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The Holocaust according to Hitchcock
Yaniv Halily
Published: 09.01.14, 18:40
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1. Holocaust is an embaressement
k ,   US   (01.09.14)
I really wish there were not all of these movies, including those made by Jewish directors (Speilberg etc.) Holocaust is an embarrassment and I wish Jews would stop looking for sympathy by shoving it down everyone's faces, if anyone really cared about the Holocaust they would be an unapologetic supporter for Israel, and they would allow the Jews to kill anyone who was a threat to Israel, that is the real way to honor those who died in the 2nd World War
2. "Lost" Hitchcock Holocaust film? Hardly.
rachel ,   Tel Aviv Israel   (01.09.14)
We viewed these films in college during our graduate seminar on the Holocaust in 1993. We surmised that his first-hand views to the horrors of the Holocaust led him to become such a master of the genre.
3. Inconsistent attitude by those who pity Holocaust Jews
Tracy   (01.09.14)
It's easy to mouth all the right words decades after the fact. And you'll be hearing a lot of that with the screening of this film. HOWEVER, many of those same people who condemn the Holocaust, and even participate in memorials, have no scruples in criticizing the surviving Jewish generations for trying to protect their ancient country of Israel. They did not want Jews in Europe, and they don't want them in Israel. They killed millions of Jews, and yet, they have no pangs of conscience as they demand that Israelis be squeezed into a territory barely 9 miles wide, surrounded by enemies armed with the latest weapons, courtesy of those same countries that build memorials to the Holocaust. Just as a reminder, it was the UK and Germany that supplied Syria with the ingredients for chemical weapons. And it is mostly the United States that has been arming Egypt and other Arab countries for many decades. Words are cheap. Judge people and countries by their acts.
4. Most camp survivors filmed were non-Jewish forced laborers
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (01.09.14)
5. Something wrong with this picture...
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (01.09.14)
...when the British anti-semites want to air a documentary that could possibly arouse sympathy for tje Jews. It is the other way around usually. Ashton and the othe EU bozos will likely have a cardiac.
6. #1 Masochist...
Hammer   (01.09.14)
hate jews, but reading jewish newspapers, watching "jewish" movies and preaching jews in TB
7. #4 Most of the Jews didn't survive Steve
Eaglebeak ,   Left Coast, USA   (01.09.14)
the Germans didn't want them to work so much as they wanted them to die. If even 1 Jew were filmed in a camp it's too many.
8. "Memory of the Camps" can be seen online at PBS Frontline
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (01.09.14)
9. General Eisenhower
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (01.10.14)
American General Dwight David Eisenhower was determined to film the camps as they were liberated so no one could ever deny what took place. Local civilians were also forced to walk through the camps to see for themselves what the camps were like on the inside. Eisenhower's expressed view was that there are some people so evil that they would try to deny the Holocaust if we did not record what the Allied soldiers saw. In spite of these efforts, more than 80% of the SS in Auschwitz were never prosecuted !! [Laurence Rees, Auschwitz, BBC 2005]
10. #1 we are told only half the story . We should hear it all
ky   (01.10.14)
There is a lot of confusion and unnecessary shame about the holocaust such as expressed by the poster #1 K. We see Jews portrayed as victims of the Nazis in the camps. What we are not told are the many incidences when Jews refused to be taken away by the Gestapo. I had relatives in Brussels . The father was a member of a socialist group he was badly wounded in a gun battle when they came round and was then sent to Auschwitz where he died.along with his family There are many similar stories of heroism that should be told with pride that show Jews were not just passive victims. Perhaps then poster 1 would not feel so ashamed.
11. Not a pretext
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (01.12.14)
All that has been said about the Holocaust is, painfully, true, perhaps even understated. It remains an eternal, indelible dark stain on the human historical record. Nevertheless, even with all of its horrors, it is not a valid pretext for the Zionist usurpation of the Holy Land.
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