Yesterday I
watched a DVD movie officially made by our armed forces and that it’s based on
true recording made by soldiers with cameras officially issued for the purpose
to have a precise memory of what was seen at the several concentration camps
around Germany.
Since my
foreign language class when I was attending high school was German, one year we
went to the near town of Munich during Easter break and once there we went to
visit the concentration camp named Dachau, my main memory of that place is the
writing on the walls made by the Jews about to be murdered in many different
ways and the ovens where the bodies were turned into ashes to fill holes in the
ground.
This
documentary is therefore shockingly interesting, not only because it shows in a
very uncensored and transparent way the conditions that the Jews had to live
in, but very much also because our military higher grades made the inhabitants
of nearby towns go to look at these camps and you can see these people all
happy and dressed up like they were going to see some performance in a theater,
to then – as they were walking out of the camp – they are both crying with a handkerchief
on the mouth (for
the stench of death).
This
documentary not only made me remember my school trip at the age of 16 but of
one business trip I took few years into my very first job to Hanover where a
mechanical parts for agricultural tractors were being displayed.
Since every
hotel had been fully booked since weeks before the fair we ended up renting a
room in a private home where I saw on top of a dresser the picture of a man
wearing a SS uniform, since my dad and I were talking about it the woman who
owned the house told us that the man in the picture used to be her husband and
immediately added that he was an airplane pilot, which made me ask (in my poor German) why he was wearing the uniform of
the SS, she replied that he was in that group only in the last few months
before the allied forces took over the country.
I want to
agree with this movie maker in saying that all future generations must know
what man can do with a crazy leadership.
- http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/german-soldiers-forced-watch-footage-concentration-camps-1945/
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067988/Let-s-Nazi-dogs-Enraged-horrors-Dachau-concentration-camp-arriving-liberate-WWII-prisoners-American-soldiers-executed-50-Germans-cold-blood-reveals-new-book.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp
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