Oh wow. Of course the answer is simple: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Funny thing is that in my history class we never spoke about the Holocaust (because the teacher supposed we would learn about it in "German" and Ethics) but traveled very unprepared to Buchenwald.
And yeah, History of the post war era here is a chaotic, confusing and always split one.
Funny thing is that in my history class we never spoke about the Holocaust (because the teacher supposed we would learn about it in "German" and Ethics) but traveled very unprepared to Buchenwald.
And yeah, History of the post war era here is a chaotic, confusing and always split one.
That was definitely one of the questions was whether you'd been to any of the camp sites. I would love to do that one day, and to see any remaining damage from the war itself, in Berlin and Dresden especially.
We learned a very strange and piecemeal Holocaust narrative what seemed like every year in school here in America. Or I did, anyway. Lots of Anne Frank and Schindler's List and no discussion whatsoever of WW1 or the Treaty of Versailles or what the countries around Germany were doing at the time or anything else that would've put what we were learning in any kind of larger context. I'm still trying to piece it together.
There's a six-hour PBS documentary called Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State that I watched very recently that I completely recommend to you or anyone else interested in this subject. It's more about the camps in general than the doctors specifically, but the Nazi they interview really...shows you what he is a few times, and it's frightening. It adds a monumental depth of understanding to see an officer in addition to survivors speaking about his experiences.
It also covers how Auschwitz was essentially a falling-down barracks when Höss arrived, and he had to scavenge and improvise and organize this place to accept prisoners within a ridiculously small amount of time. It's a perspective on what that entire situation must've been like on the ground that was new to me and very impressive. And the recreations are beautiful, with the actors speaking in German and kind of an audio-dub of spoken English instead of subtitles. Much more immersive.
We learned a very strange and piecemeal Holocaust narrative what seemed like every year in school here in America. Or I did, anyway. Lots of Anne Frank and Schindler's List and no discussion whatsoever of WW1 or the Treaty of Versailles or what the countries around Germany were doing at the time or anything else that would've put what we were learning in any kind of larger context. I'm still trying to piece it together.
There's a six-hour PBS documentary called Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State that I watched very recently that I completely recommend to you or anyone else interested in this subject. It's more about the camps in general than the doctors specifically, but the Nazi they interview really...shows you what he is a few times, and it's frightening. It adds a monumental depth of understanding to see an officer in addition to survivors speaking about his experiences.
It also covers how Auschwitz was essentially a falling-down barracks when Höss arrived, and he had to scavenge and improvise and organize this place to accept prisoners within a ridiculously small amount of time. It's a perspective on what that entire situation must've been like on the ground that was new to me and very impressive. And the recreations are beautiful, with the actors speaking in German and kind of an audio-dub of spoken English instead of subtitles. Much more immersive.