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Title: Dutch Give Out Nazi Barbed Wire as Museum 'Souvenirs'
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The Forward
URL Source: http://forward.com/articles/166841/ ... museum-souvenir/#ixzz2DXUX0At6
Published: Nov 28, 2012
Author: JTA
Post Date: 2012-11-28 12:25:16 by Brian S
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Views: 3976
Comments: 6
A Dutch Holocaust museum plans to hand out pieces of barbed wire from a Nazi concentration camp to visitors, to be kept as souvenirs. RTV Utrecht, a local television channel, reported that the management of the Camp Amersfoort National Monument decided to give away the wire after it had been criticized for putting the wire up for sale earlier this month. The Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, or CIDI, a watchdog on anti- Semitism, asked the museum stop selling the wire. CIDI Deputy Director Esther Voet said that some descendants of resistance fighters found the sale inappropriate. She added the pieces of wire could reach collectors of Nazi memorabilia. The management of the museum, situated on what used to be a Nazi concentration camp in the heart of the Netherlands, placed 50 pieces of wire in the museum’s gift shop and charged $12 for each piece. The wire once surrounded the camp when the Nazis placed Dutch resistance fighters there. Also detained at the camp was a Jewish contingent of forced labor prisoners. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. “Our archaeologist proposed we throw away all the wire that we found around the museum,” said Harry Ruijs, the museum’s director, in an interview with RTV Utrecht. “We said we would find a way to use it.”
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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I can't believe that 70 plus year old barbed wire located outside in a cold damp climate would be anything other than rust dust. It was probably put in place years later to keep out looters.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
I've got some old fence rows that I know are at least that old. Indeed it is brittle but far from dust.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Yeah, I take it back as some around here is probably that old too, but I believe Holland is quite a bit damper than my area of >15% summer humidity.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
It has been a long time but I remember trees being used as fence posts for barbed wire. I've seen those trees grow over and around that wire - maybe a foot wider than the barbed wire. I've also seen a few fence posts grow into trees in the old days.
We have those all over the place. I have one cherry tree that I left a grease-gun in the crotch way back when I was a kid and the tree grew around the gun. Found it after I moved back from Houston. I remember loosing the thing and can remember putting it there...after I saw it. I looked all over for it back then and had to buy another.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Surely you don't hold the Jews responsible for that.
.A Dutch Holocaust museum plans to hand out pieces of barbed wire from a Nazi concentration camp to visitors, to be kept as souvenirs.
#2. To: mininggold (#1)
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
I've got some old fence rows that I know are at least that old. Indeed it is brittle but far from dust.
#4. To: Brian S (#2)
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
It has been a long time but I remember trees being used as fence posts for barbed wire. I've seen those trees grow over and around that wire - maybe a foot wider than the barbed wire.
#6. To: Brian S (#5)
Say hi to your mom for me.
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