow me away.(I will stay unless I may)After the fall, We'll shake it off, Show me the way.[Chorus]Only the strongest will survive,Lead me to heaven when we die,I am a shadow on the wall,I'll be the one to save us all.There's nothing left,So save your breath,Lying in wait.(Caught inside this tidal wave)Your cover's blown,Nowhere to go,Holding your fate.(Loaded I will walk alone)[Bridge]Fire your guns,It's time to run,Blow me away.(I will stay, unless I may)After the fall,We'll shake it off,Show me the way.[Chorus]Only the strongest will survive,Lead me to heaven when we die,I am a shadow on the wall,I'll be the one to save us all.You wanted it back (Don't fight me God!)Here it goes!Die! [Chorus]Only the strongest will survive, Lead me to heaven when we die,I am a shadow on the wall,I'll be the one to save us all.

This song was written by Breaking Benjamin it’s called Blow Me Away it was written for halo 2 and can only be bought off the halo 2 CD. It really doesn’t talk about the game but I think the verse “I will stay in the mess I made”. Refers to the fact that Master Chief let out the flood basically and he has to stay and fix it.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to save the United States from nuclear attack. The United States Government will not prevent this attack. As you probably suspect, they have been very busy for five years provoking it and clearly intend to continue doing so. The part of the world paying attention to U.S. imperialism now knows the U.S. people will not only allow it, they will support and encourage it. They will re elect it This puts much of the attentive world between Iraq and a hard place.However, there is a percolating hatred of growing numbers of attentive warriors who are correctly advised the only way Americans will take control of a runaway monster of government, is a concerted policy of nuclear shock and awe. They know what it takes to get our attention. The occasional threats of George Bush to use preventive or preemptive attacks on anyone considered a threat to U.S. security (oil and corporate profit) and his occasional declaration of doing so with nuclear weapons has become the model for the global resistance.Did it surprise you to learn North Korea and Pakistan were trading weapons technology and Pakistan was selling plans and nuclear technology? Perhaps you still have not heard. Are North Koreans radical Islamic terrorists? It doesn\'t matter, does it? People all over the world need protection from the U.S. shock and awe bully boys and no non nuclear power can even negotiate because Satan does not speak to evil. Who is like unto the U.S. to have the whole world shaking in its boots? Pretend whatever helps you sleep at night, nuclear weapons scare bully boys and level the battleground. All of a sudden, or not, conventional military superiority only matters when applied against inferior militaries and civilians, as in Dresden, Germany, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan over sixty years ago. What goes around comes around, unless of course, God loves you. Then you get a pass - or as many as you need. Feeling better now?Picture this: On a bright sun shiny day, ten oil and cargo ships chug toward the U.S.. Each is equipped with two medium range nuclear missiles and launchers. Both targeted for the same U.S. city, as accurate as our own. If the left one doesn\'t get you, the right one will. For all we know they could be our own. Is there a limit to government treason? There is none. When all ten ships, each with a different population target, are in position, at a certain time of night, the launch command is given. Within minutes, ten population centers are destroyed. Not one anti missle system ever launched a missile and would have done no good if they had, due to the short time and distance. Unlike 911, this one won\'t be televised.What will our national government be doing the following morning? Will they be launching all \"our\" nukes? What will the targets be? Iran and North Korea? No matter, Washington D.C. would be a target if there was only one. Then who would the Strategic Air Command target, Caracas? The attack ships could chug into U.S. ports and unload their legitimate cargos if the port was not in a target zone.The following morning more than half the U.S. military is deployed overseas and the remaining military has no central command. This would be an excellent time for armed evil doers to visit the U.S. in a huge airlift to liberate our people from the tyranny attempting to replace the former one. Preemptive government of an angry, unruly people. In the following weeks the United States would look a whole lot like Iraq does now, unless there were at least a million occupiers maintaining law and order for the 150 million survivors.If only there was some way the American people could neutralize the threat the U.S. Government now poses to the world. This would make a decisive nuclear attack unnecessary. We only need read the U.S. Declaration of Independence to see we have a right and duty to dismantle this global threat we have created and allowed to dictate conditions to the world. We would still have state governments to maintain law and order and a loose confederation could provide real money or an interest free credit system. Whether Americans choose the non violent option or the nuclear one, we will need a post attack plan for reorganization. At this point in time, we have minds in high schools and universities which could come up with several good plans. Or is no plan what it means to be American? Maybe we should tune in to Jericho (CBS) and see how TV screenwriters solve the problems.

Angus Poem written by Homer

Angus Poem from Homer
Angus Rules Gelbviehs drool a lot,
Angus are superior Gelbviehs are horribly ugly,
Choose the Angus not gelbvieh.

