The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory | The Listening Post 

Now tell me how many Polish people were actually murdered in Auschwitz? Two of my family memberes were murdered there, so have some effin respect!

I used to be a far right ideologist. I didn’t hate people. I hated “them who came to threat us”. Me and many like me, economically and socially precarious people who worked for a meager black wage, considered “these people” a threat. They say “in the fog of war..” I say “in the fog of ignorance, propaganda blinds us all”. Honestly, this war in Ukraine profoundly changed everything I believe in about politics, history and society. My advice is that if you’re a victim of an idiot, instead of being outraged, invite them home. They will see where you eat, brush your teeth, sit on the toilet, sleep just like them. It will make a crack in their concrete eye-blinders. Words can be hurtful. But sometimes bad manners and insensitivity are not racism. They are just bad manners and insensitivity. Point that out.

We condemn hitler holocaust but what about Palestine holocaust-palestine genocide by zionist is hardly seen any confrontation from modern world specially us or their allies.

This camp should be moved to germany as germans built it . I don't want my country Poland associated with this barbaric camp any longer

Bottom line is.... "Judge carefully the ideology you subscribe to, there must be at the basis of any ideology something that benefits humanity, not something that destroys humanity " Nelly Ben-or ❤💯✌

What piece is the lady playing on piano at the beginning at 0:45 ?

Most people who were murdered didn't die in deathcamps or Auschwitz. Ostarbeiter (eastern workers), Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and other forced labourers who were forcibly rounded up and brought into work camps from the east. These were separate from the SS-run concentration camps, where prisoners were also forced to perform labour. There were 11,283,000 people the Nazis killed through institutional practices, such as forced "euthanasia" and forced labour. Auschwitz became a symbol as it omitted the 20 million Soviet Slavs murdered through forced labour and murdered through disease and starvation. Through concentrating on Auschwitz the untold horrors of ethno nationalism can be ignored and pigeon holed as " and others". And 3 million non Jewish Poles murdered by Nazis disappear into a memory hole.

Not only China, what about Israel and the Palestinians?

its cannock shopping centre i see there in background

It scares me sometimes how we humans are capable of producing such evil. But thank God on the other side humans still surprise me with their resilience and owe, such as these survivors. Great report, thank you The Listening Post.

Peace, freedom, prosperity and independence for Palestine and its people.

Never again 😢.

People of gaza going thru same behavior passed on.. same with african American constantly under attack.. interesting world

The Shoah does never justify the Nakba.

its data theft and cowwards who are surely ? in many number of secure mass out numbering the victim o phee

Without causing anyone any offence if i do its not my intention but this reminds me of what’s happening in Palestine, does anyone agree…???

Important to preserve history as it is we can't let our politics distort it otherwise we're doomed to repeat the same events

if Aljazeera remake or aupdate this program please also mention about Gaza Genocide

But rewriting the Past does not just occur concerning Holocaust

Dear Al Jazeera, I think that matching Polish institute of history not responding to your request for interview with Turkye refusal to acknowledge its genocide of Armenians is manipulative at least. Poland has many issues with the past, the current right wing government is using history to build nationalistic narratives - all that is very true. Pointing out all problems with the way Poland and Polish society approaches its sins is always a good thing to do. But making comparisons with a nation that actually committed genocide on another nation is not acceptable.

What happened to Namibian genocide by the Germans?

I have to add a thing about the Uyghurs. After living peacefully among Han Chinese people for decades, during the mid 90's and early 2000's the Uyghurs started aiming for independence from the PRC. They started out peaceful, but got more and more militant over time, up to the point where Uyghur terrorist groups killed hundreds of Han Chinese in attacks. This was the point where the Chinese central government had to intervene. When you look for example at the Chinese province of 'Inner Mongolia' where a majority of ethnic Mongolians live, they can speak Mongolian among eachother, and use the Mongolian script. They are not put into 'reintegration camps', and are not being monitored more then a regular Han Chinese person. This is because they are not aiming to create an independent state (or join Mongolia), and certainly not through means of violence, which some Muslim Uyghurs do and did. The lack of information in documentaries like this are creating turmoil around the world, and are portraying governments the West doesn't like as being autocratic, while this isn't always the case.

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And the genocide is happening again 😢

Isreal's far right is the worst example of this audacity!

about khazarian jews vs middle-east jews.

As relevant today as 50 years ago and 50 years on

I suspect this exist

You can openly challenge the existence of God but not the holocaust, i really wonder why.

Free Palestine.

Polaks be Polaks