IMO, Gutfeld should keep his mouth shut about the history of the Holocaust that he obviously doesn’t understand and apologize for his ignorance.
Many Jews along with many Christian Poles and others who were sent to Auschwitz and other camps had skills and trades and some were highly educated, engineers, doctors, educators, for example, yet because they were not suited for the type of forced labor that benefited the Nazis in some of the camps (some camps were purely for extermination and some were more focused on forced labor, factory work for example such as was depicted in the movie Schindler’s List), were sent to the gas chambers and murdered shortly upon arrival after “the selection” along with countless women and children, infants and the elderly and infirmed.
Yes, some Jews in the camps were not immediately executed because they had some skills the Nazis found useful, yet many perished in the forced labor camps from malnutrition and the rampant diseases endemic in the concentration camps. Many only survived a few months under inhumane conditions despite any “skills” they may have had.
Some Jews were forced under threat of death to work in the crematoriums and in sorting the personal belongs taken from other Jews. Most lived with that horror for the rest of their lives, having what we would call PSDT or survivor’s guilt. Yes, the found a way to be “useful” but only in a desperate attempt to survive.
https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1683704830638915585
PSDT?
Did you not actually READ what he said, and not what other people said he said?
He was paraphrasing Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor “Jews survived by being useful.” Frankl was a doctor.
So you disagree with a Holocaust survivor about what he experienced.
Does that make you a ‘Holocaust Denier?”
“Most lived with that horror for the rest of their lives, having what we would call PSDT or survivor’s guilt”
Is that somehow related to PTSD, or DDT?