the liberation of belsen

[ermintrude35]

...who watched this last night?... did it just blow your mind clear away?.... I mean I knew all about the history of the Holocaust, have seen many dramas and documentaries in the past, but this docu-drama last night was painfull viewing, a mix of drama with real footage and still photos...it truley affected me in a big way......

[ecoman]

Forgot all about this, is it repeated at all this week?

[Doc_Spock]

It was very good, particularly the end when it said what the people were doing now.


Exceptionally well done, harrowing but compulsive.

[LeMarchand]

Hopefully going to get time to watch tonight.

Forgot all about this, is it repeated at all this week?

Probably on 4OD (though I wasn't keen on the software they provided and uninstalled it) or if you are with Virgin, on "catch up". I'd check, but not home until much later.

[Scylax]

Yes, a well made drama-docu film with no hint of
exaggeration.
Belsen-Bergen was a massive shock when news and pictures reached Britain. We thought Belsen was unique,
but then dozens of such camps were discovered
throughout Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe.
Buchenwald, Ravensbruck, Dachau, Natzweiler,
Schandelah, Sachsenhausen, Flossenburg,
Neuengamme, Kaunas, Riga, Stutthof, to name only
a few.
Over the years, I have visited many, many of these,
but Mauthausen, near Linz, in Austria, truly horrified
me. It was, and still is, unbelievable.
I shall continue to visit the sites, but still have about
950 concentration camps to go.
Forgive and forget ? Never, ever.

[ermintrude35]

....close to where I live we have a Polish Old People's Home, it was an RAF bombing school during the war, afterwards Polish people who could not return to their country started to arrive., Holocaust survivors amongst them, as I remember asking my mum on the bus during the 70s why an old lady had numbers on her arm... there are only a handfull of the original residents still there, some of them must have been children at the camps......

Sylax... you are right we must never ever forget...films like these should be shown at school

[bex401]

I recorded it,& was glad I did,as I had to switch it off half way through & go off & do something else,then came back & watched the rest later.As these programmes do,it all got a bit too much for me,but I believe we should all watch & like Scylax said,never,ever forget.Very harrowing & extremely upsetting.