Perhaps then they may be a little more educated about what they are doing.
I have read books over the years regarding the treatment of the Jews by the guards, either through experimentation by Dr. Mengele, or the outright brutal treatment by the guards.
A couple of things still stay with me, and I guess it is because it involved children.
One incident involved a guard who approached a little girl, in full view of the inmates. He rustled something in his pocket, giving her the impression that he had some candy for her. He told her to close her eyes and open her mouth. When she did, he put a pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger.
There was another guard who loved to take a knife and plunge it into the stomach of children.
In time, I developed the attitude that there should never be rest and reprieve for these monsters. None of them should be allowed to die breathing free air. I don't care if the guard has emphysema and is on oxygen. Take the oxygen away, put the bastard up against a wall and shoot him.
Sincerely, I doubt that with the state of their education today these would have any greater feelings for the unpopular victims of the Nazis than for the Christians thrown to the lions. It’s all ancient history.
Today, students are taught to believe that only half black, “former Muslim”, Jew hating, baby aborting, practitioners of Black Liberation Theology and Marxism are worthy of their worship and admiration and then only so long as they support the teacher’s union.
I watched World at War and Victory at Sea over and over on broadcast TV when I was a teen. The episode you mention was the most memorable. Years later the Holocaust mini-series came out and still later it was aired in Germany. I was serving in Germany at the time (US Army). Too few people, here and in Germany, had no idea about “Arbeit Macht Frei”, the rod iron message I, myself, saw on a gate at Dachau. We forget. We ignore. Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur… it is mankind’s shame that we so casually forget. And we make it a source of entertainment. How sad.
The NappyOne