Seventy-five years ago, we learned what humanity was capable of.
Read Emily's whole thread.
If you ever get a chance, check out a series of documentaries produced by a man named Guido Knopp and entitled "Hitler's Holocaust." If you don't want to buy this (assuming it's for sale), I saw it on my smart phone on one of the many free TV/movie apps that you can download.
I have to warn you, though, that this is one of the most harrowing and awful things you will ever see because Knopp does not hold back. Pictures of dead bodies, some of them quite gruesome, are shown directly and frequently all through this series.
And you have not lived until you've seen a picture of the results of some Nazis or Nazi-sympathizers (of whom there were FAR more than you'd like to think that there would be among people who believed themselves to be Christians) somewhere or other trying to burn the corpses of dead Jews. There was a layer of cordwood, a layer of bodies, another layer of cordwood, another layer of bodies, etc.
I see that picture in my dreams.
Then there were the stories the survivors told. One after another, we hear of the everyday humiliations of people who had always thought of themselves as good and loyal Germans. Humiliations that gradually got more and more intense until they culminated in being loaded into trains with long lines of cattle cars and which ended up at Auschwitz.
Then there was Auschwitz, etc.
Seriously. It's a terrible thing to watch. But you need to watch it.
You need to know how it was.
Read Emily's whole thread.
If you ever get a chance, check out a series of documentaries produced by a man named Guido Knopp and entitled "Hitler's Holocaust." If you don't want to buy this (assuming it's for sale), I saw it on my smart phone on one of the many free TV/movie apps that you can download.
I have to warn you, though, that this is one of the most harrowing and awful things you will ever see because Knopp does not hold back. Pictures of dead bodies, some of them quite gruesome, are shown directly and frequently all through this series.
And you have not lived until you've seen a picture of the results of some Nazis or Nazi-sympathizers (of whom there were FAR more than you'd like to think that there would be among people who believed themselves to be Christians) somewhere or other trying to burn the corpses of dead Jews. There was a layer of cordwood, a layer of bodies, another layer of cordwood, another layer of bodies, etc.
I see that picture in my dreams.
Then there were the stories the survivors told. One after another, we hear of the everyday humiliations of people who had always thought of themselves as good and loyal Germans. Humiliations that gradually got more and more intense until they culminated in being loaded into trains with long lines of cattle cars and which ended up at Auschwitz.
Then there was Auschwitz, etc.
Seriously. It's a terrible thing to watch. But you need to watch it.
You need to know how it was.
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