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LadyEllen -> RE: Auschwitz hero Denis Avey in line for Israeli honour" (4/5/2010 5:24:11 AM)
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Good for him - I watched the piece they did on him a couple of months back; truly incredible bravery to risk it once, let alone twice, posing as a Jewish inmate. And we shouldnt forget the decency of his counterpart either, in swapping back after each occasion, knowing it was almost certain death to go back.
Denis was apparently sent to Auschwitz for being a problem prisoner who played the nazis up something terrible. You wouldnt think so to look at him now, but he was one heck of a hellraiser in his youth, as he admitted himself on the broadcast I watched. He saved Ernst with two things from what I remember - he gave Ernst some strong boots and he provided cigarettes. Denis thought Ernst had perished in the camps, but as it turned out Ernst had survived and only died relatively recently. From what I recall, I think Denis said he survived the Dresden bombing too, having been evacuated that way by the nazis (along with thousands of others, which is why Dresden was so awful).
Such a shame that this generation is now passing so quickly. Its unbelievable as it is that certain idiots call them all liars and frauds and have been these last 65 years. It will only get more difficult to avoid a repeat if its left to us second hand witnesses to testify, against the majority environment of imbeciles in the modern world.
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