A bit grim.

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There were two Holocaust survivors interviewed on Today this morning. One of them had survived from being one of the first group arriving until the camp was liberated, one of only two to do so. He managed this by being the barber for the SS officers. It's terrible that survival can depend on these compromises, but he got to know their faces very well and was able to identify and testify against them after the war was over. He spoke of climbing up to  the loft and lifting roof tiles to watch people being  sent into the gas ovens, the door being slammed, an officer climbing to the roof and dropping pellets into a hole and then the screaming that went on for ten or fifteen minutes despite the efforts to drown it out with the sound of engines.

In other news, USG states that the now-freed Guantanamo returnees are still a threat. MRDA, I think.