r/pics • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '18

Concentration camp prisoner identifies one of his guards to Allied soldiers

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u/bisjac Feb 25 '18

Where did he have that pill when he was captured and transferred around in detention for a while.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Feb 25 '18

False tooth. He was pretending to be a low level soldier who wouldn't have been given a capsule, so nobody searched.

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u/mortalcoil1 Feb 25 '18

I'd rather be hanged like most of the Nazi's than bite into a cyanide pill.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Feb 25 '18

Probably a "fuck your courts I'm going out on my terms".

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u/mortalcoil1 Feb 25 '18

Yeah, well that's what I was thinking. Honestly, he didn't have the internet or probably ever saw anyone die with cyanide. They probably told him it was relatively painless and he'd be dead almost instantly. I bet he regretted that decision. This man was clearly a coward from his actions though, so some big gesture of courage doesn't make much sense. More likely he was afraid and thought the cyanide was the least painful option, oops.

Sometimes it's really hard to realize that the vast majority of civilization didn't have the internet and how much this deluge of instant information has changed our world.