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Re: Any of the Holocaust movies are tough for me to watch..

October 15, 2020 08:36AM
A close (diving) friend of mine lived in Berlin during the war as a young child. He recalled having to run downstairs -7 floors-to the basement when the allied bombers came. He recalls to this day all the explosions and shaking of buildings. He eventually came to the US as a scientific glass blower. He and I and our wives saw the movie when it came out. He walked out half way through the movie. Said he "couldn't take it any more".

As far as whether the German people knew what was happening to all the Jews, the movie "Judgment at Nuremberg" addresses that. One of the most powerful movies on the subject of the actual trials of the judges and principals behind the Holocaust. Spencer Tracy plays of the American jurists and Burt Lancaster plays one of the defendants Dr. Ernst Janning. The closing argument by Maxmillian Schell who defended the Germans is quite something -at least from a lawyers point of view.

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Ramgator205October 14, 2020 04:26PM

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Ramgator193October 14, 2020 04:23PM

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Ramgator188October 14, 2020 04:29PM

  Do not misunderstand...

JamesJM171October 14, 2020 04:46PM

  Your right

waterfield191October 14, 2020 06:23PM

  Re: Your right

RAMbler180October 15, 2020 12:09PM

  Re: Your right

waterfield183October 15, 2020 01:02PM

  Spielberg knows how to make an impact.

Ramgator178October 15, 2020 01:53PM

  Same here

SeattleRam185October 14, 2020 05:16PM

  Any of the Holocaust movies are tough for me to watch..

sstrams206October 15, 2020 04:53AM

  Re: Any of the Holocaust movies are tough for me to watch..

waterfield192October 15, 2020 08:36AM

  I've gotta do a zoom meeting for work..

sstrams203October 15, 2020 08:40AM

  My only problem with the movie....

Ramgator203October 15, 2020 11:38AM

  I have always understood there was a difference between the Reg German military and the SS.

Ramgator187October 15, 2020 11:27AM

  Maybe not the best reference but of all things...STAR TREK dared to touch the subject.

Ramgator174October 15, 2020 11:33AM

  My first introduction to the Holocaust was the 1977 or 78 Mini Series, "Holocaust".

Ramgator291October 15, 2020 11:44AM