rjw63 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Just came across this raft of shots from the Nazi death camps, and when the Yanks discovered some of them. Very grisly, don't look if easily upset http://spaceghetto.s...-didnt-happen-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Wow, very disturbing.. Horrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Absolutely terrible. I got less than half way through them and I couldn't stand to look at any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2012 Anybody who thinks their life is shit because they're having a bad day should have a look. Inevitably, some **** trolls in the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Sobering. Intrigue getting the best of me when I really, really wish it hadn't. Obviously a lot more graphic ones, but this one really stuck with me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Haven't looked at them as I'm too squeamish. A book I read about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich involved a family being traced who had helped the assassins. When the Nazis arrived the mother committed suicide by cyanide pill. They then decided to interrogate her son (who was around 10) with her head in a jar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted October 12, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted October 12, 2012 Went through some of them but they're quite hard to look at. It's just crazy and surreal, I can't believe it all happened not so long ago really. Just can't imagine anything like it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted October 12, 2012 Horrible stuff. A great example of why you should never forget your history. Otherwise you're at risk of repeating it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 Just can't imagine anything like it now. Saddam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Just can't imagine anything like it now. maybe not in terms of people in camps and systematic gassings etc but Rwanda was only 1994 and an estimated 800,000 deaths in approx 100 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Horrible. It's the smaller groups/individuals that get you, the mass burials or countless bodies strewn across fields are just beyond understanding. If we ever get to see first-hand evidence of what is going on in towns around Syria, they won't look too far of this. Awful that humans are capable of murder on this scale, but we are and it is a very troubling thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 horrific, one of the worst things i ever watched was on the history channel about kristallnacht and the germans filmed jewish shop keepers being pulled out the shops and thrown to a baying mob who each took it in turns to abuse him, things like this need to be taught in history lessons along with the Rwandan/Serbian genocides. must never forget these people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Truly Horrifying. I think sometimes people (myself included) become quite detached from reality through time and also satirisation of topics such as this. Seeing those pics was a bit of a nasty reminder of what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 12, 2012 Moderator Share Posted October 12, 2012 It did remind me of a Frankie Boyle joke though. "So, I saw Saddam being executed. It made me think ... is there nothing on the internet I won't masturbate to?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Went through some of them but they're quite hard to look at. It's just crazy and surreal, I can't believe it all happened not so long ago really. Just can't imagine anything like it now. Iraq? Iran? US presidential candidates boasting about how their sanctions are destroying Iran (read "killing people")? These things lack the physical intimacy of uniformed thugs dragging people from their homes and herding them on to trains to be butchered. So much more clinical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It might be happening in Syria right now as far as we know. Dangerous lurches to the right always worry me, the Nazi movement started with something as 'harmless' as the EDL are over here. Once one section of society starts to blame another for everything that is going wrong then you are at the start of a very slippery slope. WW2 was this taken to its furthest extreme, but we should never forget the things which caused it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It might be happening in Syria right now as far as we know. Dangerous lurches to the right always worry me, the Nazi movement started with something as 'harmless' as the EDL are over here. Once one section of society starts to blame another for everything that is going wrong then you are at the start of a very slippery slope. WW2 was this taken to its furthest extreme, but we should never forget the things which caused it. Yes. Greece is sliding in that direction, with nazi thugs roaming the streets looking for immigrants to beat up, as though the state of the country is their fault. And over here we have the Islamophobes spouting their vile ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Yes. Greece is sliding in that direction, with nazi thugs roaming the streets looking for immigrants to beat up, as though the state of the country is their fault. And over here we have the Islamophobes spouting their vile ideas. You mean nationalistic racists right ? There is nothing wrong with hating/fearing Islam or any other of the bullshit religions that people allign themselves to . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatAboutTheFinish Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Shocking pics! Although just for the sake of historical accuracy the Yanks didn't discover or liberate any of the death camps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ads Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 They're harrowing. The Holocauat memorial in Washington has display chock full of thousands of shoes. There is nothing in history comparable to the Holocaust. There have been pogroms and genocide but nothing as unique as industrialised, mechancial slaughter on a monumental scale. Anybody who tries to make comparisons is a bloody fool and should pick up a Norbert Elias "Germans" for a sociologists view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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