Revisiting The Horrors Of The Holocaust (CBS News)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

Revisiting The Horrors Of The Holocaust
Millions Of Nazi Documents Are Being Made Available To The Public
Dec. 17, 2006

For the first time, secrets of the Nazi Holocaust that have been hidden away for more than 60 years are finally being made available to the public. We’re not talking about a missing filing cabinet - we’re talking about thousands of filing cabinets, holding 50 million pages. It's Hitler’s secret archive.

The Nazis were famous for record keeping but what 60 Minutes found ran from the bizarre to the horrifying. This Holocaust history was discovered by the Allies in dozens of concentration camps, as Germany fell in the spring of 1945. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, the documents were taken to a town in the middle of Germany, called Bad Arolsen, where they were sorted, filed and locked way, never to be seen by the public until now.

The storerooms are immense: 16 miles of shelves holding the stories of 17 million victims – not only Jews, but slave laborers, political prisoners and homosexuals. To open the files is to see the Holocaust staring back like it was yesterday: strange pink Gestapo arrest warrants as lethal as a death sentence, jewelry lost as freedom ended at the gates of an extermination camp. Time stopped here in 1945.

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When Germany, last spring, became the last of 11 countries to agree, they began the process of opening the archive. It will take about a year. But 60 Minutes brought three men to Bad Arolsen for an advance look. Walter Feiden, Miki Schwartz and Jack Rosenthal are the first Holocaust survivors ever in the archive.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/14/60minutes/main2267927.shtml

[rpannier]

1. Tragic it took so long to get out

Thanks for the post.

on note: They ought to make copies of every document and ship them to Iran's bush equivalent.
Although, he'd still deny it.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Those anti-Semites tend to explain away evidence

as forgeries of the "Zionist World Government". I don't know whether they really do believe in said conspiracy, or like mentioned downthread that they're just sad that Hitler didn't get to complete his work.

[cwydro]

2. That was an incredible story

and so sad, listening to those old men.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I don't understand how Iran could have had the "conference" on whether

the Holocaust "really" happened when the German government has admitted its former entity, the Third Reich, was responsible, and has the records to prove it. If Iran won't listen to survivors, how about the instigators?

[cali]

4. Holocaust Questioners or

Deniers or whatever you want to call them, have no interest in facts or the truths. They have an agenda.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. OK, that makes sense to me.

Thanks.

[geek tragedy]

6. Holocaust deniers don't doubt that it happened. They're

just upset that Hitler didn't finish the job.

Every Holocaust denier--whether British, American, Australian, or Persian--ought to wear a swastika on their arm for public disclosure purposes.

[Selatius]

5. The government here wants us all registered and in databases, too.

The government says this is in the interests of national security. OK, we get in the database with things like REAL ID with the national ID card, microchips in passports, and so forth. We get things like the Patriot Act and the NSA spying.

This also makes it more convenient for the government to single out "enemies of the state." If you're a Green Party member, a union activist, a socialist, an anarchist, or somebody who is overly critical of authority, you are now that much more easily identified.

I know that KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, won a government contract when the government decides that it is time to build large camps to house a lot of people in cases of national emergencies, but they did not define what exactly is an emergency.

They just need an excuse now. Just an excuse.

[cali]

7. It's clear you

have no idea what's in the recently opened files. It details, quite simply, a machinery of death. Alarming as I find the recent encroachment on our civil liberties, it's hardly comparable. And we have people who will shortly have real power, who are fighting against these abuses, like my own dear Senator, Pat Leahy.