| Author | Message | ||
     Buellerandy |
I had ordered a Nazi documentary a few months back on how Hitler and the SS came to power which prompted me to pick up Auschwitz. I've never had a book enrage me so much in my life. I was curious what else is out there that people would recommend? | ||
| Cityxslicker |
You could read about the purges and clensing that Stalin did. The clensing of the intelligencia, Jews, homeless, Medical dependant, pensioners, and of course common citizens, over 6 Million | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
If you want video I'd recommend "The World at War" series. | ||
| Slaughter |
Night by Elie Wiesel Briefly - a shattering book.
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| Iamarchangel |
Righteous Gentile by John Bierman Schindler's List (the book) by Thomas Keneally IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black Swing Kids (movie) White Rose (movie) | ||
| Tom_b |
Slaughter.. Excellent recomendation, but very painful to read | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Osip Mandelstam Anna Akhmatova Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nicholas Riasanovskiy has a pretty good history of it. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Be careful. If you ever decide to run for office, someone might take your interest in the holocaust to mean that you are a closet Nazi. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
or mine that I am a communist, marxist, leninist ? To best understand evil, you must confront it, study its tactics, and watch for its creaping encroachment. or you could ignore it and claim it never happened. ..... | ||
| Ourdee |
You could try this one: http://www.hulu.com/watch/149009/cover-up-norways- nazi-secret | ||
| Delta_one |
I was on the same kick after I was in a play called I Never Saw Another Butterfly check out the book (a collection of stories poems and art from children of Theresienstadt) and the play is a fictional one act set in Terezin (Theresienstadt) the city was Terezin but the Nazis called it Theresienstadt, it was a ghetto more than a concentration camp if I remember correctly but it was a bad place none the less. (yes understatement to say the least) it was a strange propaganda camp that was supposed to paint a very different picture of the Nazi control. But it was also a gateway to Auschwitz. | ||
| Britchri10 |
Just as a juxtaposition to Nazi atrocities read something on the Bengal famine of 1942-43. Not as preconceived, planned or as systematic as the exterminations by the nazi's but just as devastating if you happened to be there at the time. | ||
| Stalker |
Triumph of The Will.... its a propaganda film that Adolph helped produce. I had to watch it again after our current presidents inauguration, pretty similar. | ||
| Brumbear |
Sophie's choice is one of the hardest movies I have ever watched. i believe the holocaust or the final solution is covered in this documentary it is worth a look anyway one of the best doc. I ever saw http://stagevu.com/video/fwhfymnxuleq | ||
| Brumbear |
Also look at what the Japanese did in World War II. I am quite sure they were far worse than the Nazi's funny how little is made about it. I always wondered if it was because they were mostly Chinese victims. I also agree you should study what the Soviets did to the undesirables as well. Don't flame me guys undesirables was a broad stroke ,Gypsy's retards,gays,Jewish and anyone not considered a worthy human. | ||
| Iamarchangel |
Branding as Nazi would depend on the rest of the library besides the open question that was asked here. It's not hard to recognize. To compare Japanese and German people study John Dower's War Without Mercy and Japan in War and Peace. Both were horrible (all the combatant nations could be accused of that) but post-war, we talk of "good Germans", we do not talk of "good Japanese". No, Brumbear, little is not made of it. America looks more at Germany, the Commonwealth, and Asia, remembers Japan very well. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
I read a book back in high school that has haunted me ever since. Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version It was originally published in 1970 I've read many others since but this one had the most impact. Brad | ||
| Brumbear |
Good point Archangel good point The CW was much more involved in the pacific theatre especially China/ Burma than most of us in the states realize,IMO thanks for the reminder.I don't quite get what you mean on the Nazi thing I thought that's what the original poster was commenting on. The Nazi's were some pretty bad boys as well. | ||
| Brumbear |
AAHHH I think I get it now I reread it a couple times. I am referring to the numbers of dead due to war crimes only hear. I should have been more clear as well as the Soviets and well all involved actually. (Message edited by brumbear on October 23, 2010) | ||
| Whatever |
Elie Wiesel's Night Will probably piss you off even more, but I think it should be required for High School senior world history myself. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer | ||
| Big_red_79 |
or you get some of the people like the lady that had ran for school superintendent where i grew up, she had a firm belief that the Holocaust never happened an was ready to remove it from the school districts curriculum, and trying to make people like my grandfather look like liars with the things that he had seen and dealt with during WWII | ||
| Ourdee |
Buellerandy, If you want to read "the Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich" A History Of Nazi Germany by: William L. Shirer, I will mail you my copy. It is about 1600 pages in paperback. A very good read though. Another book that will hold your attention is: The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by It's Perpetrators and Bystanders by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen. I have it in my library somewhere but I'm not finding it right now. Here is a link to it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Old-Days-Perpetrators-B ystanders/dp/1568521332?tag=dogpile-20#_ | ||
| Buellerandy |
Thanks alot for your input everyone! Yeah, I highly doubt I'd ever be mistaken for a Nazi supporter. I'll have to wait til i'm done with work on Sunday and make a trip to the bookstore  | ||
| Jssport |
my memories fade ..... but There was a movie, about the jews who worked at Auschwitz as a member of the "sonder-kommando unit . What they did and how they reconciled it. David Arquette(courtney cox's new ex) was in it. It is called "The Grey Zone". I've included a link to it's review at Amazon, it's a very chilling tale. http://www.amazon.com/Grey-Zone-David-Arquette/product-reviews/B000087EYX/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 (Message edited by jssport on October 24, 2010) | ||
| Whatever |
Was that the movie where they had to move rock piles around all day? Damn depressing flick!  | ||
| Whatever |
Guess not. I just read the review. Maybe I will go see it on a good day. | ||
| Darkitekt |
There is a book called "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl who was a prisoner in both Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. The book describes the life of a prisoner in a concentration camp from the perspective of a Psychiatrist. Well worth reading. -Tod | ||
| Blake |
The Killing Fields |
