The Strange Rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler

There aren’t two sides to every story.

Steve QJ
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Krakow, Poland, 1942. Toby Biber, along with several thousand other Orthodox Jews, is moved from the Krakow ghetto to Plaszow forced labour camp.

Despite rumours that those who can’t work will be shot on sight, several desperate parents hide their infant children in bags and rucksacks rather than leave them behind. But to their delight, when the Gestapo discover that children are hiding in the camp, they set up a small nursery for them.

For two weeks, the parents send their sons and daughters to the nursery to be cared for while they work. Then, a truck arrives and takes all the children away. They’re never seen alive again.

Krakow, Poland, 1943. SS troops raid the house where Jan Imich, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy, has been hiding since the beginning of WWII. One of the soldiers becomes suspicious when Jan shows his fake ID, and forces him to drop his trousers. He is arrested immediately.

Jan is taken to Gross-Rosen concentration camp where the Nazis conduct medical experiments on him and force him to work in the crematoriums. But the guard who registers him, despite knowing he is Jewish, gives him a red triangle signifying a political prisoner instead of a yellow triangle signifying a Jew. And this…

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Steve QJ
Curated Newsletters

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