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May 3, 2010

Prisoners killed by drowning in the pool at Mauthausen?

Filed under: Holocaust, World War II — Tags: , , — furtherglory @ 11:54 am

Just when I thought that I had heard everything about the many cruel ways that the Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, someone e-mailed me about the so-called “bathing to death” that was introduced by SS-Haupsturmfuehrer Karl Chmielwesky at Mauthausen between the Summer of 1941 and January 1942. (more…)