A local PBS station ran Auschwitz: Inside The Nazi State tonight. If you get the chance to see it I suggest you should, so many people have no concept of how horrible it was.
I'm always amazed when people tell me they discovered the Holocaust because of Schindler's List. Somehow, these people reached adulthood without knowing what a blood century the last one was. I watch very little television now, so I am not aware how commonplace documentaries are. Early American commercial television in the 1950s was full of WW2 film footage, and I have no recollection of learning about the Holocaust or Pearl Harbor or D-Day. It's as if they have always been part of my memory
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I don't like the word Holocaust. In Ancient Greece it referred to a ritual sacrifice. Calling the Shoah Holocaust sounds like those people were sacrificed to appease someone.
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