While interesting, I can understand why no company would touch it with a ten foot pole - it would be difficult to do right
Maybe a one-season miniseries adaptation of *This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,* bringing Borowski’s recollections of life in the camp to the screen.
I knew someone who was Jewish, and he absolutely refused to consider trying to understand the German perspective. While I can see why that might be, you have to understand it. Understanding the origins of the Holocaust and discarding the image that everyone in Germany (and then occupied Europe) was a fanatically Jew hating, Hitler loving psychotic does not mean that the Jews somehow deserved what happened, or that you sympathize with their perpetrators, or otherwise lessen what happened.It would be an incredibly brave step...and one that would unleash outrage from the Jewish world.
Ah, yes. I remember the character who started as a decent enough guy wanting a job and then slowly but surely rose through the ranks of the SS and then the Final Solution. The truly unsettling thing is that a LOT of the people who would oversee the killing process also started that way.The only real-life comparison I can draw is "Holocaust" which was an American mini series from 1978 starring Meryl Streep and James Woods.
Mostly because teenagers and twenty-something began asking a lot of awkward and uncomfortable questions of their parents and grandparents...According to CNN's "The Seventies" the reaction to the series was that the West German parliament decided to extend the search for Nazi fugitive:
I knew someone who was Jewish, and he absolutely refused to consider trying to understand the German perspective. While I can see why that might be, you have to understand it. Understanding the origins of the Holocaust and discarding the image that everyone in Germany (and then occupied Europe) was a fanatically Jew hating, Hitler loving psychotic does not mean that the Jews somehow deserved what happened, or that you sympathize with their perpetrators, or otherwise lessen what happened.
Ah, yes. I remember the character who started as a decent enough guy wanting a job and then slowly but surely rose through the ranks of the SS and then the Final Solution. The truly unsettling thing is that a LOT of the people who would oversee the killing process also started that way.
Mostly because teenagers and twenty-something began asking a lot of awkward and uncomfortable questions of their parents and grandparents...
I think it could be understood WHY, as in the sequence of events and motivations. But as for understandable? No, I doubt it. I've always observed the irony of Holocaust denial is that that's probably the gut reaction when you first hear about the Holocaust - a modern first world nation slaughtered millions in mechanized mass death, and this was done in still living memory?! It couldn't have happened! And yet...I don't think it will ever be understandable why the Holocaust occurred.
It's a lot more complex than that, but that's also part of it. Kershaw's two volume biography on the man and Laurence Rees' recent one volume history of the Holocaust are pretty good for laymen. As for Hitler burning in hell, I don't accept the concept of the afterlife, so that's out at least for me.Yes, of course there are an incredible number of books, films and tv series on the subject but I think the only person that could answer why Hitler hated the Jews was Hitler himself and he's burning in hell right now.
The only possible view I can offer and its not the strongest by far is that Germany's defeat in 1918 was its first as a nation and that there was a lot of shock, shame and anger within the country. Yes that doesn't and shouldn't mean that the Jews were responsible because they weren't. After any defeat a nation inevitably asks "why" and the blame culture runs rampant.
I think it could be understood WHY, as in the sequence of events and motivations. But as for understandable? No, I doubt it. I've always observed the irony of Holocaust denial is that that's probably the gut reaction when you first hear about the Holocaust - a modern first world nation slaughtered millions in mechanized mass death, and this was done in still living memory?! It couldn't have happened! And yet...
It's a lot more complex than that, but that's also part of it. Kershaw's two volume biography on the man and Laurence Rees' recent one volume history of the Holocaust are pretty good for laymen. As for Hitler burning in hell, I don't accept the concept of the afterlife, so that's out at least for me.
I'm next door to Germany, so I'd like to point out that people fixating on AfD getting 11% of the vote forget that means 89% didn't vote for them. Thinking Germany is uniquely evil or itching to do it again is also unhelpful.(*Im aware that there are still some right wing groups in Germany such as AfD (Alternative for Germany)
I'm next door to Germany, so I'd like to point out that people fixating on AfD getting 11% of the vote forget that means 89% didn't vote for them. Thinking Germany is uniquely is uniquely evil or itching to do it again is also unhelpful.
I knew someone who was Jewish, and he absolutely refused to consider trying to understand the German perspective. While I can see why that might be, you have to understand it. Understanding the origins of the Holocaust and discarding the image that everyone in Germany (and then occupied Europe) was a fanatically Jew hating, Hitler loving psychotic does not mean that the Jews somehow deserved what happened, or that you sympathize with their perpetrators, or otherwise lessen what happened.
I don't recall saying "don't be mad." I said nothing of the sort. Please don't twist what I said into something I didn't.Yeah IDK why we might be a little reluctant to "consider the perspective" of the people who gleefully shoved our great-grandparents into ovens.
Germans may not have all be fanatical Jew-haters, but most of them did nothing while they steadily destroyed our civil and human rights and then started murdering us en-masse. And they knew what was going on. No fucking way they didn't.
What happened to Germany was fundamentally normal in a lot of ways. Germans aren't demons. But fuck man, I am going to be mad at them and the rest of the people who murdered the entirety of my family that wasn't already in North America, that effectively murdered the civilization I belong to, for as long as I fucking want.
Few days ago I saw on youtube a video about a new CoD2 custom map about Auschwitz. The mission could have been the last episode of the series. What about a series about Holocaust mainly through the eyes of perpetrators ?
Maybe a one-season miniseries adaptation of *This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,* bringing Borowski’s recollections of life in the camp to the screen. By focusing on the forced laborers whose job was corpse-handling, you can avoid accusations of excessively humanizing the people who actually ran the camp.