tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post7713903935420047361..comments2024-03-28T16:47:51.948-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Nazi Hunters continuedOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-11752181108943222222010-06-09T20:06:10.348-04:002010-06-09T20:06:10.348-04:00I remember watching Sophie-s Choice many years ago...I remember watching Sophie-s Choice many years ago and being so badly affected by the realisation towards the end regarding the title of the movie that the hairs on my arms still rise at the thought. One hopes the world has learned and that such atrocities will never, ever, ever be repeated but even that scenario cannot even begin to justify the untold individual tragedies and horrors that took place. My English is not good enough for me to find a word regarding the admiration due to those that had the spine to not look the other way.Yrsa Sigurdardottirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05889410114439001207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-11651871790357082642010-06-07T18:27:39.853-04:002010-06-07T18:27:39.853-04:00"Terrorists in retirement" - what a conc..."Terrorists in retirement" - what a concept. They get to spend their final days in the warmth of South America, watching their grandchildren and great-grandchildren play in the sun. It would be cruel and unusual punishment for them to have to think of the children left behind in France, the last image of their parents being one in which the parents were herded toward cattle cars on their way to re-location in work camps in Poland.<br /><br />Why, so long after the war, was French television refusing to show the film? I realize that 60 years is as nothing in terms of the suffering of the Jews, and any group who defied the Germans, but does anyone still remember the identities of the collaborators who made the work go smoothly for the SS? I would think they would have disappeared into vastly different lives than they had before and during the Occupation so they wouldn't be recognized.<br /><br />If only as many who claimed to be in the Resistance after the war actually had been in it when they were needed. If only those who denied being collaborators actually had not been willing to sell their souls and their country. There might not have been so many stories about the children of the deported (a much better word than murdered) Jews.<br /><br />The courage and strength the parents were able to instill in their children when they were so young would make a worthwhile subject for a documentary. To live with the knowledge of what happened to their parents and survive what must have been some degree of guilt, is extraordinary. We would all learn so much.<br /><br />Bethbethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17405199782450351160noreply@blogger.com