Good intentions, my a$$.
No mention of Eisenhower, who liberated Dachau and ordered everything be photographed and documented because without said documentation he feared nobody would have believed the horrors that occurred to be true?
It's a good thing the evil US is on the way out.
I too will welcome our benevolent Chinese overlords.
Uh, lib progressive UPOS? Sounds right to me. 😎👍
Politicizing the Holocaust under the guise of documentary and then politicizing it wrong.
To me, it had two big failures. One, in Germany in the mid-1930s, even though there was repression and really bad rhetoric, people still thought of it as a civilized western country. The land of poets and philosophers. In reality, nobody dreamed that they would set up murder factories and kill 15 or 20 million people on an industrial scale. Two, when the repression was very bad, and times got very hard on Jewish people in Germany, we were in the absolute depths of the great depression. Opening the door to millions of European immigrants when the nation had 1/3 of the people out of work was simply not in the cards.
Also, even though I run the risk of sounding like Kanye, people were well aware that Jewish people were fairly friendly with socialism. There were sound reasons to not let all of the Jews in Europe immigrate to America in the 1930s. Number one of which, nobody could really imagine what was about to happen. It was more unthinkable than people realize. And this is probably some lame brain attempt on the part of Ken Burns to pretend America is turning Nazi today under Trump or something like that.
It was a simplistic exercise and looking at what we know now and thinking it was obvious to the people back in that time.
Being a history buff I tried to watch the series.
Couldn’t though,the bullsh$t of Burn’s politics burns through any insight the series might have.
I quit after twenty minutes.
Lest we forget, the necessary goal of making America able and willing to confront and defeat the forces that threaten civilization requires the resolve to do it and the power to back up that resolve.
When our schools and media emphasize American failure over American achievement, they burrow at the foundations of the Republic.
Do not think that that emphasis is by any means an
accident. We are approaching the moment the communists
have been working toward for over a hundred years!!
Word.
He’s woke, ergo, he no longer has morals, judgement, and much less workable intelligence. May the flies of a thousand camels come to rest in his leftie latte.
Burns should focus on truth
He editorializes
No I haven’t seen this
I’m ambivalent
We lost a lot of men fighting that war
Why self flagellate now
There is leftism in this writer but she makes a few spot on points.
It was comical at the end when Burns brought up attacks on Synagogues and blamed white supremacists backed by Trump.
Comparing WW2 immigration policies that prevented admission of persecuted Jews with the current anti-open borders sentiment was ridiculous.
The real fascists are the leftists that rig elections and run the DOJ and the corrupt police state agencies FBI, DEA, IRS etc.
Remember when Burns got in trouble for not crediting Latinos with their contribution in WWII (or with their contribution to jazz music).
Well, at least this anti-American overrated jackass finally made the topic match the mood of his production values.
6 hours of nonstop whining, and blaming the US as usual.
IMO, his treatment of the matter could not have beaten a series done way back when. I used to watch “The World at War.”
That was an old communist smear on the US, that we didn’t do enough to save the Jews.