This is my first poem

Halo 3 SonnetThe Chief heads to Earth to finish the fight.As a Spartan trained from age six to kill, Even the Covenant can’t stop his might.He must halt the Ark or all will be still.The Covenant race to the human home, Following the Great Journey they had planned.*Here to find and activate the Ark dome, and the rings that they do not understand.*Under the African sand the Ark waits, Powers more valuable then all gems.The secret that it holds will seal doomed fates, yet it can protect those that it condemns.Without Cortana the Chief still defends, like she said “This is the way the world ends.”
It basically tells you the main story stopping the Covenant and blowing up the Ark. This speech kind of reminds me of the opening of 3 because there are a few lines out of the poem that are in the opening. It also mentions the two main people in the game Master Chief and Cortana. The line without Cortana the Chief still defends is the separation of the main characters.

ANGUS CATTLE
, breed of black polled (hornless) beef cattle, originated in Scotland and introduced in 1873 to the United States, where they have become well established. Often called Black Angus or Aberdeen Angus cattle, they have low, compact bodies and are noted for the fine quality of their flesh. As a breed, they lack the size of Shorthorn and Hereford cattle. In recent years, the Red Angus breed of cattle has been derived from red cattle born in registered black herds. www.questia.com


I chose this article because it just simply tells about the Angus breed.

A Nuclear holocaust is the possibility of a nearly complete annhilation of human civilization by nuclear warfare and weapons . Under this scenario, all or most of the Earth is made uninhabitable by nuclear weapons in future world wars or possibly world war 3.
A common definition for the word "holocaust" is "great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire." The word is derived from the Greek term "holokaustos" meaning "completely burnt." Possibly the first printed use of the word "holocaust" to describe an imagined nuclear destruction is Reginald Glossop's 1926: "Moscow ... beneath them ... a crash like a crack of Doom! The echoes of this Holocaust rumbled and rolled ... a distinct smell of sulphur ... atomic destruction." In the 1960s the principal referent of the unmodified "holocaust" was nuclear destruction. Since the mid 1970s the capitalized term "Holocaust" has been closely associated with the Nazi mass slaughter of Jews (see Holocaust) and "holocaust" in its nuclear destruction sense is almost always preceded by "atomic" or "nuclear".
Nuclear physicists and authors have speculated that nuclear holocaust could result in an end to human life, or at least to modern civilization on Earth due to the immediate effects of nuclear fallout, the loss of much modern technology due to electromagnetic pulses, or nuclear winter and resulting extinctions.
Nuclear holocaust in popular culture
The theme is widely used in dystopian fiction books, films, and video games.
One of the first depictions of a nuclear holocaust is included in Olaf Stapledon's celebrated Last and First Men (1930). Unlike the post-1945 treatment of the subject, where the disaster is almost invariably the outcome of a war between states, Stapeldon depicts this holocaust as the result of class war between an arrogant ruling class and downtrodden miners in a future civilization. Abuse of the newly-discovered Atomic power source leads to what would now be called a chain reaction engulfing the entire world, so that "of the two hundred million members of the human race, all were burnt or roasted or suffocated - all but thirty-five, who happened to be in the neighborhood of the North Pole" (and from whom humanity is eventually regenerated for many more millions of years of existence).
Throughout the Cold War, nuclear holocaust was something many people in the developed world were afraid of because of a perceived likelihood of it occurring. The topic became somewhat less common after the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, as many of the works created during the Cold War were primarily just commentary on that conflict. Asiatic work that deals with the theme and western work influenced by it often borrow much imagery from American atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II in 1945. To this date, those bombings and the failure of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 remain the only nuclear disasters from which authors and screenwriters can draw real world experience with the aftermath of such instances.Authors, directors, and game designers have approached the topic from a variety of angles and in every major media. Novels such as the Hugo Award-winning A Canticle for Leibowitz tell of a reemerging civilization several hundred years after the bombs fell, likening the civilization of the North American survivors to that of the dark ages in Europe. In other works, such as the Fallout series of video games, nuclear holocaust is used as a backdrop to a dystopian tale of mutant monsters and beasts. In many of these works, a partly forgotten nuclear holocaust. I picked this artical because it explains what a nuclear holocast is.

tylers post

I just finished my 20 pictures and its looking pretty good but theres still more work to do and if i got paid at all i would want it to be paid by the minute because this is a long project.

Where willi be in Twenty years Pt. Two-

What have i learned?
Does the future hold anything special?
in twenty years i would expect breakthroughs in technology and a new way of thinking.i will finish this later

My first artical is that The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, because they have pertrolium and oil that they refused to give other countries cause it is one of there only resources.

article 1

I like this article. I choose this article because I agree that family makes everyone happy. Even if you don’t get along with your family it is hard to stay mad at someone in your family. Even a really dysfunctional family like mine is still really close. There is no good or bad families. One thing that some families do that I think is stupid is stressing out about getting everyone something good for their birth day or Christmas, it doesn’t matter what the gift actually is if your giving it to a family member. It’s the thought that counts. Families are awesome.

