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Originally Posted by General Mayhem  I forget where I saw this. It was an interview of a former internee. She was talking about she and her sister interned at Auschwitz, I think. The gist was this: "Two days before our camp was liberated by the Russians my sister died of typhus. I dug her grave with my bare hands. It was nothing more than luck. I wasn't better than my sister. I wasn't a better person, more devout, anything. The day after the liberation I saw a young girl from the nearby town walking to school carrying her books. I was dumbfounded. For me life had stopped. I couldn't comprehend that outside of this place there were girls my own age who's lives had continued as though none of this had happened. As though I had been on another planet." a rough paraphrase. |
I think this may have been at another camp other than Auschwitz.No normal civilised life style was allowed for the Polish people within the Government General administration of occupied Poland.On the other hand,there may have been families of those Germans involved in the Auschwitz operations close to the camp but I would think that after the Russians took Auschwitz,this type of activity would have been quickly ended.From what I understand these "service famililies"vanished as fast as the those running the camp did before the Russians came on the scene. However it is typical of what GM relates and what was happening in the vicinity of the non extermination camps.
I am sure that the Germans civilians carried on outside camps such as Belsen and Mauthausen as though they knew nothing of the activities within.Recently I saw a documentary on Mauthausen when SS wives were interviewed and this was recent so these women were at an elderly age but still saw little wrong with what went off in the camp as they led their Nation Socialist lives just outside of the camp in married quarters.Having visited the camp, those houses are still there and an interview appeared to be located there.