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On Sat, 29 Mar 25 03:24:44 UTC, rjac@shell02.TheWorld.com wrote:

>Holocaust survivors reveal unusual Nazi cruelty
>Updated 12:54 AM PT February 15, 2001
>By Anastasio Philemon, World News Service, Los Angeles (WNS-LA)
>
>Revelations continue to emerge of Hitlerite brutality against Jewish
>concentration camp prisoners. Reports surfacing in recent former
>prisoner associations' statements reveal a hitherto unreported fact
>that during their World War 2 incarceration at Auschwitz, Ravensbruck,
>and Chelmno, prisoners were routinely denied the use of toilet paper.
>Further cruelty by the Nazi SS guards was demonstrated when prisoners
>were forced to use sand paper in place of regular issue toilet tissue.
>
>“Those SS beasts forced me to use it,” described Anna Rosenstein, a
>former Auschwitz survivor. “They even had Capos (selected Jewish
>prisoners acting as collaborative overseers for the SS over other
>prisoners) checking to make sure we used the sand paper, doing spot
>checks when they suspected we weren’t following regulations. Some of
>us were beaten, whipped, or spanked when the sand paper was found to
>be unused. It was terrible!”
>
>Another prisoner described a public humiliation he was forced to
>endure by a particularly sadistic SS guard. “During the morning
>roll-call, the SS sergeant made me step forward and loudly announce to
>my fellow prisoners that I sometimes didn’t use the sand paper
>properly,” said Saul Lewitzky, now a resident of Newport Beach,
>California. “I had to hold up that day’s issue of sand paper and shout
>out that I would use it faithfully and properly. I hated them for
>that. Even to this day I can’t see sand paper without feeling ill,
>humiliated, degraded, or break out into a fearful sweat.”
>
>One former Capo who pleaded to not be identified admitted the claims
>were true. “I had to oversee the use of the sand paper, I had no
>choice!” he lamented. “If I didn’t do as the SS told me, then they
>would have forced me to use the sand paper too instead of the toilet
>tissue which I was privileged to use. But, when the SS wasn’t
>watching, I sometimes slipped regular toilet tissue to my fellow
>prisoners in the latrines. I probably saved many Jewish lives that
>way!”
>
>Many prisoners developed serious rashes to their private parts as a
>result of the forced use of the sand paper, but when seeking medical
>treatment they were often laughed at by SS medical orderlies. “I could
>hardly even sit down, and the daily trip to the latrine was sheer
>torture,” remembered Leon Aritzky, who now lives in Eilat, Israel. “My
>rash sometimes bled but when asking for medicine, the orderlies always
>burst into laughter and cracked jokes. They sometimes even dangled
>clean toilet paper in front of us — which they were allowed to use,
>but not us — to further humiliate and torture us.”
>
>Thousands of prisoners are reported to have died from the use of the
>sand paper.
>
>Researchers in Germany have produced wartime photographs of piles of
>industrial sand paper, often shown loaded onto boxcars before shipment
>to concentration camps. Other photographs show empty boxcars prior to
>the loading of the sand paper.
>
>Documentation recently viewed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center affirms
>that the sand paper manufacturer of Sweden which filled Nazi German
>orders — and which is a subsidiary of the American Company
>International Industrial Paper Suppliers — knew what the paper was
>being used for but continued to supply it anyway. A SWC spokesman
>announced that it, in conjunction with the World Jewish Congress and
>the International Federation of Jewish Deputies, would be launching
>lawsuits against both the subsidiary and its parent corporation for
>complicity in the Holocaust. Early reports project a seeking of
>damages in the region of US$18 Billion.
>
>An IIPS representative made a terse comment about the revelations: “We
>are deeply shocked and saddened to learn of this lamentable wartime
>activity by our company,” stated Thomas Harkins. “A recent company
>board meeting has already authorized meetings with Jewish
>representatives and Holocaust survivor associations to work out
>appropriate compensations. We cannot express our guilt and regrets
>sufficiently. We feel morally indebted to Jewish people for bringing
>these facts to our attention, and we pray that this will never happen
>again.”
>
>2001 World News Service.
>
>ADL statement on Charmin/Holocaust book
>Crime/Corruption News Keywords: ADL Charmin HOLOCAUST Source: ADL
>Press Release published: 2/15/01
>Posted on 02/15/2001 10:29:20 PST by Non-New Yorker
>
>NEW YORK, Feb. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
>today said that the revelation in a new book that the American
>corporate giant Procter & Gamble was instrumental in supplying Charmin
>toilet paper and other personal care products to the Third Reich,
>thereby facilitating the implementation of Hitler’s extermination of
>European Jewry, “validates unequivocally that there were many who knew
>about and were complicit in the Final Solution, but chose to remain
>silent and put profits above responsibility and morality.”
>
>Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following
>statement:
>
>It’s time to squeeze the Charmin.
>
>Just when we thought we knew all there was to know about the
>Holocaust, David Steinman, in Moon and Stars and Holocaust, provides
>us with shocking documentation that the American corporate giant was
>instrumental in facilitating the institutional infrastructure that
>undergirded Hitler’s plan to wipe Europe free of Jewry. In recent
>years the roles of various European and American corporations in
>aiding and supplying the Nazis have been exposed. Now we have evidence
>that P&G, producer of Charmin (TM) toilet tissue and icon of American
>business, was complicit in the Final Solution, putting the profits it
>derived from sales of toilet paper, toothpaste and other toiletries
>above responsibility and morality.
>
>We have been told that “nobody knew.” Nobody knew the extent of
>Hitler’s plans for the Jews; nobody knew that the Third Reich could
>carry out the Final Solution; nobody knew that Final Solution was
>being implemented. Now we know that not only did many know, but that
>some, like P&G, made it possible for the Final Solution to proceed
>apace.
>
>It is horrifying that while the millions of Jews imprisoned in camps
>were worked to death and denied even the most basic human dignity of
>showering, their wardens were enjoying the softest tissues and most
>luxuriant facial scrubs American technology could provide. Let there
>be no mistake: P&G “clean” money is dirty money.
>
>“Everyone appreciates the comfortably clean feeling of Charmin,” runs
>the P&G advertising slogan. But everyone at P&G should feel
>uncomfortably dirty about the horrifying abrogation of human rights
>that forms this sordid chapter in its corporate history. Making money
>by abetting the most monstrous regime in human history may have seemed
>good business at the time, but it is bad business today, and we intend
>to take every step to see that current leadership at P&G both
>renounces the actions of past leadership and moves forward in
>partnership with the Jewish community in a morally appropriate
>direction. Return to the ranks of responsible corporate citizens
>requires nothing less.
>
>While today’s P&G clearly is not responsible for the actions of
>earlier directors and their hands-on relationship with the Nazis
>through German subsidiary PGD, today’s P&G does owe the world a full
>accounting and restitution in order to remove the blot now tarnishing
>its corporate name. America’s icon of business owes it to itself, its
>employees, investors, customers, and, most importantly, to the memory
>of the six million Jews and millions of victims of the Nazis to come
>clean about its dirty role in the Holocaust. We are certain that P&G
>will take whatever actions are fiscally and morally necessary to
>counter the public outrage generated by these surprising new
>revelations. The ADL will continue the fight for accountability as the
>Holocaust continues to reveal itself, providing an expanded historical
>account and important lessons for today and the future.
>

This is hilarious and couldn't have been directed at a more deserving
group of sub-human trash.