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- I wonder if CBS would be willing to do a special report on the pre-holocaust holocaust of the physically and mentally ill in Nazi Germany?
So many people do not know about these events. - Reply to this comment
- libdude55 You should get hold of your local Jehovah's Witnesses and ask for information.
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- My grandfather was one of those soldiers that saw the death camps and gas chambers and cyclon-B gas and the ovens with human remains still smoldering and we let people get away with denighing all that today. The basis for our moral standing today is no better than the Nazis. Anyone that denighs these things happened should be chained together and marched into a retraining facility, forced to watch all the film documentation that the Allies accumulated of the horrors they saw then march these A***SES to Auschwitts and the other camps and chain them to the ground till they can smell the remains of charred flesh still there in the soil.
Our family has never found out what happened to my G.G.Uncle who went back to Poland to see how his mother was in 1929. The only thing the family ever recieved was his passport with the swasticka stamped on it that he had arrived. - Reply to this comment
- The Jews have truly suffered. It makes me afraid each time I read about the holocaust and the extent of man's cruelty against others. But do you know what I fear most? God and His word. Read the Bible and you will find everything that happened to the Jews and that will still happen in future.
The Bible is the most current news of all. Knowing what it contains will help to avoid entering into another holocaust blindfolded. - Reply to this comment
- Why did the Red Cross withhold this information for 60 years? The International R.C. is headquartered in Switzerland.
Had the Swiss told them to withhold like the Swiss withhold Jewish accounts?
The archives are housed in Germany. Did the Germans tell them to seal the archives, to avoid exposing their atrocities?
Did the R.C. wait until most of us are dead? Well, I am not! I am a survivor and 92 years old.
I am very angry about this delay!!! - Reply to this comment
- Why is it that right-wingers are so empty headed? If they so stupid as to deny history, they WILL repeat it. It's happening every day.
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- Come now, CBS. If ever a nation was collectively culpable, it's Germany. Yet in "revisiting" the horrors of the Holocaust, we heard only "the Nazis"--never "the Germans." Why the camouflaging historical label for Germany?
All Germans were not Nazi party members, notwithstanding the soldiers' sworn allegiance to Hitler. But you have only to revisit footage of the Hitler-adoring populace for the full scope of the locomotive and synchronized forces behind the German killing machine. Moreover, we don%u2019t say %u201Cthe Imperialists%u201D killed some 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians in Nanking, and raped over 20,000 women; we say, %u201CJapan%u201D or %u201Cthe Japanese%u201D committed this 1937 atrocity. Why not the same articulation when %u201Crevisiting%u201D the Germany of WWII?
On the other hand, in a retrospective on Joseph Stalin, we should not hold an entire populace accountable for mass-murder as part of the national outlook. So it would be inapt to say %u201CRussians murdered,%u201D when we should say, for example, %u201CDuring his dictatorship, Joseph Stalin had tens of millions of ordinary individuals executed or imprisoned in labor-death camps. Often driven by a political paranoia, his murderous purges consumed an estimated 40 million people!%u201D
You are planning to similarly %u201Crevisit%u201D the Stalin era, aren%u2019t you? Complete with paper documentation and survivors? - Reply to this comment
- Why not interview someone who was not a Jew? Who
speaks for the millions of non-Jewish victims who
suffered the same horrors as millions of Jews? I'm not minimizing or deflecting attention away
from the enormous suffering of Jews at the hands
of the Nazis. But they were not alone in their
suffering, and it's hard to tell that when virtually every book, tv show and movie dealing
with the Holocaust focuses almost exclusively on
Jewish victims. Maybe I'm just not aware of info
on non-Jewish victims, so I'd be happy to check
out any sources that can be pointed to me. I just
wonder how so many victims of this insanity could
just be invisible. Who speaks for the 5 million
without voices? - Reply to this comment
- My uncle was an American GI that helped liberate some of those concentration camps. Oh Yeah!...It did happen all right. My cousin showed me his personal picture collection of the medical and hygene assistance setup to keep the survivors alive. They would walk around like zombies, often with no cloths as they were completely demoralized at the time. The first one that they liberated, he said that one of the prisoners was showing them around the camp as to what had happened there. My uncles' captain called him and his men over to the jeep for something and as soon as they got there, about 40 or 50 of the survivors attacked the one prisoner and beat him to death. At that time the GI's were told that the one "survivor" was really one of the camps gaurds so they did'nt intervene. Several of the attackers died from their weakened condition. It took them almost a half hour for them to kill the man. My uncle said that mans head looked as big as a basketball when they finished.
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- About 25 years ago, I knew a holocaust death camp survivor working at Ferro Corporation in Culver City California. He was about 14 at the time and earned the right to live by doing favors for the guards. I did not request any specifics of what that meant, bur now realize that it meant *** favors. Other survivors will most probably tell similar stories.I don't remember whether his name was Swartz or something similar
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