The Holocaust List found

[orphanedhawk]

  This story was aired on CBS on "60 MINUTES" ** about a long-secret German archive that houses a treasure trove of information on 17.5 million victims of the Holocaust. The archive, located in the German town of Bad Arolsen , is massive (there are 16 miles of shelving containing 50 million pages of documents)and until recently, was off-limits to the public. But after the German government agreed earlier this year to open the archives, CBS News' Scott Pelley traveled there with three Jewish survivors who were able to see their own Holocaust records. It's an incredibly moving piece, all the more poignant in the wake of the meeting of Holocaust deniers in Iran and the denial speeches in the UN.

   We're trying to get word out about the story to people who have a special interest in this subject. It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way! Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to 10 people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain. Please don't just delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this along -

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2972691n&tag=mncol;lst;9

( I just got this in my email, and thought I'd share it here)

[orphanedhawk]

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
              ~Martin Niemoeller

[rivll]

"The everyday German actually had NO idea that the camps existed. Just sad, sad, sad that it was going on right under their noses, and a lot of them knew nothing about it."
I wish you were right on that el. Enough people knew...there were reports going out, ppl begging the allies to bomb the railroad tracks to stop the death trains. The towns near the camps were filled with the smoke of burning flesh almost daily.

What is true is that a lot of people put their heads in the sand. Some were afraid, understandably. Many pretended not to know. We are all familiar with denial. It is what helps us survive in hard times. It is how we justify our existence while living in the midst of terror and savagery.

"I think people should watch the series to educate themselves on just how primal and animalistic and raw and cruel human-nature can be, if left unchecked. "
You are right about how the experience can influence the way we live now and help us to form lives of courage and integrity so that this should never be repeated.

[el_em_en_oh]

That said, hitler WAS a monster, no doubt about it. But some of the people he had WORKING FOR HIM, were even more twisted and sick than he was. Some of the things they came up with and developed, all in the name of "extermination", are both disgusting/cruel, and genius at the same time.

You know how you can't look away from a train-wreck... well the netflix series is the same way. It was disgustingly facinating.

Kinda like watching something on a mass-murderer, on tv. Part of you wants to look away, but you just can't.

[el_em_en_oh]

I watched a series that's on Netflix, called "The Holocaust". It's a 6-part series. Absolutely AWESOME. It shows how the Nazi's developed the idea of "the camps".

A lot of people think that the final iteration of the camps that the Allies found, was how it always was. Nope. The Nazi's experimented with different set-ups and methods, trial and error, different locations, etc, etc.

Don't get me wrong, my stomach was turning and I was disgusted by what I saw, but again... it's part of WORLD history that shouldn't be forgotten, and I think people should watch the series to educate themselves on just how primal and animalistic and raw and cruel human-nature can be, if left unchecked.

The everyday German actually had NO idea that the camps existed. Just sad, sad, sad that it was going on right under their noses, and a lot of them knew nothing about it.

Good series, if you have the stomach for a REAL and uncensored look into our brutal past.

[rivll]

I agree with you, ILADVOCATE and it is true about the extemination of people with disabilities. We don't hear much about that, but anyone less than what they considered perfect was subhuman.
Really cannot imagine so much hate.

[orphanedhawk]

Sorry I got caught up in pettiness.
I was enjoying our exchange.

We so often forget how crazily single focused Hitler was with his fanatical belief of an Aryan superior race. If left to him, we'd only have blond haired blue eyed white skinned people.

And you know what that would mean?
No rap, no reggae, no basketball greats !