Anyone else watching Ken Burn's Holocaust?

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    Thanks for the reminder. My DVR is recording them. I forgot it was on. Mrs. Monkey and I were supposed to sit and watch. We enjoy watching stuff like his together.
     
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    Eh. I'm pretty burnt out on guilt trips over historical events I wasn't alive for but am expected to carry some kind of responsibility for.

    Also pretty sure I know a lot of the material, I did an IU course on the Holocaust way back when that covered a lot of the American role. If you don't know some of that history of the American indifference, ignorance, or outright hostility to the victims and refugees of the Holocaust already, I'm sure the documentary is illuminating. I don't agree with how the history is being applied to push contemporary people into complying with bad ideas and bad policy, but you should still know the history.
     

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    Eh. I'm pretty burnt out on guilt trips over historical events I wasn't alive for but am expected to carry some kind of responsibility for.

    Also pretty sure I know a lot of the material, I did an IU course on the Holocaust way back when that covered a lot of the American role. If you don't know some of that history of the American indifference, ignorance, or outright hostility to the victims and refugees of the Holocaust already, I'm sure the documentary is illuminating. I don't agree with how the history is being applied to push contemporary people into complying with bad ideas and bad policy, but you should still know the history.
    If this is anything like the rest of Ken's body of work, it wont be a guilt trip.
    I'll watch and report back.
     

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    I’ve watched or rather it was on in the background and it all was pretty much a repeat of history that I was already exposed to. I don’t know if that’s a result of how it was taught 50 years ago or my interest in it and WWII in general through TV and print as I had 5 uncles that fought in it. There was a venomous approach to Jews worldwide then as well as now.
     

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    Never again.

    In this context, I can not understand how people such as Schumer can be so anti-gun.
    He's blind to it because his staff doesn't have a "Never Again" app downloaded on their phones.
    Instead they have the "Burning Skies" and "Chaos 2 Control" apps installed.
     

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    First heard of this new program. decades ago PBS had a long series on the Holocaust but can't remember what it was called. It was very good I thought....took your breathe away. I remember a Jew that had escaped then went back to see for himself and they snuck him into Warsaw, Poland I think....he saw dead bodies on the streets, he saw 2 nazi officers walk up and the younger one shot a Jew in the head and no one cared, normal. His friend said look at those children...they were throwing a dirty rug back and fourth...see they are having fun, life goes on. The Jew said they are not having fun, they are only simulating having fun. He then went to the US and met Roosevelt and tried to explain what was really going on over there. In some shows it shows we didn't now until we got to the camps, but D.C. had known already, and was believed why Roosevelt pushed harder to get into Germany. I'll have to watch Ken Burns to see if they show and back this up.
     

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    Growing up, the neighbors on the property next door were a husband and wife who had both survived the mass killings in Poland as children.

    I "fell asleep" on the couch when they were hanging out with Mom and Dad in the dining room after dinner. There I listened to them talk with my Dad and Mom about what they went through. I remember that evening like it was last night.

    Ask me why I despise tyranny? The experiences my neighbors shared with my Mom and Dad while I was "sleeping" on that couch will be amongst the early lessons.

    Let me state this VERY CLEARLY....soft tyranny is tyranny nonetheless and leads to nothing but greater tyranny.
     

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    Eh. I'm pretty burnt out on guilt trips over historical events I wasn't alive for but am expected to carry some kind of responsibility for.
    I was a bit disappointed. It did have a good bit of guilt trip. And the last 5 minutes of the series trying to portray us Deplorables as Nazis.

    Just read a Holocaust survivor book the week before and cannot imagine the horrors these people endured.

    I cannot understand why any Jew would be anti gun after the Holocaust. I also cannot understand how they all walked to their death like sheep to slaughter. The ones who fought back were few and far between.
     

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    Eh. I'm pretty burnt out on guilt trips over historical events I wasn't alive for but am expected to carry some kind of responsibility for.

    Also pretty sure I know a lot of the material, I did an IU course on the Holocaust way back when that covered a lot of the American role. If you don't know some of that history of the American indifference, ignorance, or outright hostility to the victims and refugees of the Holocaust already, I'm sure the documentary is illuminating. I don't agree with how the history is being applied to push contemporary people into complying with bad ideas and bad policy, but you should still know the history.

    Well said.
     

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    I love ken burns documentary’. I think the national parks one, the civil war one, Hemingway one were my go to for sleeping because his voice is perfect for it. I think I had to watch the national park one about 20 times until I saw the whole thing.

    What civil war?
     

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    I love ken burns documentary’. I think the national parks one, the civil war one, Hemingway one were my go to for sleeping because his voice is perfect for it. I think I had to watch the national park one about 20 times until I saw the whole thing.
    Yes. Peter Coyote is the narrator. He's one of the best in the industry.
     

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    I made it 10 minutes into the first episode, then shut it off. I'm not going to watch a multi hour lecture about how Americans didn't do enough. My grandfather risked his life by volunteering to go fight overseas (he didn't wait to be drafted) in WWII to put an end to the evil going on over there, and he was lucky he made it home alive. Ken Burns can keep his white guilt propaganda.
     
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