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Kyle should use his free time to visit Auschwitz

09 Sep 03:08pm

Filed under: Austereo, Holocaust, Kyle Sandilands, Radio, World War Two

Just a few years ago I ended up in Warsaw on a business trip to Poland where my former boss Eric Dodd had been invited to talk to top government officials about reforms to Poland’s embryonic private health system.

Work sets you free: the gates to hell at Dachau.

As a journo and an amateur student of history, I was astonished to learn that our hotel in Warsaw was located on what was previously the Jewish Ghetto in World War II from which tends of thousands were shipped to their deaths.

And just a matter of a few hours drive away was the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp where hundreds of thousands of Jews and gypsies were imprisoned in the most horrific conditions and slaughtered in the gas chambers.

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West End says:

02:35pm | 17/09/09

Daffy Duck, you have stupidly attempted to sidetrack the whole issue. Firstly, there haven’t been millions of deaths in Palestine/Israel, more like thousands ; we can argue about rights and wrongs but the Palestinians still exist as a nation and their population is growing annually which somehow wouldn’t occur if… Read more »
SherpaG says:

11:52pm | 11/09/09

Someone said to me today “It’s ok for Kyle to be a shock jock as long as he doesn’t shock people”....ummm…whaaa? Read more »

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