Never Again
Saturday, 2. August 2008, 08:04:07
This is not going to be a pleasant entry to go through.
If you choose to do so anyway, you will be "rewarded" with a first hand impression of what humans can do to each other when at their most extreme.
When I was at school in the early seventies, the following footage was shown to us. Prior to that, the question whether we as 13 year olds should be seeing this was intensively debated. This debate was taken at the school board, between the teachers and together with our parents, we were told.
The outcome of the debate was, that we at our most receptive age should see the film in order to let it do it's part to ensure that nothing like it would never happen again.
My family was very influenced by what this film has to say. Therefore it had maybe an even more profound influence on me than on most. Even today at my 48th year I can't help crying over it in desperation and grief.
The film is a collection of different footage taken as the Nazi concentration camps were found and liberated just after the German surrender following the second world war. The full collection takes almost an hour to watch. Watching it is most disturbing, most necessary and most interesting.
You know, this could happen to anybody. Anybody could be treated as we Europeans were during that damned war - just as any of us could be one of the people doing these atrocities, if we don't keep our minds and hearts sane and healthy.
Please - watch it, do your crying if you must and decide with yourself what you will be a part of and what not - on the small as well as on the larger scale.
This film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering, please exercise caution when viewing.
If you choose to do so anyway, you will be "rewarded" with a first hand impression of what humans can do to each other when at their most extreme.
When I was at school in the early seventies, the following footage was shown to us. Prior to that, the question whether we as 13 year olds should be seeing this was intensively debated. This debate was taken at the school board, between the teachers and together with our parents, we were told.
The outcome of the debate was, that we at our most receptive age should see the film in order to let it do it's part to ensure that nothing like it would never happen again.
My family was very influenced by what this film has to say. Therefore it had maybe an even more profound influence on me than on most. Even today at my 48th year I can't help crying over it in desperation and grief.
The film is a collection of different footage taken as the Nazi concentration camps were found and liberated just after the German surrender following the second world war. The full collection takes almost an hour to watch. Watching it is most disturbing, most necessary and most interesting.
You know, this could happen to anybody. Anybody could be treated as we Europeans were during that damned war - just as any of us could be one of the people doing these atrocities, if we don't keep our minds and hearts sane and healthy.
Please - watch it, do your crying if you must and decide with yourself what you will be a part of and what not - on the small as well as on the larger scale.
This film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering, please exercise caution when viewing.