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The oldest survivor of the concentration camps: Extraordinary story of 107-year-old who was imprisoned in THREE Nazi prisons​

  • Leopold Engleitner was given a choice - renounce your faith, or face death in a concentration camp
  • The Austrian chose his religion and suffered at the hands of the Nazis in three different camps
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Handed a simple sheet of paper Leopold Engleitner was given a choice - renounce your faith, or face death in a concentration camp.

With a flick of ink, the Jehovah's Witness could have saved himself from his unknown fate, a fate which saw him starved and forced to labour in not one but three Nazi prisoner camps.

He refused.

At 107 Austrian born Mr Engleitner is the world's oldest known holocaust survivor, and has had a film made about his unfailing faith.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ion-camp-survivor-107-year-old-Christian.html
 
I'm sure he felt that was the right thing to do. Other people perhaps, would have gone the other way and they also would have felt that was the right thing to do.
 
So he avoided a more certain death by avoiding conscription, and accepting slavery instead?
Good choice.
 
So he avoided a more certain death by avoiding conscription, and accepting slavery instead?
Good choice.
No...he would've been freed...
 
No...he would've been freed...
And no longer able to claim being a conscientious objector to avoid being conscripted into the Army. Incarceration and Slavery still seems to be the safer choice.
 
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