What do you do? Go to the city hall in Oświęcim and ask to see the records of the death camp internees of Auschwitz?
So I see.
A lot of info is available online. It’s some of the ways people like myself can get info about our own families. Records are also available at Yad Vashem. I’ve looked up my family there as well.
Twilight Zone episodes and school documentaries are the best possible info available? You really thought that?
The construction of your question is strange.
Are you suggesting that because you personally don’t know where the evidence is that it doesn’t exist?
Wait, are you suggesting that your high school documentaries and the *Twilight Zone *have all the same information as a museum at Auschwitz?
Now that you mention him…
The documentaries, I certainly do. I am not of a mind to abolish school curriculum simply because somebody sees fit to put it down. As for the Twilight Zone episode–well, I did not exactly consider that to be a bundle of laughs.
Don’t put words in my mouth. That is not what I said.
I asked you a straightforward question, one that was perfectly justified by the comments you have made in this thread.
Okay, forget it! Just forget it. :rolleyes:
Wait, what? Who said anything about abolishing school curriculum? Who said the TZ episode was a comedy?
I’m not sure anything more productive can be accomplished here, if that how my posts are being misread. I think this hijack has run its course.
I’m not sure who you think has advocated for abolishing school curriculum, but you’re talking about documentaries made - 40, 50 years ago? Designed to fit as much information into a couple of hours film time? And you figure that is every bit as good as what you might learn at a museum dedicated to the atrocities of Auschwitz, located on the very place it happened, staffed by scholars and with access to primary sources?
I may be willing to back down on that–but only to a degree. I have visited, three times, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles; it’s part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. It includes a comprehensive, linear description of the Holocaust and the circumstances leading up to it. In fact the very last room in the linear exhibit is a replica of the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Ok , so you do have information beyond the TZ and hs documentaries. Or are you saying that the museum fell short in terms of information, compared to the decades -old documentaries and television shows?
And who advocated abolishing the school curriculum?
I am not sure what sides people are taking here.
**dougie_monty- **do you have doubts as to the Holocaust??
Let me clarify something here:
First off, I am not questioning the historical nature of the Holocaust.
Second, it was a mistake on my part not to have mentioned the exhibits at the Museum of Tolerance first, considering their value as compared to the documentary films I saw in school.
Third, I have from time to time noticed a disparaging attitude on the SDMB toward anything as taught in school–this is undeniable. While I have been chided for adducing material from television on occasion, I will not back down from a point I have raised with material picked up in school–or even in my own independent reading on a topic–as a basis.
Fourth, I did not see “Death’s Head Revisited” when it aired in network prime time–November 10, 1961. I also know Serling himself wrote the episode. I saw it in reruns in the 80’s; once it even brought me to tears. (After my first visit to the Museum of Tolerance I was not tearful, but angry.)
No kidding. I have never been this confused in my entire life.
New around here, eh? :p:p:p
dougie_monty thinks the Nazis did not keep detailed records because such records were not shown on an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” And saying that the Nazis kept detailed records means you are disparaging the US school system.
See, perfectly understandable.