[dfwgator]

Did you see the gas chamber scene? God that was horrifying.

Yes I watched it once, and it made me physically ill. The Wouk novel was also very graphic in describing that scene, and Dan Curtis, the producer, insisted to ABC that he was to have carte blanche in the filming, and they could not edit anything without his permission. For a Made-For-TV series, its' depiction of the Holocaust is unmatched.

[jmacusa]

Some thirty years ago I worked with a young guy who at that time had been in the Army in the late’70s and spent a year stationed in West Germany. As part of his deployment there he and some of his friends were taken to see Dachau Concentration Camp. He told me that even after over thirty years years you could still smell the stench of burnt flesh. That made a deep impression on him he said. He also said the thing that shook him the most was seeing ‘’fingernail scratch marks on the walls''. To me the sheer and utter terrifying panic of people trying to literally tear their way through a concrete wall is beyond nightmarish. God help the moron who ever says within ear shot of me that the Holocaust didn't happen. I'll be arrested.