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“Some fifteen percent of the 6,500 staff members working at Auschwitz would eventually be convicted of war crimes, with the government of Poland being among the most active in investigating and prosecuting war criminals.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Prisoners arrived in Auschwitz on cattle cars, and when they disembarked, they were told to leave their possessions behind on the train. Once they stood on the platform, the prisoners were brutally divided into two lines. Those who looked able-bodied and were able to work were sent to one line, while children, the elderly and the infirm were sent to the other, and were earmarked to be killed at the gas chambers.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“It is not living that matters but living rightly. – Socrates”
― Larry Berg, The Best of Socrates: The Founding Philosophies of Ethics, Virtues & Life

“over half of German Jews had immigrated to countries such as the US, Great Britain, and Palestine, by the time World War II started in 1939.   Harsher measures were enacted against the Jewish people when Germany invaded Poland in an attempt to capture more territory for the Germanic people, which kicked off the start of the war. In order to isolate the Polish Jews as a prelude to their eventual elimination, they were herded into ghettos, where they lived in unhealthy conditions without enough food. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and then started devising plans for a “complete solution to the Jewish question”.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Operation Reinhard, whose ultimate goal was the elimination of Polish Jews living in the “General Government”, an area of occupied Poland under Nazi rule that was designated as a separate administrative region. To implement Operation Reinhard, three killing centers were started at the Lublin District (Sobibor and Belzec) and the Warsaw District (Treblinka II). Prisoners at these killing centers were murdered by being herded into gas chambers where carbon monoxide was pumped in. Some 1.5 million Jews were murdered in these killing centers between March 1942 and November 1943, when Sobibor and Treblinka ceased operations following prisoner uprisings. Only 300 prisoners were known to have survived these killing centers, mainly escapees who managed to get away from the camps during the uprisings.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Floggings were usually held during evening roll call, at the courtyard or other public place. The flogging was administered using a bullwhip or heavy sticks. The prisoner called out the number of blows in German and if he lost count, the punishment would start from the beginning.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“King Jr. asked, “How could I love a race of people who hated me?”
― Larry Berg, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Lessons from the King Who Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr Revealed

“Because of these unhealthy rations, prisoners quickly became emaciated as their bodies consumed their stores of fat. A significant number of prisoners died of starvation sickness. If they did not die, they were frequently sent to the gas chambers.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“The biggest killing center, however, was located in the Polish town of Auschwitz, which was found to the southwest. The Nazis called it Auschwitz-Birkenau, and it was established in the spring of 1942.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” –Bruce Lee”
― Larry Berg, The Best of Bruce Lee: Life Lessons from the Most Influential Hong Kong Dragon Martial Artist: Bruce Lee Revealed

“helping is achieved by having compassion.”
― Larry Berg, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Lessons from the King Who Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr Revealed

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Larry Berg, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Lessons from the King Who Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr Revealed

“There were also 45 sub-camps at Auschwitz, each of which housed prisoners working at a factory serving a German company, such as Siemens-Schuckert and Krupp. 28 of these camps served companies involved in the armaments industry and the camps housed from several dozen to several thousand prisoners. Among the industries represented at the satellite camps were metal works, foundries and coal mines although prisoners were also made to work at farming and forestry.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“No rest periods were allowed to prisoners during the working day, and even their bathroom breaks were strictly prescribed. A prisoner was assigned to the latrines to measure how much time a prisoner took to void their bladders and bowels.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Prisoners were also poorly fed. Although they were given three meals a day, the food was unappetizing. In the morning, they were only given a coffee-like brew which consisted of boiled water with a grain-based coffee substitute. Lunch was a liter of soup which consisted of potatoes and rutabagas along with rye flour and some groats.  Supper was 300 grams of black bread along with some sausage or other spread like cheese, margarine or marmalade. The bread was also supposed to last until morning, but the prisoners were so famished they usually ate the whole portion of bread at one sitting.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“All types of knowledge, ultimately leads to self-knowledge." –Bruce Lee     After”
― Larry Berg, The Best of Bruce Lee: Life Lessons from the Most Influential Hong Kong Dragon Martial Artist: Bruce Lee Revealed

