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Treblinka
oldhag
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Did any of you watch this? Here's a link if you missed it as I think it needs to be watched.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m1l9w
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m1l9w
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I read an article at the weekend about this, I will def watch with my 2 teens. Has received very little publicity though
I will never understand how anyone could be so evil.
Please dont blame all Germans . It wasnt The Germans , it was the Nazis who were evil .
Judging by some of the stuff I read on DS, even allowing for trolling, the mindset that led to places like Treblinka is alive and well.
But the story was horrific, evil, and yet counterpointed by the bravery and courage of the two men who have lived with what they saw all these years.
Unbelievably moving.
Having read Martin Gilbert's book, The Holocaust, again one of the most chilling aspects of this horror was the nazis' ability to run the trains in order to maximise the efficiency of their killing. Appalling.
Never before or since has genocide been conducted with such industrial efficiency. It's mind boggling that huge extermination camps were set up with the purpose of murdering thousands of people every day......it is so utterly cynical and evil as to be almost incomprehensible.
Yes, all the Nazis where German though.
Yes, I do know that most were .Hitler was Austrian by the way . All the BNP are British and I dont lump all British in with the condemnation of them .All the IRA are Irish , doent mean you lump all Irish in when condeming the actions of the IRA .
You said you cant fogive the Germans , I think you mean the Nzi Germans as there were many Germans who are horrified and many who had nothing do to with the Nazis .
I've visited many Concentration Camps but Treblinka is different in that it was built for the sole purpose of extermination, one of five Camps.
The site itself is much bigger than how it appeared on the documentary......there is a lot of walking involved. When I was there the weather was quite hot and it's surrounded by forest, so lots of insects around, some of which bite, others don't, but you can't tell the difference until you are actually being bit and needless to say I got badly bit within minutes of being there. It reminded me what a trifling agony to bear compared to the suffering which went on there.
It's a very heart wrenching place to visit.....but in my opinion, very necessary.
I was left to mull over what she had told me for years.....but I never forgot it.
It would have been better put had you said 'all Nazi's were German....but not all Germans were Nazi's'.