There is a new film that handles this subject from the photographer's point of view. "Lee". I watched it recently on a flight. Lee Miller was a WWII photographer who was recognized for having documented concentration camps. Kate Winslet portrays her. The movie is haunting. Well done.
It asks you to appreciate what it took to see the horrors. To photograph, collect, edit and publish this must have been beyond difficult. But it had to be done.
I am in a rage over the fact that there can be more than a handful of mentally ill devil people who would deny that this happened. This atrocity needs to be a major section of every kids education.
You are so very correct Bill. People born between 1930 and 1940 remember WW2 because we lived it. People born between 1940 and 1960 remember WW2, because those who fought in it were their parents or people like me born in 1933 who still had vivid memories of it. But kids born from 1980 on it's just another part of ancient history.
You're right about the "southern aristocracy" trying to rewrite the Civil War, oh, it wasn't about slavery, it was about economics. Right, and I have a beautiful orange bridge to sell you complete with toll booths. There was a holocaust. I saw the pictures taken by American, British, Canadian, Russian troops. They all showed the same horror just from different concentration camps.
Racism, misogyny, bigotry are alive and well because people who think they are better than us keep it alive.
It is long past time for all Americans to wake up and acknowledge that some of our forebears were hideous human beings. Should we feel responsible for their cruel, unforgivable behavior? No, but we should feel genuine remorse and disgust with it. My forebears were either Scots or Canadians. None of them or me lived in Tulsa Oklahoma. That does mean that I am not ashamed of what other pale skinned people like me, did to their brethren with slightly darker skin who had the audacity to create a region where some amongst them could live like middle class Americans.
Until we all admit to America's wrongful past deeds to anyone who wasn't white, male, landed, high middle to upper class, we will never be 'good people'.
"WWII will never get ENOUGH focus." I agree completely. Years ago I was shocked when a colleague, 10 years older than me, asked me questions about the Holocaust that indicated how little he knew about it. He knew about the concentration camps, but not about the mass shootings, the so-called medical experiments, the slave labor, the cruelty inflicted by people other than the Nazis. The more I read, the more angry I get. NEVER FORGET.
There is a new film that handles this subject from the photographer's point of view. "Lee". I watched it recently on a flight. Lee Miller was a WWII photographer who was recognized for having documented concentration camps. Kate Winslet portrays her. The movie is haunting. Well done.
Here is an excellent review:
https://natashalester.substack.com/p/two-extraordinary-women-lee-miller
It asks you to appreciate what it took to see the horrors. To photograph, collect, edit and publish this must have been beyond difficult. But it had to be done.
I am in a rage over the fact that there can be more than a handful of mentally ill devil people who would deny that this happened. This atrocity needs to be a major section of every kids education.
You are so very correct Bill. People born between 1930 and 1940 remember WW2 because we lived it. People born between 1940 and 1960 remember WW2, because those who fought in it were their parents or people like me born in 1933 who still had vivid memories of it. But kids born from 1980 on it's just another part of ancient history.
You're right about the "southern aristocracy" trying to rewrite the Civil War, oh, it wasn't about slavery, it was about economics. Right, and I have a beautiful orange bridge to sell you complete with toll booths. There was a holocaust. I saw the pictures taken by American, British, Canadian, Russian troops. They all showed the same horror just from different concentration camps.
Racism, misogyny, bigotry are alive and well because people who think they are better than us keep it alive.
It is long past time for all Americans to wake up and acknowledge that some of our forebears were hideous human beings. Should we feel responsible for their cruel, unforgivable behavior? No, but we should feel genuine remorse and disgust with it. My forebears were either Scots or Canadians. None of them or me lived in Tulsa Oklahoma. That does mean that I am not ashamed of what other pale skinned people like me, did to their brethren with slightly darker skin who had the audacity to create a region where some amongst them could live like middle class Americans.
Until we all admit to America's wrongful past deeds to anyone who wasn't white, male, landed, high middle to upper class, we will never be 'good people'.
"WWII will never get ENOUGH focus." I agree completely. Years ago I was shocked when a colleague, 10 years older than me, asked me questions about the Holocaust that indicated how little he knew about it. He knew about the concentration camps, but not about the mass shootings, the so-called medical experiments, the slave labor, the cruelty inflicted by people other than the Nazis. The more I read, the more angry I get. NEVER FORGET.
Thank you, Bill.
We have been warned...again and again and again.
We will not let it be forgotten. Thank you.
Thank you Bill for the stark warnings 👍👍‼️
Thank you Bill
for your huge heart
your love for all who suffer under tyranny
your moral clarity
and the fire of freedom
that lights your soul
We remember Auschwitz
with you today
and commit ourselves
to join you in preventing another
Thank you
for calling us
so powerfully