[Verginius Rufus]

This morning C-SPAN3 was showing a lengthy black-and-white documentary film, first shown in November 1945, about the Nazi concentration camps. Lots of gruesome footage of people who had died of starvation before the Allies arrived, also segments re-enacting how the Nazis had tortured prisoners. There were also liberated prisoners who were barely alive. Not easy to watch. This had been put together originally for use in the war crimes trials.

[ponygirl]

My freshman year in college, sociology class, we had a guest speaker one day who was a concentration camp survivor. She showed a film the likes of which I had never seen before and I can still recall images from it. She had a tattoo and spoke about her experiences. She was a child at the time of the war, but she was fluent in French and German and had blonde hair, so the Nazis used her as a translator, which is how she survived.

I seriously doubt they would allow such a guest on a college campus these days.