I'm watching a Netflix series title Auschwitz, The Nazis & The Final Solution [View all]

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So far I’ve watched 3 and a half episodes. It is the most in depth coverage I’ve seen of the Holocaust and specifically about about the death camps and how they were developed chronologically through the years into the killing factories the allies found at the end of the war.

As a historical series it’s really outstanding in showing what and how it all developed from soldiers shooting the Jews in entire towns on the edges of a pit to the German determination to find an efficient way to murder all the Jews in Europe. There is a lot of real footage used, mixed with recreations with actors to interviews with survivors and Germans soldiers who worked in the camps who are alive today, living normal lives.

Episode 3 is particularly difficult because it deals with how the children were were treated from even before the camps were built, specifically as death camps. Of course, the story of Dr Mengele is included whose story is told by survivors. At this point I had to take a break and I decided to come to DU to post about it.

I’ve seen a lot of history and footage about the Holocaust because I’ve always known that yes, it can happen here. But this is the first time I’ve seen it with the knowledge that there are alarming signs that it’s beginning to happen here. The early Nazi history was also seemingly innocuous and started in ways that are similar to what we see here today. I wouldn’t be quite so worried now except for the children in detention camps on the border who were forcibly taken from their parents. Who are still taken from their parents now, in the present and our government ignores our Court’s orders to reunite the families.

I recommend for everyone who can to watch this series. For those of us who have studied and learned about the Holocaust it will turn out to be a thorough historical series tying our scattered knowledge together into greater understanding. It will also have an impact because of what is happening now. We can no longer be complacent that it won’t happen here. It serves as an educational warning and how to see the emerging patterns in our own country. This monstrous underbelly is beginning to cast an ugly shadow in our country now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz:_The_Nazis_and_'The_Final_Solution'