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(Message started by: Roy on Jul 16^th, 2006, 5:28pm)

Title: At the train station
Post by Roy on Jul 16^th, 2006, 5:28pm

A train pulls into a station, but none of the waiting passengers
move.

Why?

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by cchris on Jul 17^th, 2006, 12:54pm

[hide]A train to Auschwitz, perhaps.[/hide]

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by BNC on Jul 17^th, 2006, 1:22pm

Makes sense if [hide]it's a toy train[/hide].

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by jascos8 on Jul 17^th, 2006, 2:57pm

The train has no waggons?

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by Roy on Jul 17^th, 2006, 3:36pm

BNC, come on down!! Your grand prize today is the satisfaction of knowing you got it! Sorry, but we're on a tight budget ;D

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by cchris on Jul 18^th, 2006, 1:06am

[hide]My toy trains never had people. I want a refund! I did like my answer, gotta admit it would've worked. [/hide]

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by Roy on Jul 18^th, 2006, 1:08am

Oh, we are sorry cchris, but it is a charity event, boys, initiate LOCKDOWN! Hands up, cash out!

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by BNC on Jul 18^th, 2006, 6:19am

on 07/18/06 at 01:06:20, cchris wrote:

gotta admit it would've worked.

I didn't intend to comment on it, but being Jewish I can't help myself.

It wouldn't work. The trains were not designed as the murder means. Indeed, many people died on the trains, as they were loaded far beyond their capacity, but they were designed to bring the people to the camps.

See, for example, here (http://www1.yadvashem.org.il/search/index_search.html):
"Instead of carrying out the "selection" where the trains arrived, a siding took the carriages practically to the gas chamber, and the train stopped about 100 m. from the gas chamber. ... Then we saw how the seals were taken off the trucks and how women, men and children were pulled out of the trucks by soldiers. We were present at the most terrible scenes when old couples were separated. Mothers had to leave their daughters, because they were taken to the camp, while the mothers and children went to the gas chambers."

The Auschwitz-Birkenau was a concentration and extermination camp, designed for living people to me labored and murdered. You can learn a bit about it here (http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/auschwitz.html)

<Sorry, but I do take the Holocaust seriously!>

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by Icarus on Jul 18^th, 2006, 5:37pm

I probably shouldn't speak for cchris, but I assumed he meant that they didn't move because they had no desire to get off, knowing that whatever awaited them was even worse than the train. Alas, that they had no choice in the matter.

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by BNC on Jul 18^th, 2006, 8:48pm

According to testimonies, they didn't know what was waiting for them. They sometimes were promised an "autonomous" area for Jewish people.

From the same site above:

Quote:

All these people knew nothing of the fate that awaited them. They were only confused because they were being separated from each other, but they did not know that they were going to their death.

PS: sorry for the first link above, that takes you to a search page. If you want to, search for "trains" and click the first result (Extract From Evidence Given at the Nuremberg Trials on the Auschwitz Extermination Camp).

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by graphia on Jul 18^th, 2006, 8:50pm

I wonder if figurines can be said to be "waiting"?

Title: Re: At the train station
Post by Puffster on Jul 18^th, 2006, 8:56pm

BNC, thanks for the link. Oddly enough, I was just researching the Holocaust yesterday. I am not Jewish, but likewise take the Holocaust quite seriously. I still can't wrap my head around an entire culture allowing that happen.