I read up on it properly a few months ago and when I started to gwt my head around the scale of it for the first time I genuinely felt physically sick.

comment by Robbing Hoody - tell me I can't and I'll show you I can (U6374)
posted 2 minutes ago
I read up on it properly a few months ago and when I started to gwt my head around the scale of it for the first time I genuinely felt physically sick.
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I know, the sheer amount of people that suffered is seriously mind boggling.

Will definitely check it out ebdo.
Been to places such as shindlers museum, Auschwitz, anne frank museum and their hold over europe and the things they done....sickening as robbing says.

I know the Allies considered bombing Auschwitz, but they never went through with the plan. Realistically there wasn't a lot they could have done as bombing it would have meant the deaths of thousands of inmates,

I also think that very few people believed the atrocities that were going on there at the time.

I haven't actually been to Auschwitz, but I have been to Dachau near Munich and it was an incredible sombre experience.

Many of the tour party were in tears especially visiting the gas chambers.

It's awful what humans are capable of doing to each other.

comment by Edbo (U17933)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - tell me I can't and I'll show you I can (U6374)
posted 2 minutes ago
I read up on it properly a few months ago and when I started to gwt my head around the scale of it for the first time I genuinely felt physically sick.
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I know, the sheer amount of people that suffered is seriously mind boggling.
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The bit that really got me was the way they built up to it from the mid-30's to the final solution. Then I read about the meeting where industrial scale genocide was effectively signed off.

Absolutely fvcking mental.

History does keep repeating itself despite how barbaric Hitler was.

Have you ever been to Auschwitz? Went a few years ago and will never forget the experience. At times you actually forget the atrocities that happened there. It is only when you walk into certain rooms that it brings it home to you. One of the first impressions I got when I was at the entrance was how much it resembled a holiday camp (which is obviously the impression the Germans wanted to give of course).
Regarding the bombing of the site. Unfortunately I don't think there was a lot the allies could have done except promise justice afterwards and to win the war as quickly as possible

i watched the boy in striped pjs and then the windermere boys on bbc the other week, not heard of this, ill have to check it out.

obviously theres schindlers list but a lot of people probably havent seen the pianist.

i remember going on a trip in RE at school and there was some jewish survivors etc talking about it to a room of school children and i was 13/14 facking messing about during it with a mate flirting with some girls from some other school there for the same thing. Still feel bad for that today, when i read or watch things about it.

This brought me onto how Hitler loved his speed and used to make people sit up until the small hours while he chatted sh!t.

What really grinds my gears is those moronic tourists who post jokey selfies at places like Auschwitz

i cried watching those things on bbc too, yeah in the boy in striped pj the kid see's his dad watching the video promoting it as a holiday camp and then thinks his dads a nice guy again.

It’s estimated 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust, a truly shocking number.

Something that gets overlooked is they murdered another 5 million people. See below.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6555604?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD8KOsbX8RRI60IuhNiOqR9XM9M1SFnUMb2TGwQD15YW5sBBJ7VYiosSDl1MPEmatdPQRcxBdOKMFccISFOu9wQXLsnaamms9nJHbNdvNS4sTKkNSsio43SLkEjXFr51fjVwNPsf39ahJD2lEWKTwz39lvtWuZ21ErERUFgLLOC6

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 2 minutes ago
What really grinds my gears is those moronic tourists who post jokey selfies at places like Auschwitz
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I've been there and shamefully, this is what happens.

Probably even worse now with our instagram culture.

People can't just peacefully think about what happened without facking sharing it, these days.

comment by Robbing Hoody - tell me I can't and I'll show you I can (U6374)
posted 49 seconds ago
This brought me onto how Hitler loved his speed and used to make people sit up until the small hours while he chatted sh!t.
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Plus another fact is you find hitlers signature for any atrocities or the final solution

comment by The Joker (U22336)
posted 2 minutes ago
It’s estimated 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust, a truly shocking number.

Something that gets overlooked is they murdered another 5 million people. See below.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_6555604?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD8KOsbX8RRI60IuhNiOqR9XM9M1SFnUMb2TGwQD15YW5sBBJ7VYiosSDl1MPEmatdPQRcxBdOKMFccISFOu9wQXLsnaamms9nJHbNdvNS4sTKkNSsio43SLkEjXFr51fjVwNPsf39ahJD2lEWKTwz39lvtWuZ21ErERUFgLLOC6
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The Armenian Genocide is another even that gets overlooked, as well as the butchery of Chinese at the hands of the Japanese.

But I won't derail the article.

Plus Stalin killed more of his own people than Germans 👍 staved them to death

Churchill killed millions of Indians and no-one gives a fvck. They celebrate him in fact.

Human beings in general are absolute scuuum and a disgrace to this planet.

If you’re ever in Berlin, the Topography of Terror museum is definitely worth visiting. Chilling what mankind is capable of doing to each other.

I’m obsessed with it and anything relating to the holocaust. I usually watch most of the documentaries and the BBC one you mentioned is excellent: Schindler’s list is one of the greatest films ever made. I might of not been around myself if Hitler truly set out to achieve his whole plan. I’m half Jewish and my mums side of the family we’re Jews living in Poland before the atrocities and they moved to Britain. My family would of been slaughtered no doubt and I certainly wouldn’t of been around today. My grandad used to tell me loads of stories about Hitler etc, fascinating. He was a lot younger then though.

It's always a race to the bottom when comparing leaders who oversaw the killing of innocent people.

I think we can all agree that the act of killing people simply because of their nationality, race, religion is abhorrent and has no place in a civilised society.

If we all agree with that then there's not really anything to debate imo.

Something I don't know too much about is what was actually going on in the minds of German citizens. Did they have any idea this was going on?

Did the allies and citizens of the allied countries have any idea?

As I understand it (please do correct me if I'm wrong) the scale of all of this was really only uncovered after we won the war.

comment by Lexington 125.2 (U8879)
posted 49 seconds ago
If you’re ever in Berlin, the Topography of Terror museum is definitely worth visiting. Chilling what mankind is capable of doing to each other.
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This is on a very different level of course, but have you seen the Milgram experiment?

Fascinating and scary in equal measure.

Take Mahomes, Country Roads (U3979)

I think the vast majority would claim not to have known, but in truth we'll probably never know.

There seems to have been a fair degree of hate whipped up and it's scary how the public bought into that.