Articled 2 from Homer

One of the most successful English breeds of cattle, the Angus has long been the cattle “business” breed. Its black color is highly sought after in crossbreeding programs as a potential seal of Angus quality. Perhaps the most representative breed in cowherds, the Angus holds a well earned spot amongst all beef breeds.

The Angus breed began in the northern regions of England. Originally both red and black cattle were equally selected for in attempts to get high quality traits wherever possible. In the latter half of the 18th century, the cattle of the Aberdeen – Angus counties of northeast Scotland were being heavily used for the improvement of other regional cattle herds.

The very first Angus cattle were imported into the U.S. in 1873. George Grant, a Kansas rancher wanted to develop the Angus as his primary breed and introduce it to the region as an ideal beef option. At their first public appearance in the 1873 Missouri Exposition, the Angus cattle were negatively received. At this time polled cattle was not yet appreciated for its benefits within feedlot cattle, and the black color was too different from the common red coloration seen in the familiar cattle. Angus ranchers however were not dissuaded and continued to promote the Angus and also began to crossbreed it with the hardy Texas Longhorn. The results were polled, very hardy black calves – a very appealing cross to past critics. A heavy importation of Angus cattle direct from Scotland followed, at its peak 1200 cattle were brought in from 1878 to 1883.

The American Aberdeen- Angus Breeders’ Association was founded on Nov 21, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1950, it was renamed the American Angus Association. Today, it holds the distinction of being the largest purebred beef registry in the world.

Angus beef hardly needs an introduction; it is renowned for its fine marbling texture and superlative eating qualities. The Angus given a minimal amount of days on feed will manage to repeatedly turn out Prime and Choice grade meats. The Certified Angus Beef program was the first of its class. It provides Angus beef producers an increase in the marketability of their stock directly leading to higher premiums. For the consumer, it provides a consistent eating experience and the assurance of knowing what one is purchasing. In order to qualify under the phenotype requirements of the CAB programs, the cattle must exhibit at least 51% black coloration as well as the absence of non-angus traits (Brahman humps, dairy cattle conformation). The surge in the CAB program has led to a wide-reaching escalation of breeding black into cattle stock, most often using Angus bulls.

Angus bulls are an excellent crossbreeding option. Breeding to an Angus bull virtually eliminates calving problems. The resulting calves are born polled minimizing injuries in feedlot situations. The Angus’ black coloration also serves as “sun block” of sorts, helping to prevent cancers and sun burning of the udder. The ChiAngus (Angus x Chianina) and the SimAngus (Angus x Simmental) are only two examples of angus hybrids that carry the qualities of both breeds making leaner, more efficient grain converters with higher performance numbers.

While the high quality traits of beef are not exclusive in the Angus, their numbers increased due to their consistency in producing quality. There is little lacking in the Angus breed; it meets the needs of a demanding cattle industry on a wide range of points. It is a docile breed, relatively hardy; cows calve easily and have excellent maternal instincts. At feedlots its meat quality proves its superiority time and again. When in doubt, it is the cattleman tradition to go black—a time tested strategy that has served them well.


I chose this article because it talks about the history of the Angus breed.It shows that the Angus is a well known breed that originated in Northern England. It also talks about the feed quality in the Angus breed.

my poem

World problems

By Kristopher J. Lanoue


The world is falling apart
Wars going on everywhere
People die in the streets
Everyday cause someone didn’t care

If they starved or not
We have people calling others racist names
We have gangs killing mothers
The government’s aim

To destroy the world we love
We have the governments making the people go poor
With taxes used to fund a war
We the people didn’t want

The rich sit in their homes watching their plasma screen TVs
Driving their Lamborghinis
Driving their gas guzzling SUVs

Causing pollution destroying the ozone
Making this world fall apart
Into thousands of pieces

third narrative by K-sever

The reason why i chose this poem is because it showed how a man can be a normal person for one second then be a murderer the next. It also showed how even a butterfly is affected bye the war.It also showed the determination of the butterfly to find a place to land.it also made me feel that amongst this horrible world that there is some beauty.It also showed that no matter how grim the situation is don't give up on this world and that it will get better sometime in thye future

The 8 reasons to choose angus from Homer

Eight Reasons to Choose Angus
Angus is rapidly becoming the most widespread and keenly sought after temperate beef breed in the world. This expansion is due to the greater profitability which can be achieved using Angus. Here are some of the reasons why beef producers are choosing Angus:

1. Market DemandBoth domestic and export markets currently pay a premium for Angus cattle. Feedlots targeting the high quality Japanese market prefer Angus because of their growth and marbling ability. Several feedlots in Australia feed almost exclusively Angus cattle for the long-fed Japanese B3 market. Angus weaners are also in high demand by re-stockers for pasture finishing programs targeting a wide range of markets from domestic steers to heavy grassfed export bullocks.

