[TV] Should we bomb Auschwitz

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

On BBC2 now.

 

[The Clamp]

On BBC2 now.

Saw it on iPlayer last night. Very good.

On a similar topic the We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast is tremendous at the moment with lots of material on the anniversary of operation Market Garden. It’s a fantastic podcast anyway.

 

[schmunk]

So, should we?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

So, should we?

It's a question of should we have bombed it whilst it was operational, killing thousands of innocent people but potentially saving thousands more

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[Is it PotG?]

On a similar vein, saw this recently.

Harrowing stuff.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Click bait title if ever I saw one.

 

[Triggaaar]

So, should we?

Waiting to hear if there are any arguments against before I vote. Will there be a referendum?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

I'm busy today.

 

[Palacefinder General]

On a similar vein, saw this recently.

Harrowing stuff.

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There’s a very good documentary on him, Oskar Gröning, featuring interviews with him, coupled with dramatisations, not sure if this is the same thing, it was on YouTube.

 

[Palacefinder General]

They recently reopened The Holocaust section at the IWM London after a summer of expanding it and revamping it, their recommended time to do that 4th floor is 1.5 hours, I was in there for over 2. Well worth a look (just ignore the foreign students filming themselves doing Nazi salutes by the 3rd Reich regalia).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Apologies, I didn't mean this thread to look like clickbait. I was keen to get back to the programme. Rudi Vrba, one of the two escapees who told the world what was going on, ended up in Vancouver, in the department where I did my PhD. An extraordinary man, so free from bitterness . . . . And yet....this from his Wikipedia entry: "Only now did I understand that this was the same man who lay quiet and motionless for three days in the hollow pile of lumber while Auschwitz was on maximum alert, only a few yards from the armed SS men and their dogs combing the area so thoroughly. If he could do that, then he certainly could also don the mask of a professor and manage everyday conversation with his colleagues in Vancouver, Canada, that paradise land that is never fully appreciated by its own citizens, a people without the slightest notion of the planet Auschwitz".

Anyway, the programme reminded me of him and I thought I'd mention it. Rudu didn't endear himself with authorities anywhere. His view was that far too many people did nothing at the time, including fellow Jews, for a range of selfish or cowardly reasons. He left Israel because it sickened him to be working with the same people who had colluded with the betrayal.

I remember him, dapper in his suit, smoking a cigarette in an elegant holder and, in the summer, the crude prison camp tattoo on his arm visible. He gave me a good piece of advice one time: "Never explain".

 

[MTSeagulls]

(just ignore the foreign students filming themselves doing Nazi salutes by the 3rd Reich regalia).

Give them the benefit of doubt, they were probably just trying to get the attention of their friends.