Tag Archives : Holocaust

While civilians caught up in the conflict were able to record footages of Nazis razing whole cities, Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun filmed the ‘Fuhrer’ relaxing at his chalet in the Alps in the middle of the Nazi invasion of Europe. Braun’s stained home movies, previously unseen images, have been treated through the efforts of archivists [...]

It was UNESCO that took the initiative after the Second World War to organize ‘the world conferences against racism.’ The first two rounds were held in Geneva, with a particular emphasis on ‘apartheid’ in South Africa, and the first conference was held in Durban in 2001. The recently held UN Conference on Racism, dubbed Durban II, was supposed [...]

Josias Kumpf, now 83, did active service during the Holocaust as an armed SS guard at three Nazi concentration camps: the Sachsenhausen Camp, slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners built launching platforms for Germany’s V-1 and V-2 rockets that were used in attacks on Britain, and Nazi forced-labor camps for Jews in Trawniki, [...]

There is yet another kind of guilt that the Holocaust produced. This is the moral guilt that those who survived the genocide eventually suffered from. Many times, this has been called ‘survivor guilt’ or the feelings of people who survived a disaster that killed others. If guilt is defined as an awareness of having done wrong or committed a crime, [...]

The issue of complicity in the crimes of the Holocaust is made even more complicated with the existence of a unit of average middle-aged Germans who became the mass murderers of tens of thousands of Jews. They helped the Holocaust succeed as they were transformed from ordinary men into active criminals. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and [...]

Richard Williamson, a Roman Catholic bishop who questioned the truth about the controversial Holocaust. The British born bishop caused outrage among the public in Argentina. Williamson who was living in Buenos Aires for five years now at St Pius X seminary was asked to leave the country within ten days. The bishop arrived at Heathrow airport and [...]

The award-winning novel ‘The Reader’ was written by Bernhard Schlink who happens to be a German law professor and judge. It is small wonder that the novel is suffused with the topic of Holocaust guilt. In fact, ‘The Reader’ sags so heavily beneath the weight of the subject of guilt. Hanna (played in the movie adaptation by Kate Winslet which [...]

The usual definition of Holocaust as “the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children, and million of others, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II” is far from complete. The list of millions of other victims include the Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, political [...]

In his first statement since the controversy arose from his Holocaust negation, Williamson said he will focus on evidence of the historical existence of gas chambers before considering a correction. “There should be historical evidence, not emotions. And if I find the evidence, then I stand corrected. But it will take time,” he said in an [...]

The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, urged the citizens of the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust that was perpetrated by the Nazi regime during World War II, through the reaffirmation of the belief in the values and standards promoted by the UN. In a corporate message on International Day in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust, [...]