2. Market VersatilityAngus is well known for their tremendous market versatility. They have the ability to grow to heavy market weights quickly without becoming over fat. They also have the ability to finish at lighter weights if desired. Angus has excellent carcass quality, high muscling and moderate maturity patterns providing maximum market versatility.

3. Superior Fertility and Maternal AbilityAngus females reach puberty early go in calf quickly and continue to breed regularly to a late age. Angus has a reputation for maintaining high fertility even under difficult seasonal conditions. Angus cows are excellent mothers with good milking ability. They are easy calving, easy care cattle.

4. Meat QualityAngus are known throughout the world for their ability to consistently produce the finest high quality beef. Straight bred and crossbred Angus steers are keenly sought after for pasture and feedlot finishing programs to target high quality beef markets. The superior meat quality of Angus cattle comes from their ability to lay down intra-muscular marbling (taste) fat during the finishing phase, together with excellent tenderness, texture, flavor , meat color and fat color.

5. Hardiness and EfficiencyAngus are found in all areas of Australia from the high altitudes of the Monaro, with cold temperatures and variable seasons to the boggy conditions experienced during wet winters in Gippsland, Victoria. They are also found in hot, dry conditions of central Australia. Angus cows forage well on steep hillside country. They are hardy enough to look after their calves and still go back in calf in dry, tough years. There are no cancer eye problems with Angus or their crosses.

6. Best All Round BalanceOne of the most important attributes of Angus is the tremendous balance of highly fertile, productive females and high quality carcases suited to a wide range of markets. Different breeds excel in different things. Angus are the best all rounders. They are used in crossbreeding programs for their maternal ability, market value, carcase quality and for their growth and hardiness.

7. Large Documented Gene PoolAngus cattle are bred on every continent in the world. The large number of Angus animals provides an immense pool of available genetics that allows the breed to respond to new challenges and commercial demands. Australian Angus breeders have successfully utilised bloodlines from many countries. Performance recording identifies high performing animals in Australian production systems that are then used widely through AI providing commercial breeders with bulls to meet market demand.

8. Committed Service BackupAngus Australia provides a wide range of educational, recording, and promotional services to members and their clients. These include the provision of up to date technical information, the promotion of Angus to feedlots, processors and retailers and the development of branded beef products to increase the demand for commercial Angus cattle.

Read it and weap Clay Patton!!!!

second poem narrative by k-sever

I chose this poem because how even in our country the land of the free, we still have people being judged because of their skin color their weight and their grades it showed how much certain people hate the way they look and feel because of the way people talk to them. it was a poem of how ugly this time is in this country.

tylers music article

Music

“Music has charms to soothe the savage beast” Or to put it more simply – music can make the wild person become peaceful. Do you agree?

How does music affect your mood? Do you use music to change your mood at times? For example, what music would you choose when you are sad? What music would you choose when you want to be inspired to work? Do you like to hear music when you’re thinking or working? If so, what kind of music?

Have you ever been serenaded? Has someone ever sung a song just for you? Or have you serenaded someone?

What kinds of music do you enjoy? How did you learn to enjoy music? Have you ever studied music or music history? Do you play or sing? What are some favorite songs? Why do you like them?

Do different generations choose different types of music in your native culture? Explain. Do parents and kids argue about music in your native culture? Explain the different viewpoints of different generations in your native culture.

In what way has music most significantly affected your life?

Do you listen to music on the radio, on CDs or tapes (or records), or do you attend concerts? Tell about a musical event that you attended.

Do you like to perform music? Do you play an instrument or sing? Do you enjoy singing harmony? Do you like karaoke? What music do you hear or play at parties?

Is it common for children to learn musical skills on instruments or in singing in your native country? Describe what is typical. If yes, do they learn in school or in after-school activities?



Even though some people can’t sing a note, the Bible encourages us to at least make a song in our hearts:

“Don’t get drunk with wine . . but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord . .” Ephesians 5:18-19

One of the psalms of the Old Testament tells this:

“Sing a new song to the Lord, sing praise to him in the community of his faithful people. Let Israel be filled with joy because God is their Maker . . Let them praise his name with dancing. Let them make music to him with harps and tambourines. The Lord takes delight in his people. . . Let them sing with joy even when they are lying in bed.” Psalm 149:1-5


It's generally known that listening to music when feeling down or disappointed can provide relief. What may not be commonly known is that music can also reduce stress, make depression more bearable and help you relax. There is even an expanding field of therapy called music therapy which uses music for healing. The big problem is that some people misuse the effect of music by listening to consecutive and random music and so result in making themselves feel worse!!