anne frank/ WWII...?

In May '45 World War 11 ended for the Netherlands, I was born 7 years after that, so when I wnet to primary school and highschool, WW11 was still "recent" enough to get a lot of education on it.

It sure taught me that something like this may never, ever happen again, and I will stand for that until I die.

Unfortunately, in some countries, that message hasn't gotten through yet, and that's very scary....also the fact that the underground Neo-Nazi movements are still very much alive, scares me to no end.

Not to long ago I saw a documentary on Dutch TV, in which Americans were asked what they knew about WW11, and I was absolutely shocked at how little the people who were asked, knew about it.....no wonder a lot of people still haven't gotten the message that we should not let anything like that happen again.

Reading your post restored my hope a bit, I'm really glad that not most Americans (as I was led to believe) know nothing about WW11, and that there's still attention for it in the schools of today.

Kudos to you for understanding how incredibly horrible this all was.....a very good documentary, which tells you a LOT about WW11, is called (if I remember the title correctly) "Shoah", it's an at least 8 hour long docu about the holocaust, by asking questions to the ones who either survived it, or who saw it all happening. Also you get to see interviews with the people who actually were the torturors, and with people who were traitors (they betrayed their own people to the Germans, like the person who betrayed the Frank-family and the others living in the Achterhuis, we called them NSB-ers)

I strongly recommend that docu, it made a lasting impression on me.

And yes, reading the diary of Anne is a great idea as well......it gives you a better insight in what happened in "het Achterhuis"" then any movie can.

Mind you, it weren't only Jews that were murdered by the Nazi's, they also killed a lot of Gypsies, and handicapped people, be it physical or mentally.

Maybe you like to check out this link:

http://www.holocaust-history.org/

I had read the book of Anne frank and seen the documentary. That time period was horrible. The way the Germans had treated the Jews and also how the wanted to take over the world is also wrong. But there is no way of changing in the world. I have watched every movie there is on WWll and i can't understand why they did so much. they had wiped out almost 50% of the Jewish population. But what can anyone do?

I love that time period. It is very sad how the Germans treated the Jewish people. I have read all kinds of books on that subject. It is amazing how many stories are out there and what people would do to survive. One story that I read talked about about 20 people getting locked up in an attic of a Chrisitan family. The Jewish family could not speak, stnd or do anything but sit on the floor. They hid like this for nearly 2 yrs. Until the war was over. Other families, worked in the concentration camps... shoveling dead bodies into open pits and buring them. Mass Graves, are what they are called.

Well, it was extreamly harsh to find out about what the NAZI'S did to the victims of the concentration camps. First I put Nazi's in big letters because it wasn't just Germans, because there was a large German-Jewish population, so saying that it was the Germans is disrespectful to the innocent victims of Nazi terror. Second, the Jewish population was not the only population of the Concentration Camps. Gypsies, and just about anyone that didn't fit Hitlers list of a perfect race, i.e. blond and blue eyed. Unfortunately my grandfather had visited one of the major concentration camps in Germany and walked through it. He said that it was one of the worst experiences of his life, telling me about the way the Nazi's would tell them that they needed to be 'clean' to enter the camps, they would strip naked and enter the gas chambers, the door would close and instead of water came the gas, like you said, a horrible way to die. There is a great movie about the holocaust called the Devils Arithmetic with Kirsten Dunst. It paints a pretty clear picture about what the women had to go through. Also there is a good book called Anne Frank and Me, I own it but I'm not sure who its by. I'm pretty good about memorizing dates and such, and I'm really good with history, (mainly because I'm pre-law), if you would ever like help with this or just want more information, feel free to contact me.

it wasn't the germans it was the nazis. I say this as to not associate germans of today with the past of then. Hitler was a very nasty man and while some of the nazis were equally as bad, the rest were just scared for their own lives and did as they were told for that reason. It was a terrible time to which i can't even possibly imagine. I watched Schindlers list the other day and i was taken aback.

Yes, I've read the book several times....the whole thing is horribly sad! But seeing as I have a lil german in me don't think its fair to say that the germans did this, the nazis did...

The whole holocaust was wrong and it shouldn't have happened. I heard a story that a man had to put a child into the furnace otherwise the Nazis would shoot him. He decided to put the child in the furnace. He saved his own skin.