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Oh, please, stop exploiting the holocaust


We get it!
Really, we do!
Stop that please, we don't need to remember just that. We know it already by heart because of the zillions of movies cashing on this topic.
And as a tribute to Mr.Boll I will most certainly skip watching this one.

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maybe if you took your head out of your ass and looked around you would see a millions of people who are doubting the holocaust happened at all.

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Movies like these need to be made. Never forget. Don't dwell. But never forget.

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laikinasemail, not millions of people claim it never happened, only germans. And they aren't people. My proof is the producer of this board's film.

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Well, one of the most well-known Holocaust deniers is David Irving, and he's British. And of course there is the Institute for Historical Review, seated in California. They have conventions on a yearly basis, providing and creating international networks for holocaust deniers, giving them the opportunities to publish and promote their books and essays.
In Germany it is actually illegal to deny the Holocaust, people have been sent to jail for that.

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Uwe Boll says that this holocaust movie will be different than the rest.
Check out this exclusive interview about Auschwitz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huqiOG51gms

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The proof of the Holocaust are the witnesses (on both sides) and the photographs and film footage.

Denying it is a sign there is something wrong with you, not that you're special and can see beyond 'lies'. Try to be special in a less demented way because even if you're right (you aren't!), you're life's effed!

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and the photo of bigfoot is real to lol

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"Uwe Boll says that this holocaust movie will be different than the rest."

In what sense will it be different? Will it be a comedy - which is what all Uwe's films turn out to be (unless he WAS intentionally trying to make a comedy) in which case, it turns out to be a tragedy instead ...

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THANK YOU!

There must be 100 fiction films, documentaries and shows on this subject, while other tragedies, including more recent and even ongoing ones, are completely ignored. I don't see people getting so emotional about the many other tragedies that happened 70 years ago. I think It's about time this subject stopped being treated like such a sensitive tragedy, as if it was still going on, and became part of history.

No one has a limitless amount of endurance to pain, and I think it's better to focus on injustices happening today in our surroundings, than to fill ourselves with tragic events that have been over for several decades, until we can't take more pain and only want to relax. It doesn't mean we should forget about the holocaust, just study it differently, like we study our history. Living in the past makes us apathetic.

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I think the fundamental difference in Boll's approach is, that he depicted the killings in Auschwitz almost as "industrialized", and the "work" of the SS-guards as an "ordinary day at the office", which I think was exactly his intention.
After all, these guards were blunted and dulled down to such an extent, that they weren't able or willing to see, that they were part of an industrialized and meticulously planned killing process.
The almost unemotional depiction of the process and the quite indifferent looking "work" of the guards is, at least imho, more true to reality than Hollywood's usual heroism or typical Nazi-villains you see in so many movies.

At least to me, the horror of it all doesn't just lie in the ammount of killings, which you can't comprehend anyway, but also in this cold, emotionless process, that makes concentration camps like Auschwitz somehow a "killing-plant", a factory for the systematic erradication of people.

I don't think Boll's Auschwitz-depiction is a master piece by showing this, but it indeed brings something completely new on the table, nobody was willing to show, or dared to show, yet.

A few years ago, I read a book about German soldiers and their letters home. Indeed, some of these soldiers sometimes wrote letters to their loved ones that make you cringe. They wrote about mass killings like it was nothing special, just "business as usual", something you would see every day. In some way, the whole situation not only did de-humanize the jews as "Untermenschen", but it also de-humanized soldiers involved in these crimes against humanity, to some extent due to Nazi-propaganda, but also by putting them, as soldiers, into a setting, that is far away from "normal" life as a civilian. This is you can more or less observe in any war, but in WWII, it was also used for the national-socialist cause.
Imho, people are capable of things they couldn't imagine, once they are ripped out of their social structures and norms, into a surrounding where humanity doesn't count anymore. That's why Boll did this film in the first place, I think. It just can happen again, any time, anywhere.

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