Gulags or concentration camps ?

[Richard Haut]

Apparently the UN is keen that the EU should investigate reports of America using "gulags" to detain its dubiously-held prisoners in Europe.

What gives this credibility ? Two things: firstly the howling of the GOPs to find out who told on them (and pressure on the Washington Post not to tell any more), and a Czech Government Minister spilling the beans by stating that his Government had turned down a US request to have such a facility in the Czech Republic.

So where are the Gulags/concentration camps ?

It appears that one may be near the Romanian coastal city of Constanta, while another seems likely to be in Poland.

Interesting location. Szczytno-Szymany Airport has apparently been used for CIA "grey" flights. No ordinary airport - special permission is required to use it, and a "facility" is rumoured to be nearby.

What makes this particularly interesting from an historic point of view is that that is not all that is nearby.

As America digs in to spread its Bush-style peace-through-horror, architects happy to work for the GOP-freaks may draw some inspiration from a site some forty or fifty kilometres north of Szczytno. A few kilometres east of the town of Ketrzyn is the village of Gierloz.

These are the borderlands between Gdansk and Bialystok, the land of a thousand lakes: Mazuria

It was here - at the village of Gierloz - that Adolf Hitler had his eastern command centre, the notorious Wolf's Lair - "Wolfschanze". A huge 27 acre underground complex where Goering, Bormann, Himmler and Hitler had their own private bunkers. Most of it is still there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wolfsschanze%2C_Gierloz%2C_Poland_2.jpg

However, the rest of us will be remembering another visitor to the Wolfschanze: Colonel Claus Philipp Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.

[Ed Ziomek]

Rich. You are amazing. I guess next week it will be in the NY Times. Keep giving us the news we read next week.