That's the worst of the sort of thing that happened when people started applying darwinism to humans

 

True in Australia they had this integration thing where they took(abducted) Aboriginal children away from their families to bring them up 'white'----its called "the stolen generation" ---Rabbit Proof Fence is a good movie in reference to this.

I saw that movie... :wreck: it was rough, but really good.

 

The same sort of thing happened up here to first nations peoples with the residential schools. Not a very proud chapter in our nation's history. :(

^ i remember the news a while ago saying that Canada actually said sorry

about that (can't remember too well)..........

In Australia its brushed under the carpet more often than not :(

 

Hiding place (makes note ---lot of things to read)

The most horrible thing was that it was non fiction....it was all real...no actors....just real handicaped persosn who didn't know what happens to them...

Yes Julia, these films are so cruel. We had to watch at least 3 films about Nazis and Hitler in history lessons. You really got a shock, but I think it's important to see these kind of films to prevent that this can ever happen again.

 

The history class of my school made a trip to Prague and they visited a concentration camp in the Czech Republic. They were all so shocked and a lot of them really cried. It must be so difficult to see a place like that. :\

well, i've watched Life Is Beautiful and so had to cry ... it was so sad ... and at school we read 'Damals War Es Friedrich' ('It Used To Be Friedrich' in english but i don't think there's an english version of this book) in grade 6 and it was about a young (prolly 10) jewish boy and his family. they lived together with another family in the same house (the other family wasn't jewish) and the other family had a little boy as well and the two boys became friends but then the friendship breaks apart because Friedrich is jewish and the other boy's family doesn't want their son to hang out with a jew.

 

when we went to berlin three years ago, me and my family went to Buchenwald (it is a KZ) on the way home and the feeling there was horrible. just imagine the spirit of those who were killed there. people had to wait in a queue to get shot in front of the others and there was some kinda examination room for those who were ill and there was a little niche were the nazis put a gun through and shot the people who got prepared for their examination ... it makes me sad when i think of it ... it is terrible. and we also visited the crematorium. that whole time is just the darkest part in history and simply dreadful.

i was in a delegation tp poland with school. The seniours in all the schools here do that, to leanr more about our history, and to see with our own eyes. We're all jewish here, and most of our families were in the holocaust (my grandparents were...)

anyway, when we were in auchwits there is a museam that has really rooms and rooms filled with things that were taken from the prisoners that arrived there- the ones that stayed to work and the ones that were murdered... there was hair, so many shoes, pots, tora books, luggage with names on it (which was so horrible to think it belonged to an individual and see it that way)... so many things.

 

one of the rooms was also filled with artifcial limbs and crutches, because they did that to all the handicapped ppl....

oi, i really dont like to think about it, it makes me feel horrible.

 

I dont think id go back there ever, it's a very hard thing to do (-_-)