[skinndogNN]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Will_Fall

I watched this documentary last night on HBO. Part of it was made by Alfred Hitchcock, but was never released.

Beyond *graphic*. But it reminds us how evil the Nazis were. And even the German people who live near these camps. Unbelievable.

[dfwgator]

The difference is that the Soviets didn’t have the audacity to film and document their crimes like the Nazis did. So we have all of these images of what the Nazis did, but precious little visual evidence of what the Bolsheviks did.

[Guenevere]

Will it be repeated?......Was it on the History Channel?

[Cronos]

The only camps on current German soil were prisoner of war or political prisoner camps (and one concentration camp) -- but the Nazis used the lands of the erstwhile Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth to create their worst concentration camps

To me, the root causes of the evils of the Holocaust, Pojramos, the slaughter of Poles, Belarussians and Ukrainians, the Holodomor and indeed the rise of Bolshevikism were two things that happened in the 1790s:
1. the French revolution
2. the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth

This is an image of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth at its greatest extent before it was torn apart by the Germans and Russians

Now if you compare this to the largest centers of deaths in World War 1, you will find the same lands

If you compare this to the largest concentration of Jews before the 1800s, you will find that 60% to 75% of all Jews in the world lived in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth -- peacefully and prosperously

And, if you compare the blood lands of WWII -- both the millions killed as soldiers and civilians in war and the murdered Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Rusyni and Russians, you will find the same

Why so many Jews? Becuase during the middle ages, the multi-cultural lands of the commonwealth were open to all faiths without discrimination and Jews flocked there from persecution in England, Germany, etc.

But the partition brought Jews into Russia (or to be specific Muscovy) which had never had Jews before. The Jews were restricted to what was called the "Jewish Pale" which corresponded nearly exactly with the borders of the erstwhile commonwealth

At the same time, the fervent idea of nationalism created by the French revolution forced all Bretons, etc. to become "French" speak only french etc. and the English killed off the languages of Manx, Cornwall etc. and the Russians started the same and the Germans as well