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Denis Winters' analysis of the relationship between the boxcars that took German soldiers to die in the First World War and the boxcars that took Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust is correct. Hitler enacted a phantasy on the stage of reality: "Do unto others as had been done unto you." How diabolical!
In his study of the First World War, Denis Winter (1979) writes about the experience of German soldiers as they were transported to battle in box cars:
"After the stint at base, the railway took the men toward the front line. To a generation with visual memories of the railway lines running into Hitler’s death camps, tense faces peering from cattle trucks, there is something disconcerting about the imagery of this journey from base camp.
"The soldiers went in waggons of the same type, forty of them in each waggon, kit hanging from hoods in the roof. Death was a high probability for both generations of travelers in these cattle trucks."
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| The boxcars that transported Jews to their deaths in the Holocaust were the same boxcars that transported German soldiers to their deaths in the First World War. |
Photo directly below: German soldiers in cattle (freight) cars on their way to France to fight in the First World War. Many were slaughtered at the Western Front.
These were Innocent, young men who had no clue that they were heading toward death. |
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| Photo Below: Jews in cattle-cars as they embark in cattle-cars on their way to death at the Chelmno death camp. |
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