Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 4 at sunset ends Thursday, May 5 (UPDATED)


For some reason, the film now cuts off just before the swastika is blown up.   Overture to the movie, "Judgment at Nuremberg"; 

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)  . . . "Judgment at Nuremberg is a dramatized version of the proceedings at one of these trials, in which Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is overseeing the trials of four German judges -- most notably Dr. Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and Emil Hahn (Werner Klemperer) -- accused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death in collusion with the Nazis." . . . Klemperer plays a far different role than he did as Col. Klink in Hogans Heroes.



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At Dachau, American troops were so incensed at what the Nazis did to innocent men, women and children, they turned their guns on the SS guards:

New book about Felix Sparks gives a new perspective on the liberation of Dachau and the Dachau massacre  "You can read a review of Alex Kershaw’s new book entitled The Liberator here. The liberator in the title is Lt. Col. Felix Sparks, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Division of the US Seventh Army, the first unit to arrive at the Dachau complex, which consisted of an SS garrison and a concentration camp.
It was Sparks who fired a shot into the air to stop the killing of German soldiers with their hands in the air, an event known today as the Dachau massacre.  The Dachau massacre was kept secret for 40 years, and many people today still don’t believe it.
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Even decades later the telling of this incident has provided red meat to the anti-military left in this country, such as Leonardo DiCaprio, mentioned in the account of the movie at the bottom of this post. TD


"They were stopped when Lt Col. Felix Sparks fired his pistol into the air to stop the massacre."


. . . "Waffen-SS soldiers, who had come from the battlefield, still wearing their camouflage uniforms, to surrender the Dachau concentration camp, are shown in the photo above with their hands in the air. This scene was re-enacted in the movie Shutter Island.
"The shooting of disarmed German soldiers during the liberation of Dachau was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the Seventh Army. Their report was finished on June 8, 1945 but was marked Secret. The report did not say anything about “the unintended massacre” of German soldiers, nor anything about German soldiers  being “accidentally slaughtered. . ”

Waffen-SS soldiers surrendering at Dachau


" . . .Khamenei then begins to cast aspersions on the veracity of the Holocaust, saying: "No one in European countries dares to speak about the Holocaust (Auschwitz)."
" 'While it is not clear whether the core of this matter is a reality or not, even if it is a reality, it is not clear how it happened," the supreme leader is heard saying.
"Speaking about the Holocaust and expressing doubts about it is considered to be a great sin.' " . . .

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