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I sat down to watch Band of Brothers last night, expecting to be blown away by mortar shells and gunfire as I have been in the previous episodes, but was totally unprepared for what I was hit with: A surge of emotions & tears that I could not stop.
In the 70's I was in the Army, stationed in Germany & took a visit to Dachau, one of the Germans internment camps for the Jews. The day I visited was a cloudy, gray, cold day and the instant I walked through the gates of Dachau, I could feel the repression and pain that eminated through this camp through time.
It was a very humbling experience, something I have never experienced again since, until last night. Seeing those emaciated people and trying to imagine what they went through was just overwhelming. I still can't believe such a cruel, evil person as Hitler ever lived. How could another human do such atrocities to their fellow man?
In the 70's I was in the Army, stationed in Germany & took a visit to Dachau, one of the Germans internment camps for the Jews. The day I visited was a cloudy, gray, cold day and the instant I walked through the gates of Dachau, I could feel the repression and pain that eminated through this camp through time.
It was a very humbling experience, something I have never experienced again since, until last night. Seeing those emaciated people and trying to imagine what they went through was just overwhelming. I still can't believe such a cruel, evil person as Hitler ever lived. How could another human do such atrocities to their fellow man?