On the 65th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Buchenwald Camp
Today, April 11,is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. This clip is a portion of Edward R. Murrow's broadcast from Buchenwald a few day later on April 16, 1945 The photographs are mainly from Buchenwald, although there are some contemporary and modern photographs of Auschwitz as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SCSouI8WE
An additional 11 minutes from that Edward R. Murrow broadcast. Audio is good. There are some blank screen seconds juxtaposed with stills.
Those camps were the result of "National Socialism" which is absolutely not socialism. Fascism and Socialism ARE opposite ideologies. Something wrong in our classrooms and with our cable pundits when our citizens don't know the difference. Even the funny SNL spoof of the Palin Newwork last night made the mistake of reinforcing the mistake with that art lesson, putting a moustache on a cloud.
How and why they are opposites is a little complicated, but not *that* complicated. Easy to research on the web, but stay away from Beck and that idiotic blackboard schtick of his. Funny maybe to some, but he's playing with fire.
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There are hours of film made by the army which I first saw in 1985. Frontline used them here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view/
As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.
FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London's Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it,
“Memory of the Camps." · 
And this from the BBC: Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen
Horrific scenes greeted British troops as they entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. They were accompanied by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby who recorded his first impressions for radio.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4445811.stm
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When I see pictures of Tea Parties, I can't help remember "Never Forget. Never again."
An additional 11 minutes from that Edward R. Murrow broadcast. Audio is good. There are some blank screen seconds juxtaposed with stills.
Those camps were the result of "National Socialism" which is absolutely not socialism. Fascism and Socialism ARE opposite ideologies. Something wrong in our classrooms and with our cable pundits when our citizens don't know the difference. Even the funny SNL spoof of the Palin Newwork last night made the mistake of reinforcing the mistake with that art lesson, putting a moustache on a cloud.
How and why they are opposites is a little complicated, but not *that* complicated. Easy to research on the web, but stay away from Beck and that idiotic blackboard schtick of his. Funny maybe to some, but he's playing with fire.
· 
There are hours of film made by the army which I first saw in 1985. Frontline used them here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view/
As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished.
FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London's Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it,
“Memory of the Camps." · 
And this from the BBC: Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen
Horrific scenes greeted British troops as they entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. They were accompanied by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby who recorded his first impressions for radio.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/4445811.stm
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When I see pictures of Tea Parties, I can't help remember "Never Forget. Never again."
posted by Mario | 10:14 PM
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