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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn 60 minutes, "The hidden Holocaust"
A really shuttering, unbelievable story. About how so many Jews did not die in concentration camps, but inside trenches in Eastern Europe. A French priest uncovered graves, and found eyewitnesses.
And, in the back of my and my spouse's mind was the thought that the scenes there reminded us of many in the movie "Everything is illuminated." The dreary landscape.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hidden-holocaust-60-minutes/
(And, yes, Lara Logan is the correspondent. Don't hold it against her, she did an excellent job)
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Making the women watch their babies die first
Townspeople would watch
The ending though with that last man who wanted to say all the names of his Jewish neighbors
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)open pit mass graves, people machined gunned and buried. I didn't know this was a new revelation. The concentration camps came later as the German penchant for efficiency demanded a more systematic approach, and so adapted the concentration camp idea from the British during the Boer wars in S. Africa.
mucifer
(23,521 posts)So they switched to concentration camps.
moondust
(19,966 posts)How many were utterly dehumanized and pulled the trigger willingly vs. how many just followed orders lest they themselves end up at the bottom of the trench. How many volunteered for the Einsatzgruppen knowing what they were getting themselves into?
No surprise that many Holocaust survivors concluded that there is no God, or if there is he doesn't give a shit about what's happening to his divine creation down here.