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about Auschwitz your Heinrich Himmler Index your Adolf Eichmann Index your your Rudolf Hoess Index your Hans Aumeier Index your Robert Jan Van Pelt Index Aubrey Soper asks questions about a photo of children at Auschwitz, Non-electrified wire at Auschwitz? WITH respect to the Auschwitz photo (below) of two women leading a troop of little kids “to the gas chambers” that you just posted on your website, I’m confused.

If the voltage and current in these familiar fences would kill any adult who touched them, how was it known that kids using this passage would reliably keep their hands in their pockets to ensure their reaching the gas chambers safely? Aubrey Soper [ reply ] [ further comment ]

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Original Publication: 2004-10-12
Digital Archive: Focal Point Publications
Accessed: June 4, 2026