User talk:PaulaStern

Auschwitz concentration camp
Paula, I could debate for hours as to whether we should say "German" or "Nazi" or "Nazi German". (I have left your change alone). My point would be, I think, that while the Vernichtungslagern, and indeed the Konzentrationslagern were run by the SS, who of course had to be members of the NSDAP, the SS could only have existed and did only exist as an organ of the German State, which from beginning to to end did not, in a free election, demonstrate a Nazi majority. Hence my usage of the phrase "Nazi German" in the article. But it's no big deal.

Your earlier edits were, I am afraid, incorrect. Auschwitz I started life well before the Nazi era as a Polish cavalry barracks, and while the total number of children dying at the camp is not recorded (anywhere), as the total number of deaths was between 1.1 million and 1.6 million there cannot have been over a million children killed there. I am not minimising the situation; I have been to Auschwitz and took a week to recover, but it is important, to prevent holocaust deniers acquiring ammunition, to be accurate.--Anthony.bradbury 22:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)