“I always learn something, and that is: to always be yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate him". –Bruce Lee         The”
― Larry Berg, The Best of Bruce Lee: Life Lessons from the Most Influential Hong Kong Dragon Martial Artist: Bruce Lee Revealed

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars...”
― Larry Berg, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Lessons from the King Who Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr Revealed

“Those prisoners who were earmarked as slave labor lived in extremely harsh conditions. During the first few months of the camp’s existence, prisoners in Auschwitz I slept on straw-stuffed mattresses and were so overcrowded that they could only sleep lying on their sides. Their only access to water came from two wells and they had to relieve themselves in outdoor latrines.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Be constantly civil. Martin Luther King Jr. had shown without fail his fortitude on abiding the laws of civility. In the confines of darkness, ugliness and violence, he held on to his belief of practiced civil discourse. He never gave in to the anger or the emotion he feels, instead he tried to rise above it, and he showed it in the remarkable speeches he gave. He showed his fight in a civil way.”
― Larry Berg, Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Lessons from the King Who Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr Revealed

“In order to implement the “Final Solution”, the Nazis established ‘killing centers’, which were distinct from ‘concentration camps.’ The camps were essentially detention and forced labor centers where small groups were targeted for elimination. Killing centers, which were also known as ‘death camps’ or ‘extermination camps’ were essentially factories for slaughtering people.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Once the sorting was done, the prisoners’ possessions were brought to an area of the camp ironically dubbed “Canada,” because it was believed that that country possessed great riches. The possessions were sorted by a select group of prisoners and sent back to Germany, although some would be stolen by the SS guards.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Operation Reinhard,”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which was the first of a series of legislative measures restricting Jewish people from practicing in the various professions and the Nuremberg Laws, a set of measures which not only restricted marriages between Jewish people and those of German decent but also stripped Jewish people of German citizenship.   Economic pressure was also enacted against Jewish businesses, which were denied access to markets, not allowed to compete for government contracts and forbidden from advertising in newspapers.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“More than 10,000 prisoners from other ethnic groups were also imprisoned in Auschwitz. These included Czechs, most of whom were members of the patriotic organization Sokol; Frenchmen and women who were political prisoners; Germans and Austrians, who were mostly political prisoners or imprisoned for common crimes; Slovenes and prisoners from virtually all European countries. There were even Jehovah’s Witnesses who were imprisoned at Auschwitz for their religious convictions, as well as homosexuals.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“Although Auschwitz is widely known as a death camp, more than half of the registered prisoners actually died as a result of overwork, starvation and the inhuman living conditions.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“In 1945 Himmler ordered the camps to be evacuated and charged the commanders with ensuring that not one of the prisoners would fall into Allied hands. On January 17, some 60,000 detainees from Auschwitz were evacuated on foot and sent on a death march to the city of Wodzislaw. Those who could not continue or who fell behind were shot by the SS guards. Some 15,000 died during the march and the survivors were taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany where they were liberated by British forces in April 1945.”
― Larry Berg, Auschwitz: The Shocking Story & Secrets of the Holocaust Death Camp

“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that. I want to do that.” – Princess Diana   Aside”
― Larry Berg, Princess Diana: Her Royal Story and Lessons for Life Changing Success: Princess Diana Revealed

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – JFK”
― Larry Berg, JFK: The Secrets of John F. Kennedy & His Assassination

“Be formless ... shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You pour water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or creep or drip or crash! Be water, my friend...” –Bruce Lee         After”
― Larry Berg, The Best of Bruce Lee: Life Lessons from the Most Influential Hong Kong Dragon Martial Artist: Bruce Lee Revealed