Aaron Jastrow declines Eichmanns offer to be an Elder in Theresienstadt.

[breeeegs]

"I will leap into my grave laughing because the knowledge that I have five million people on my conscience will be for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction" Adolf Eichmann

[breeeegs]

"I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, to the extermination of the Jewish people. This is something that is easily said: "The Jewish people will be exterminated," says every Party member, "this is very obvious, it is in our program -- elimination of the Jews, extermination, will do." And then they turn up, the brave 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. It is of course obvious that the others are pigs, but this particular one is a splendid Jew." Himmler, 10/04/1943

[breeeegs]

"Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished." October 4, 1943, Posen speech

[breeeegs]

Talk about a race of supermen, it takes so much courage to attack the elderly, infirm, women, and children. This may be a movie but it is an accurate representation of the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Nazis. As Himmler said, (cont.)

[junkercq]

We as an intelligent species and the most dominating one on this planet have still not learned that we may be of different color and religions but are still one species. AND that will be our downfall. After all these years, Hitler's last defiant scream to the world still lives. As long as one white Anglo-Saxon Aryan lives...the ideals of National Socialism will live on. He has proven to be right.

[irish89055]

evil incarnate....

[themysteriouscrumpet]

Of course, just for saying this sort of thing before, they have automatically and incorrectly assumed that I was Jewish, as if the concept of anybody at all outside the focus of their bile challenging them is completely alien to their minds. They talk endlessly about the inhumanity of their enemies, and yet repeatedly emphasize that human emotions such as compassion must be expunged from the minds of the drones they seek to recruit.

[themysteriouscrumpet]

And if their grieviance is the behaviour of a minority of bankers who happen to be Jewish, who have done things no differently than the majority of gentile bankers who have received considerably less criticism, then wouldn't all these atrocities that only a lunatic could deny after the Germans documented them so obsessively seem like rather disproportionate retribution?

[themysteriouscrumpet]

They call for destruction constantly and then become grossly offended when people suggest they actually committed atrocities, when they had their "racial enemies" all-rounded up, unarmed, starving to death in walled enclosures, as they deliberately shipped them east? And of course, the mere fact of another group's existence means that the "Aryan race" is threatened. How do you expect them to destroy when you outnumber them ten to one?

[americanhellcatf6]

@themysteriouscrumpet I agree with you. After Germany's defeat in World War I and when Hitler began making his journey to power he and the Nazi party needed a scapegoat to blame the nation's economic woes on and the Jews fit the bill. After all how powerful would a dictator's image be without innocent victims to prey on?

[themysteriouscrumpet]

@americanhellcatf6 It's about time somebody stood up to nazism on youtube. They think they can say things here that they couldn't get away with if they were actually talking to someone's face, and it is vital that we show them we are not going to roll over and let in the dictatorship they so sorely wish to-recreate. The sooner they are debunked as blatant liars and peddlers of toxic hatred, the sooner we will stop them recruiting other people who can't think for themselves.

[americanhellcatf6]

@themysteriouscrumpet I find it very disgusting how some people glorify Hitler and Nazism.History has shown the end result was nothing but death and destruction not only for Germany but for most of Europe as well. Hitler's Third Reich was brutal, savage and full of fanaticism. The pledge "Today Germany! Tomorrrow the World!" was often heard day by day and year after year. It was a terrible cost in human life to finally defeat him.

[themysteriouscrumpet]

@americanhellcatf6 I sometimes wonder if people's memories permit them to retain the knowledge of that horrible legacy, and whether or not they might let such a monstrous regime walk all over them all over again, regardless of how many times people mindlessly chant the words "never again". We are living once more in an age of economic desparation, fear, scapegoating and mindless hatred. Would people see another Hitler coming, even if he wanted to abolish taxation or something of the kind?

[americanhellcatf6]

@themysteriouscrumpet Good point you made. I would like to think that nations grew smarter after World War II and learn to identify dictatorships quicker then they did before. But then there is the question on whether or not to join the fight to overthrow a dictator or let them in power because it might not directly threaten us. I don't agree with some who say we should isolate ourselves from the world, because it has got us attacked in the past. Pearl Harbor and 9-11 are examples of this.

