Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

[Doc Holiday]

Ok, so I'm not normally into documentaries but saw this "Aushwitz: Inside the Nazi State" on Netflix and decided to watch it, it's six 1 hour long episodes and covers pretty much everything you can think of in regard to what not only happened there but other places too.  needless to say it's a very tough thing to watch so it might not be for younger kids but at the same time I think it's something that everyone should watch at some time or another.

 

It's not often that anything I watch draws any kind of emotional reaction, and this did.  One thing when watching that I just could not wrap my mind around is how, unapologetic the Nazi-Germans were about all of what happened.  The cruelty of humans, and a thought that I even talked to my brother about is that it didn't even happen 100 years ago, this isn't distant past it's relatively new and at that probably humanities darkest moment.  It's something I've read about, watched other smaller documentaries about it was covered when I was in high school, but compared to this Documentary it was relatively small amount of time covered about it and maybe its that now I'm old enough to truly understand the scope of what it took place instead of a bored kid in school and everything that I'm now seeing is just finally sinking in.

 

I think the most that we can take out of something like this is just to look at what caused and led up to it, the political extremism, the unquestioned following of orders, and blind extreme bigotry for ones fellow man just because they do not have the same background. and do everything that we can in the future to avoid that.

 

 

I'm just kind of amazed in a bad way by it all.

 

[Ja Rhule]

Make sure to watch a movie "The Pianist"

Those people who think concentrations camps didn't happen are ignorant in my opinion.

[Doyle]

I'll have to give it another shot.  I watched some of it and then decided a comedy might brighten my day a little more.

[Big A]

This is still happening and the case in Rwanda might be even worse because there were no major repurcussions for the perpetrators. Almost a million Jews were killed by Nazis just like in 94 over 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu extremist. In fact, many of the skews does thinking they were waiting to board another train or taking a decontamination shower by gas while the Tutsis were slaughters in terrible machete attacks and invasion of villages where they were run down. Not saying one was worse than other, just pointing out how taken back you were that this happened to Jews only 70 years ago, yet pointing out Rwanda just happened in 94 ad there is still genocide happening in other parts of Africa near Ivory Coast. Also, the govt didnt go after that majority of Hutus, so they are back living in the same communities with the Tutsis they helped massacre. Just sad.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/12/rwanda-genocide-20-years-on

[Doc Holiday]

This is still happening and the case in Rwanda might be even worse because there were no major repurcussions for the perpetrators. Almost a million Jews were killed by Nazis just like in 94 over 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu extremist. In fact, many of the skews does thinking they were waiting to board another train or taking a decontamination shower by gas while the Tutsis were slaughters in terrible machete attacks and invasion of villages where they were run down. Not saying one was worse than other, just pointing out how taken back you were that this happened to Jews only 70 years ago, yet pointing out Rwanda just happened in 94 ad there is still genocide happening in other parts of Africa near Ivory Coast. Also, the govt didnt go after that majority of Hutus, so they are back living in the same communities with the Tutsis they helped massacre. Just sad.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/12/rwanda-genocide-20-years-on

while both incidents are horrible it's estimated that around 6.5m Jews died, along with another 4-5million other European minorities. Totaling about 11million altogether. Rwanda was bad but the Holocaust is far worse. And again both incidents were horrible.

[Happy Panther]

The Nazis were able to convince themselves and the populace that Jews were subhuman. Once this happens remorse goes out the window.

 

It's hard to argue against Hitler as the worst dictator ever. Although he did do some great things for Germany.

 

Pol Pot had no redeeming qualities. And Mao probably killed more people.

 

But the holocaust is exceptional in it's breadth and evil.

 

 

 

[Happy Panther]

I'd like to watch this documentary