Erntefest
I've found a site with information in english so you don't have to support my bad english.
I was at 1st upset because the bombing is not that historically important for me ...
MAJDANEK MASSACRE
On November 3rd, 1943, seventeen thousand men, women and children were shot in what the SS called the 'Harvest Festival'. The slaughter started at 5am in the morning when a never-ending line of naked Jews were force-marched into a huge trench dug within the precincts of the notorious Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. They were ordered to lie down flat, layer upon layer, to be machine-gunned to death. At six o'clock that evening, petrol was poured over the bodies and set alight. The camp, near Lubin, was built in 1941 and consisted of 144 barrack type huts each holding 300 prisoners. Used mainly for the killing of Polish Jews, it is estimated that around 400,000 Jews died here.
[This message has been edited by straffo (edited 11-03-2000).]
