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Holocaust Memorial Day – 27th January

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  • Diebythesword
    Diebythesword Posts: 666
    Ormiston_Addick said:
    For anyone who wants to see a brilliant film that shows the sickening impact that the holocaust had on survivors I would thoroughly recommend 'The Devil Next Door' on Netflix, the story of how the Israelis prosecuted a Ukrainian bloke living in the US who they suspected was the infamous 'Ivan the Terrible' who committed unspeakable atrocities at Treblinka and Solibor.

    What many people don't know is that it wasn't just the Germans who did this to the Jews and the other victims of the camps, many of the camp guards were Ukrainian, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and even some Poles.

    In fact, when the first Soviet troops arrived at the first camp to be liberated, Majdanek, near Lublin, some Jewish Red Army troops who were Yiddish speaking spoke to the inmates and thought they were exaggerating what had happened at the camp, it took them only a few hours to discover the prisoners were telling the truth.
    Yes, a lot of massacres, particularly in the baltics were performed by ordinary people before the Nazis even arrived. Yes the holocaust was state slaughter at an industrial scale, but it was enabled and carried out by ordinary people too. 

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