"Arthur Dodd: A British Soldier in Auschwitz" Topic

"Few today will not have heard of Auschwitz. A mere mention of its name conjures up horrific images of evil, suffering and death. It is estimated that 1.1 million people were murdered in the camp, around 90% of who were Jews. Others included Poles, Romani and Sinti, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and others who the Nazis wanted to dispose of. Most were gassed using the notorious Zyklon B pesticide, while others died of starvation, being worked to death or becoming victims of arbitrary executions. All this, of course, is well-known. What is not so well-known, despite several TV documentaries and a book on the subject, is the fact that British soldiers were held as prisoners of war in a camp attached to Auschwitz III. One of these men was Arthur Dodd.

A native of Northwich in Cheshire, Dodd's father had served in the British Army in both the Boer War and World War One. Initially, Dodd did not follow in his father's military footsteps, instead he left school in 1934 to take up an apprenticeship as a mechanic. Several years later, while working for the Weaver Navigation Company, he was involved in an accident that injured his foot. When Dodd finally made the decision to enlist in the army, his foot injury prevented him joining the infantry. Nevertheless, due to the fact he had an HGV licence and his training as a mechanic he was permitted to enter the Royal Army Service Corps…"
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Just another example of how barbaric the German people were during WWII.

Agree.

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