[themysteriouscrumpet]

@americanhellcatf6 If a war against a dictator seems too extreme, then other, much more practical methods could easily employed against them. The problems is that governments feel they cannot tell large corporations to refuse to do business with foreign dictatorships, and economic blockades only hurt the people living under the dictatorships. However, if committed, intelligent people make dictatorial atrocities widely known, there is a good chance that public opinion will work against dictators.

[americanhellcatf6]

@themysteriouscrumpet Yes, I agree. If the world exposes atrocities under an dictator's grip on his own people, it might turn the world against him and put international pressure on him to resign. Yes, economic sanctions like freezing assets, cutting off trade, oil embargo make life very uncomfortable and the people under the dictator suffer more then their governmemt does.

[chemerich]

@themysteriouscrumpet

"We are living once more in an age of economic desperation, fear, scapegoating and mindless hatred"

Especially when different people are mixed together. A multicultural society is like a time bomb just ready to go off.

[anakrinen220]

@americanhellcatf6

This is one of the scenes that made me sick to my stomach. I had to go back and watch Winds of War to see Dr. Jastrow in Sienna. I couldn't stand listening to him calling himself an old bag of Jewish filth -- kept screaming at the tv, No, you're Doctor Aaron Jastrow, world renown, highly respected author, a man of great intelligence and compassion! I loved him. If he'd been one of my college professors, Dr. Jastrow would no doubt have been my favorite.

[themysteriouscrumpet]

I can't imagine any of Der Fuhrer's zealous disciples frothing about this movie being filled with the "lies" of the Jews who have apparently taken over the world (yet who still permit propaganda against them to dominate youtube and the films of Mel Gibson, and neo-nazis organizations to thrive, for some reason) because Eichman does to Jastrow exactly what they're always saying should be done to every Jew.

[TheSancho76]

Where can I find the whole movie?

[Boelcke1916]

These guys are no doubt in Hell.

[sabirsamee10]

I am  a Muslim. I think Nazis were evil bastards.

[TRUMPER007]

I thought Eichmann was an Obersturmbannfuhrer (Lt.Col) - here he is wearing the uniform of a Standartenfuhrer (Colonel) - somebody got there facts wrong! Pedantic picky I know but it is annoying when films and tv get uniforms etc wrong.

[HE37159]

@TRUMPER007

You are absolutely right. if you look at war and rememberance on wikipedia they are mentioning this as one of the errrors in the miniseries. Still in my opinion the best the best miniseries ever on WW2.

[TRUMPER007]

@HE37159 - I totally agree with you. Also I remember Clifford Rose (famous as 'Kessler' in 'Secret Army') - another favourite of mine, in this mini-series and I think he played a Gruppenfuhrer or Obergruppenfuhrer - can't recall the character - Max? Good to hear from you anyway.

[Marcusx1980]

@TRUMPER007 Yes you are correct and I dont understand why they made this obvious mistake.

[MikestheCat]

Ended up as cremated fish food, after he was hung. Suitable end to a rotten bastard.

[bandibreath]

This scene outraged me so. Guess where Eichman is now, not in heaven. Treating a sweet elderly gentleman so cruelly.

[Gweezian]

@bandibreath Same here. You'd be surprised how many idiots roam youtube spewing otherwise. For instance, you might want to check out the filth if you keyworded: tribute to Amon Goeth. I was there today and left with a bitter taste in my mouth. Kind regards.

[themysteriouscrumpet]

@Gweezian Which ones do you think are worse? The ones who deny the holocaust ever happened yet still call for one in the present day, or the ones who admit that it happened and glory in it, repeating endlessly how deserving the victims were of their suffering and demanding that the slaughter be replicated a thousand fold? Nobody's denying that the bombing of German cities during the war was horrible, but we will get nowhere with this "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" mentality.

[Squab1972]

@bandibreath I found that scene upsetting, the nazis are evil scum.

[irish89055]

@Squab1972 ya think???