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channel 4- did we know about auschwitz

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
whenever i see stuff like this just makes me realise we never want to go down the road of blame and hatred

its just a feeling of disbelief it could happen, and it did, and people nowadays question its existence, when we forget its bound to happen again in one form or another

police states are never the way :(

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: channel 4- did we know about auschwitz
    Originally posted by wheresmyplacebo

    police states are never the way :(
    send urgent email to tony and george ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Re: channel 4- did we know about auschwitz
    Originally posted by morrocan roll
    send urgent email to tony and george ...

    no luck so far

    only response id get it "what human would do that"
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Re: Re: Re: channel 4- did we know about auschwitz
    Originally posted by wheresmyplacebo
    no luck so far

    only response id get it "what human would do that"
    the response is getting ever closer to the hammer at your front door!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    noone ever finds this stuff relevant to modern day life

    how depressing

    one day im gona pay a visit to it, just to see the horror of industrialised killing
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by wheresmyplacebo
    noone ever finds this stuff relevant to modern day life
    how depressing
    one day im gona pay a visit to it, just to see the horror of industrialised killing

    Why not visit the Imperial War Museum, or any British war grave. I think it's wrong to value Jewish/Gypsy lives over those of other people who died, actually in far greater numbers for just the same 'cause'.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by nckdn
    Why not visit the Imperial War Museum, or any British war grave. I think it's wrong to value Jewish/Gypsy lives over those of other people who died, actually in far greater numbers for just the same 'cause'.

    are you joking?

    ten million people died in nazi camps. ten million.

    do you know how many British soldiers died? I'll tell you anyway. 326,000.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    55 million died overall in the second world war. I think that this is what he was referring to.

    possibly.

    but i object to the sentiment.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    The concentration camp deaths are far more tragic but although badly phrased, he possibly does have a point in that a life is not worth more simply because of who it belonged to.

    no, i'm with you on that point. but the reason the camps are so tragic is because of the scale and brutality in which people died, not because they were worth more than anyone else.

    although i don't know why i'm explaining this to you, cause i'm guessing you're already thinking along these lines.

    it's a sore point with me anyway, cause of the family link.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    The concentration camp deaths are far more tragic but although badly phrased, he possibly does have a point in that a life is not worth more simply because of who it belonged to.

    I bow to you.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Why?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    All that bowing...

    :D

    edited to add: GWST beat me to it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    To be fair, not that many people earn it. I also know how to do it so as not to injure myself.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Flexing your kness rather than bending your back?

    I remember being 'taught' how to lift a box on my first day as a kitchen boy at Harrods...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Aladdin
    Flexing your kness rather than bending your back?

    indeed. or rather, not keeping them rigid.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau last year, I have to say it was a very moving experience. Its not only the sheer scale of death but the reasons behind it all - war is definitely a terrible thing but at leat in a lot of cases you can find a reason behind the war and a need to have it, like world war two - the concentration camps hit you so hard because of the way they are so methodological, like a slaughterhouse and because all those people died for no reason.

    You can read books and watch programs and stuff about it, but going there has to have been one of the most chilling experiences of my life. It does teach you to value certain things more though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by almost_innocent
    the concentration camps hit you so hard because of the way they are so methodological, like a slaughterhouse and because all those people died for no reason.


    Exactly. It wasn't just people caught in a war. It was people methodically being placed so they could face their death.

    I am still undecided upon whether or not I shall ever visit a concentration-camp.
    Just visiting the Yad Vashem museum is too much.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Don't know about WW2 but according to the BBC 50% of us haven't heard of it today.:(
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