tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post5868601062644509542..comments2013-04-28T14:44:48.079+02:00Comments on JEREMY DUNS: Unbelievable storiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-21975428236297639882012-10-24T19:07:52.354+02:002012-10-24T19:07:52.354+02:00A pistol (Luger) is an officer's personal weap...A pistol (Luger) is an officer's personal weapon. A Feldwebel (NCO) would not normally carry such a weapon.Philip C Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506199502085466202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-46747880559539907052012-04-16T19:49:14.900+02:002012-04-16T19:49:14.900+02:00Thanks for the comment, 'semper veritas'. ...Thanks for the comment, 'semper veritas'. Perhaps your belief in Mr Avey's story would be dented if you read my article above. You'll see, for instance, that I'm well aware of the difference between the various camps - but that Mr Avey doesn't seem to have too firm a knowledge of them, as he has claimed on separate occasions to have broken into Monowitz and Birkenau. I haven't commented on his being Ginger at all, and have no reason to doubt that part of the story. But the book wasn't titled 'The Man Who Gave Cigarettes to Ernst Lobethal', either, and wouldn't have sold as it had done if that had been the focus of the book. Avey told the Imperial War Museum Ernst helped him get into Birkenau, where there was an Australian stoker. In the book, Ernst was not involved, he says he went to Monowitz, and no mention was made of Donald Watt, for perhaps obvious reasons. I suggest you read the piece I've written, read up some more, and then think if what you've written still stacks up. I don't think it does.Jeremy Dunshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14442728222534667107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-2921648989809505632012-04-16T19:25:45.846+02:002012-04-16T19:25:45.846+02:00Denis Avey was a POW in a British Camp situated so...Denis Avey was a POW in a British Camp situated some few hundred metres from the Concentration Camp for Jewish prisoners at Monowitz industrial site at Auschwitz. The Jewish Camp was known as Auschwitz III.<br />Virtually nothing remains of this camp now. However the smaller base camp with brick buildings of Auschwitz I, several kilometres away still exists, as does Auschwitz II camp at Birkenau, where the railway enters the camp.<br /><br />I have read that one of the claims that AVEY was NOT known as ginger, is because at 93 his hair is no longer ginger. Ginger haired people tend to have many freckles on their skin. Look at the images of 93 year old AVEY and see the freckles of a man who may well have had ginger hair in his younger years.a<br /><br />As strange as it may seem, I do believe Mr Avey did enter the Jewish Camp of Auschwitz III at Monowitz.<br />If the book was titled 'I broke into Auschwitz III, most people would not know what that was about- hence, I imagine, a Book Title that was more understandable.semper veritashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14142515970014041194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138728502354978457.post-54695084949874677572011-11-04T12:47:19.293+01:002011-11-04T12:47:19.293+01:00In the BBC house magazine Ariel Broomby stated tha...In the BBC house magazine Ariel Broomby stated that he travelled to Brmingham to try to verify Avey's claim that Avey helped Ernst survive the camps. In the book however Avey had been convinced that Ernst could not have survived the death march until after Broomby went to Brimingham and brought back evidence which convinced him otherwise.<br /><br />The Ariel article is at <br />http://www.ex-bbc.net/Ariel/Arielwk11.2010.pdf page 5<br /><br />"At 91, the bizarre story of his time as a POW in a camp connected to Auschwitz and how he helped a young German Jew, Ernst Lobethal, urvive the concentration camp by smuggling him cigarettes, might have remained just a tale; an impossible story to verify....<br />Over the years I tried to verify his tale, but could never trace the only known link between Ernst and Denis, Ernst’s sister Susanna. Eventually Patrick and I decided to go to her last known address in Solihull, and look for her."Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10842300322890335816noreply@blogger.com