Since my last post I have watched Parts 3-5 of the important BBC series The Nazis. A Warning from History. I have been taken from the early years of the Nazi regime through the development of the killing systems at the death camps. Throughout, the treatment has been thoughtful and quite complete in this format.
Notable is the feeling in the interviewer's questioning of former Nazis. The insistence of the questioner as he probes a former Lithuanian soldier who shot Jews is most appropriate.
As I have said before, we dare not let the horror of the Nazi killing spectacle dim. Documentaries such as this help us remember some of the techniques used by those brutish German fascists of the 1930s and '40s, and possibly avoid a repeat in our time.
Soon I will have more to say about this landmark documentary series.
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