Watched Schindlers List last night.

[bluestarone]

I recommend that movie to everyone here. PLUS i would love our congress persons to mention that movie on THE FLOOR. Folks, we are so close to that happening right now that it is NOT funny! I wish parents every teenager today would get their child to watch and REMEMBER what happened to those poor people back during that time, and how easily it could happen again.

[Takket]

1. i watched that move recently too........

i remember the first time i watched it..... thinking how awful it was... and how grateful i was that such evil had been defeated, and we had "learned our lesson"

how naive i was....... the only reason why drumpf and miller haven't opened up gas chambers at this point is they don't think they can get away with going THAT far, but i have no doubt they would if they could. but fascism has come to America, and for them, the rounding up of people in concentration camps and mass deportations are "the next best thing".

[bluestarone]

2. Oh, you are 100% correct

These monsters are the very same monsters back then. Yes they would do anything today they could get away with, and WILL if they are not stopped.

[Katinfl]

3. Also, "The Pianist" with Adrian Brody.

[bluestarone]

4. TY will ck it out!

[Torchlight]

5. I've never had an experience like the one I had watching it

in a packed theater, where the audience left almost in complete silence... no conversation, just whispers and the sound of people wiping away tears. It forced me to confront both the worst and the best of what we are capable of. That confrontation lingered quietly and, over time, has changed me by more than a few degrees.

[Moostache]

6. Not necessarily European or WWII, but these films are also required viewing in my mind:

These are VERY disturbing movies and powerful performances about the 1994 Rwandan genocide...
Hotel Rwanda (2004): Tells the story of Paul Rusesabagina, who saved over a thousand refugees in his hotel.
Shooting Dogs (2005): Follows a British priest and a journalist trapped during the crisis.

We cheapen the phrase "never again" when we cover our eyes and ears and ignore any "again" (Gaza now, Rwanda and others as well) or fail to call it out and stop it.

If the GOP cancels the elections in November or attempts to install Trump's corpse as ruler in perpetuity when his heart explodes (hopefully later today or at the earliest possible moment), they are not likely to start execution camps - but ICE is essentially the precursor for state sponsored execution squads that would roam the streets and execute "enemies" of the state as decided by Stephen fucking Miller and Cos-play Barbie.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I remember the Seinfeld episode when Jerry's

parents are appalled that he was making out at the movies with his date during this film.

I have seen and researched the film quite a bit. The real Nazi that Ralph Fiennes played as SS officer Amon Göth was really that bad. He was hanged for stealing money from the money that the Nazis stole from the countries they destroyed. I've seem videos from the two slaves who were his maids. I have seen them tour Goth's Nazi "villa" together. He even had a daughter or granddaughter who is black. Fiennes did a great job capturing his true sadism.