Are Hollywood movies somehow relevant to what those people actually went through? Maybe I’m missing something. Does the work, the artistry that went into making these movies qualify the event in your mind?

You say that the movies, films and documentaries that you have watched make you feel a personal and historic connection with the event. I find that sad; and to be perfectly honest, it upsets me.

I also find it funny that you saw my comment (on Digg) as being idiotic, yet all of the other comments were apparently top notch; that’s laughable at best. As I said in my comment there: I wish that I didn’t even read your article (it was shouted to me and I read nearly everything that’s shouted to me) it has done nothing but upset me and I’m not even Jewish.

It upsets me on a personal level due to the fact that you, a Jew (is that proper? I don’t mean any offense by saying that), find these Hollywood movies to have some sort of historical and personal significance. Not that you aren’t entitled to your opinion, as I said, I just wish that I didn’t bother reading it.

Here is the link to the Hitchcock documentary on Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6076323184217355958

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The year was 1971 and I was in the U.S. Army in Germany. We were convoying vehicles from Rein Mein AFB to Munich. Our convoy stopped for some vehicles to catch up, and as were stopped by the side of the road, word came back that this installation was Dachau (1). As I sat in the back of a jeep, the weather was quite, no one was talking, there was absolutely no noise in the air.

I swear as I am telling you this, the hair began to stand on end on my arms. I heard suffering in low tragic tones. I sensed much suffering. The smell in the air was pungent. I could see the concentration camp, and never has there been such a bitter feeling in my stomach. I had trouble sleeping for many days after that. I couldn't believe we were there. I couldn't believe that place. I said a prayer because I felt i needed to do something. Something was there I had no control over. I felt helpless. I wondered many times if that sick feeling was tranfered from 30 years before me. It was so putrid. I get sick thinking of it now. I remember the after effects to this day, and that was from after thirty years of some of the most heinous atrocities known to mankind.

People will go on as does time. Politics and new generations can never say what went on at Dachau. I fimly believe what went on there was the most heinous of man's inhumanity to man that was ever done or will have ever done to one another. I strongly hope that we never have another point in history again as in Dachau. The Jews have a saying: "Never again." I agree that I hope such atrocities never happen again.

(1) Dachau was a Nazi German concentration camp, and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria which is located in southern Germany.

My personal favorite was Schindler’s List. As I saw that movie, my mind kept going back to Dachau Germany in 1971. I was there with the First Infantry Division on a field training exprcise called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforger]Reforger.[/url]

We were convoying from Frankfurt to Munich and we had no idea what the plan was. We had about 200 vehicles on the road and we stopped at Dachau. As you know, Dachau was the first concentration camp established in Germany where many prisoners were severly mistreated and killed through neglect and abuse.

I’ll never forget the horrid stillness of the history there. I could recount the horrid smell there from 1941. I could hear the anguish of the prisoners. I could see the malnourished prisoners. Frankly, I had nightmares about the place for many months after that. Even though logic dictated there were no prisoners there, I knew there were, and that was enough for me and muy senses.

When I think back to the history of mankind, this heinous part of history will go down as the worst tragedy and man’s inhumanity to man, that will ever have been witnessed.