I'm watching a Netflix series title Auschwitz, The Nazis & The Final Solution
So far I’ve watched 3 and a half episodes. It is the most in depth coverage I’ve seen of the Holocaust and specifically about about the death camps and how they were developed chronologically through the years into the killing factories the allies found at the end of the war.
As a historical series it’s really outstanding in showing what and how it all developed from soldiers shooting the Jews in entire towns on the edges of a pit to the German determination to find an efficient way to murder all the Jews in Europe. There is a lot of real footage used, mixed with recreations with actors to interviews with survivors and Germans soldiers who worked in the camps who are alive today, living normal lives.
Episode 3 is particularly difficult because it deals with how the children were were treated from even before the camps were built, specifically as death camps. Of course, the story of Dr Mengele is included whose story is told by survivors. At this point I had to take a break and I decided to come to DU to post about it.
I’ve seen a lot of history and footage about the Holocaust because I’ve always known that yes, it can happen here. But this is the first time I’ve seen it with the knowledge that there are alarming signs that it’s beginning to happen here. The early Nazi history was also seemingly innocuous and started in ways that are similar to what we see here today. I wouldn’t be quite so worried now except for the children in detention camps on the border who were forcibly taken from their parents. Who are still taken from their parents now, in the present and our government ignores our Court’s orders to reunite the families.
I recommend for everyone who can to watch this series. For those of us who have studied and learned about the Holocaust it will turn out to be a thorough historical series tying our scattered knowledge together into greater understanding. It will also have an impact because of what is happening now. We can no longer be complacent that it won’t happen here. It serves as an educational warning and how to see the emerging patterns in our own country. This monstrous underbelly is beginning to cast an ugly shadow in our country now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz:_The_Nazis_and_'The_Final_Solution'
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Now, I'm going to have to watch it again.
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Earlier today I was thinking about parallels between the early Nazis and the current Trumpers and if it could happen here. Both were/are largely rooted in the idea of the white "master race"/white supremacy. One thing I think we can be thankful for is that the U.S. is a diverse "melting pot." I believe the population of Germany in the 1930s was quite homogeneous (not diverse) which probably had a lot to do with why so many Germans got sucked into the Nazi cult.
I believe the Final Solution was largely planned/discussed at the villa Am Großen Wannsee 56–58. When I was stationed in Berlin in the 70s the building was a recreation center for U.S. troops. I was there a few times but didn't know then that it was the site of the Wannsee Conference.
The atrocities and murders that 'Dr. Joseph Mengele' and others committed is horrifying, and not that long ago.
BBC, "The Twins of Auschwitz," Jan. 2015. When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp 70 years ago many of the prisoners had been killed or marched away by the retreating Nazis. But among those left were some twin children - the subject of disturbing experiments by Dr Josef Mengele.
Vera Kriegel and her twin sister Olga were just five years old when they were taken from their village in Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz. Transported in cattle cars which were so tightly packed that the dead were still standing, she recalls the "sheer terror" of arriving at the camp and treading on "dead people like steps" as she left the train.
New arrivals at the camp were sorted into the weak, who would be gassed straight away, and the strong, who would be made to work. But Mengele and his assistants were there too, looking for twins.
Vera, her sister, and her mother were taken straight to SS Captain Josef Mengele. He was intrigued, she says, by what he described as her mother's "perfect Aryan features" and blue eyes, while Vera's and her sister's were brown. Read More..
Read More, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718
- Children at Auschwitz show the identification numbers printed on their arms
Auschwitz twin survivor Eva Kors who is still here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mozes_Kor
'Angel of Death,' Dr. Joseph Mengele conducted monstrous experiments on Jewish & Roma twin children at Auschwitz.
