Holocaust Reminder

~ beetleypete

In 2023, there are still many deniers of the mass killing of millions of Jews and other prisoners by Germany during WW2. Even faced with overwhelming evidence and personal testimony, some still refuse to believe the events ever happened.

So I am posting this short film clip to remind the rest of us, the sane ones, that it did.

55 thoughts on “Holocaust Reminder”

  10. I am always fascinated reading about WWII. Have you read Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl? It is a true story and he detailed his ordeal in a concentration camp in this book. BTW, could not view the video again.

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  12. Thank you for sharing this Pete…I am ashamed that I live in a country with far too many deniers of history – as far back as the Holocaust and as recent as 9/11 and the attempt to overthrow our government…seditious traitors all.

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  13. We visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC last fall. There is a powerful quote inscribed on the outside.
    “The things I saw beggar description. … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering… I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.'”
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote this in an April 1945 – Who knew such a day would come?

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    1. Despite all the momuments and museums, the personal testimonies, and even evidence filmed by the Germans themselves, so many people continue to deny it ever happened. That sort of mindset makes me fear for the future.
      Best wishes, Pete.

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    1. Not yet, but I have checked it out, and it is available for another 11 months on i-player, which is great news. I watched ‘Schindler’s List’ again the other night. I always see something new in that powerful film. I think it is Spielberg’s best by far.
      Best wishes, Pete.

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  16. When we visited friends in France, they said there was a place about an hour’s drive away where a concentration camp was during WWII. Even today they said still no birds sing there. It’s a terrible thing that there are some people who deny the Holocaust ever existed.

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  17. Over 1.1 million people were murdered in Auschwitz alone. Over 6 million in total. It is horrendous and those who want to pretend it never happened will attempt to lead us back to such horrors. Hate knows no boundaries.

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    1. Sadly, it is not just a few deniers. There are many thousands of them trying to change history. I worry that the current book-banning in America will one day include so many truths about WW2.
      Best wishes, Pete.

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  20. It is the deniers who will lead us back to that awful chapter. How are we to teach young people about this obscenity and others when government makes it illegal to refer to them. Not only this holocaust but hundreds of societies that are inconvenient, such as those who are persecuted in China. Cambodia. Burma….human wickedness is profane. Films like this should be forced watching. It is the least we can do to honour those who who lost their lives. Have you been to Auschwitz? I’m not sure I would be brave enough and if I saw people behaving as tourists, I think I would lose it. But maybe people are more respectful than I give them credit for.

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    1. I have not been to Poland, but I did visit the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on a tour of East Germany. One of the tour party was a survivor of the camp, and he thought it was in bad taste that they had a souvenir shop. I was told in the shop that the selling of the (quite tasteful) souvenirs helped to pay for the upkeep of the camp as a museum.
      Best wishes, Pete.

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  22. Being blind I couldn’t follow the video as there was no sound. I see subtitles are present so it’s a pity that whoever created the film didn’t add audio description.

    However the above niggle on my part pails into insignificance when compared to the horrors of the Nazi Final Solution.

    As someone who is disabled (registered blind), I find it both interesting and shocking that prior to the mass extermination of Jews, gipsies and others regarded as “subhuman” by the Third Reich, the Action T-4 programme saw the forced sterilisation of disabled people and the murder of many of them, first by starvation, drug overdoses and (later) by the use of poison gas. So before the gassing of Jews in the concentration camps the use of gas had already been trialled on people with disabilities.

    Its interesting that so-called “revisionist” historians (those who deny or downplay the holocaust) don’t deny the murder of the disabled under T-4, but they do deny the mass extermination of Jewish people.

    The use of eugenics reached its most extreme form under the Nazis. However, it had been widely embraced by people on the left and right of politics prior to the horrors of the Third Reich. For example members of the left-wing Fabian Society advocated eugenics while at one point in his life the great Sir Winston Churchill also spoke in favour of it (although he later repudiated it). Unlike the USA there where no mass sterilisations here in the UK, but some Nazis looked favourably on the eugenics policies of the USA (although, in the case of the states very few eugenicists advocated the killing of disabled people).

    I think the trial of the historian David Irving helped to discredit the revisionist narrative although there are, of course people who still peddle it.

    Best wishes. Kevin

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    1. Thanks for adding that extra history, Kevin. I was aware of the killing of disabled people (and gays and communists) starting before WW2. They even trialled the use of trucks with exhaust pipes fed directly into the sealed back, and took them to homes and hospitals to kill those poor people and children.
      Best wishes, Pete.

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