Holocaust: Night will fall

On Ch4 now. Jesus. Not for the faint hearted.

 

Worth watching on plus one at 10?

 

Oh ********. I was supposed to be only contributing tonight using images etc, not words. Ah well.

 

Definitely mate. Very interesting.

 

We'll let you off in this thread given the subject.

 

Missed first 20 minutes of it so i will be downloading from on demand.

 

Watch that then before bed. Cheers.

 

Harrowing stuff. Really hard to watch

 

Some shocking footage even though we all know what went on. Listening to the survivors, put in absolute context by showing them on the footage, was very thought provoking. Some of the veterans who liberated them still break down when trying to talk about it, you can only imagine the mental scars they've carried through life after witnessing what they did.

 

Too true. Its the kind of thing you can never under and I've no idea how they have put it behind them (though they obviously don't put it behind them as such). Why did they make the locals including children walk past the dead bodies? I didn't really understand that bit

 

Watched it. No matter how many times you see footage like that it never loses its power to shock you to the core.

I will never get my head round how human beings could have done that.

 

I presume they were sending a message of 'look this is what the nazis have done'. An education of sorts. Harsh to make children have to see it though.

 

Because often the locals turned blind eye to what was going on right on their doorsteps so this was a way of making them face up to it.

I've been to Dachau, Terezin and Auschwitz. Hard to take but something I had to do. Everyone should visit at least once if they can. Makes you realise that life as we know it isn't so bad really

 

Its on our list for me and my missus to go to Auschwitz, and sooner rather than later.

 

It makes you wonder how much the locals actually knew doesn't it. Id also love to go there. Schools should go there for me. It'd show kids from a young age what prejudice results in.

 

I know what ur saying but a lot of the kids going round the Auschwitz site were treating it just like any other day off school. No respect or sense of where they were at all. Parts of it chilled me to the bone. There is an area between two of the buildings with a post in the ground for tying people to and shooting them. I stood at the post, closed my eyes and smelled something unmistakable. Cordite. I fired a rifle often enough in my RAF service to know that smell. It was there as clear as the smell could be.

 

To be honest that's the only thing that puts me off going. The idea that I'd probably be bored and not really taking in what happened because they're just old buildings really aren't they. I know they're not and there is a huge historical significance but when I got there I'd just be seeing bricks and mortor sadly

 

To be honest it would chill me i think just to see the infamous approach to the gates with the old railway line and the 'Arbeit macht frei' sign over the entrance. Seen it so many times in pictures and newsreel it would blow my mind to actually see it in person and know what happened right where i was stood.

it was just a series of old buildings when we went to the prisoner of war camp on the way to Whitby which is now a bit of a war museum but it was one of the most fascinating days out we have had.

 

Quote from The Eichmann Show the other night:

‘’For each of us who has ever felt that God has created us better than any other human being, has stood on the threshold that Eichmann once stood, and each of us that has allowed the shape of another person’s nose, or the colour of their skin, or the manner in which they worship their God to poison our feelings towards them, have known the loss of reason that led Eichmann to his match.’’

People on here should remember that. In fact I might make it my signature.

 

and birdsong is never heard where once Concentration Camps stood.