Developed and written by Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann, Professor in modern
European history at Birkbeck (University of London) and author of KL: A
History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (2015)
Now make no error, opening and examining this link to the Holocaust is something you will need to arm yourself mentally, for it will tear at the very core of ones soul.
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Now make no error, opening and examining this link to the Holocaust is something you will need to arm yourself mentally, for it will tear at the very core of ones soul.
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I don't think I can look right now. I'm of an age where graphic photos from the camps were shown to us in history class (I was 13) and those images have forever been seared into my brain. I don't think they teach kids about that anymore... and they should.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I'll get up the courage for a peek later. Maybe.
I think that the way they go about it today it too much like a process, and so without empathy and emotion. And in that vein, I truly don't think Anne Frank's writings should be part of a teaching environment. In fact I think it should be banned from all kids below the age of 17. And for no other reason that to utterly insure it's read under blankets with a torch.
DeleteIf you ever have the opportunity to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., I highly recommend it. Will "tear at the core of your soul," but very important.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is very important indeed.
DeleteInteresting link. We did a lot of study on it in school. I want to say I read Anne Frank in maybe 5th or 6th grade, just slightly younger than she when she started her diary. The pictures and documentation of it are heart wrenching and to think there are people out there who deny it even happening is mind blowing.
ReplyDeleteDid you ever read the "The Book Thief"? I can't remember if you had. That was a brilliant book on the subject that looked at the horrors from a different perspective - those who didn't agree with the persecution but didn't know how to stop it.
I had a quick look, but it's not something I want in my head as I nod off to sleep. What a resource though for those who are studying.
6th ?, at 12 ?. To be honest I do think that really is a bit young. But 14, I think would be about right. Still I suppose 12 is at the lower end, as you can have sparky little 12 year old's and a titch delayed 17 year old's.
DeleteI do now think my mother made a big mistake sending me to school so early, and skipping me up a year too. Initially it didn't matter but age will out at some point. And I do wonder if I being driven to hitting points early was the best thing.
I have another database on the payments to slave owners when GB banned it, and that's a bit of an eyeopener too.
I had a quick look. I recently read "The Pope and Mussolini" which was enlightening about that time period. I plan on reviewing the book but need to find the time for writing.
ReplyDeleteIt may seem an odd statement but reading the files in the State Dept would've been equally instructive to trawling the Vatican Archive and the royal and parliamentary archive in Rome. Nobody quite knew what the hell was going on on the peninsula from about 1850 onward. Trying to fathom the connections and splits of that place is close to impossible. But one of the very few was the hatred of Republicans.
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