How can some publications get things so wrong?
A case in point: An article in Haaretz tittled Survivors of first Nazi shipment to Auschwitz retrace route to honor victims states:
70 years after German troops cramped them into cattle cars, survivors of the first shipment of Jews to the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, Poland, retraced the route of the train route to honor the 1.1 million people who were murdered there, the French news agency AFP reported. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/survivors-of-first-nazi-shipment-t o-auschwitz-retrace-route-to-honor-victims-1.296287
Let's see what AFP reported though:
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, Poland (AFP) – Survivors of the first-ever convoy to Auschwitz paid tribute Monday to the death camp's victims, exactly 70 years after being packed into cattle cars and sent there by German troops.
A train organised by a Polish survivors' organisation arrived at the site of the camp on the outskirts of Oswiecim, southern Poland, after retracing the route of original rail convoy from the town of Tarnow, 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the east.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100614/wl_afp/polandhistorywwiiholocaust jewsauschwitz
The camp was set up for Polish political prisoners in 1940 long before any transports of Jews arrived. Read both articles and compare them. Haaretz doeasn't even mention Poles as prisoners but AFP certainly does:
Haaretz:
Between 1942 and 1945, well over a million Jews, Gypsies, and Soviet POWs were murdered in the hell founded on the orders of SS Reichsfhurer Heinrich Himmler in 1940. AFP:
One million were Jews from Poland and across Nazi-occupied Europe. The camp is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust.
The other victims included some 75,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and up to 15,000 others including resistance members from different occupied nations.
Is this sloppy reporting or is there an agenda?
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