Impressive warning from concentrationcamp survivor Don Bamberg.



After surviving 11 German concentrationcamps
Don Bamberg received a letter, written in a camp
during the Second World War.

PUTTEN

Remembrance of the deportation



Hundreds of people young and old came
to the remembrance park with the statue
The widow of Putten.



On 2 oct 1944 the Germans arrested 600 men in the village Putten after a attack by resistance fighters on German soldiers.

552 of them did not survive.

On saturday 2 oct 2010 i was invited to this remembrance in the small village of Putten and was suprised by the enormous number of people, young and old, which came to this remembrance in the rain.

It was very impressive and this shows that the interest for our history is allive, which is important to learn from the mistakes from the past and to remember the victims from war and terror.

After the remembrance the concentrationcamp survivor Don Bamberg signed his new book.

The room was crowded with hundreds of people.

First there was a speech from a ex-Whermacht soldier which fought east of Berlin in

the Second Wolrd War and told that he was wrong during the war and was ashamed of himselve and asked for forgivving. He is now active in an initiative to remember the victims from the KZ Engehafe in Germany, where also people from Putten died.

Carl Osterwald

Ex-Wehrmacht soldier asked

for forgivving.

Its important for the youngest generation after the war to learn about the past and the mistakes which where made. The impressive words from Carl Osterwald are important to understand what happened.





Let us forgive but never forget.

The presentation of the book :
Don Bamberg Dossier NN.
Lost in Hitlers Third Reich.

In the speech from Don Bamberg was a important message to be heard :
It can happen again !
If a great man which survived 11 concentration camps during the Second World War warns us, we must be on alert !
He sees connections in times from the past and what is happening now.
He gave us a quote from Bertholt Brecht :
Der Schoss ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch !

With lots of thoughts on my mind i drove home in my car after an impressive evening starting with the remembrance and finished with historical words from a great man, and with me the book he wrote signed with his name.

On the left the old book from 1985 (incompleet version).

On the right the new compleet version.