Film Recommendation: "Judgment at Nuremberg"

[Shepherd]

As America goes down, down, way down, further into state-run violence and terrorism, I have been watching the 1961 academy award winning film “Judgment at Nuremberg.” The Rohnert Park library has a copy.

Germany-style fascism, which took millions of lives, may now be rising in America. It is important to remember history, or we may repeat the same mistakes. How many more children, immigrants, people of color, jews, Muslims, and other innocents must be jailed, separated from their parents, abused, and killed here before we wake up?

The film's all-star cast includes Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, and many other notables. The director and producer was Stanley Kramer. It is about justice. The LA Times describes it as “magnificent” and The New Yorker adds that it is “continuously exciting.”

The film reveals that many German citizens then—as with many Americans today--were in a state of denial or refused to protest the killings and abuse of civilians, done in their names. Murders in the U.S. by civilians and others of people of color, gays, and others grows. Schools and streets are no longer as safe as they used to be.

The film is about the American judges who preside over the trial of 4 German jurists accused of “legalizing” Nazi atrocities, sterilizing people, and engaging in other forms of violence in German and throughout Europe. It is about the Germans “love of country,” right or wrong, at the expense of many. Sound familiar?

We now, once again, have concentration camps here in our beloved country, full of thousands of innocent children and families. Their crime is often only that they are people of color and some were not born here in our beloved U.S.

“Be ye not like a child, you’ll not get into the kingdom of heaven,” according to the Christian bible. It’s time to wake up to what now may be happening here in our beloved America.

[Shepherd]

Though I have not seen it yet, a friend informs me that there is a TV documentary series entitled "The Dark Charisma of Adolph Hitler" which also received rave reviews, and is available on Netflix. As the famous saying goes, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Today's weapons are so much more powerful than those of Hitler's time, and more countries have them.

Trump does have a "dark charisma," which I do not respond well to, but millions of people do. Everything that lives dies, even countries and eventually planets. If our "dark" president, whom some respond to his abusive charisma, presses the nuclear button, it would be all over.

[“Be ye not like a child, you’ll not get into the kingdom of heaven,” according to the Christian bible. It’s time to wake up to what now may be happening here in our beloved America.

[eeeeeeow]

I saw this doc. Two things struck me:

First: As someone whose father was in WWII, I was always interested in that war. I was completely taken back at some of the footage that I'd never seen from European sources. These clips were focused, not so much on the battlefield, but of the everyday life of normal people whose lives were turned upside down.

Secondly: The stunning dynamics of Hitler's rise to power and how they run shockingly parallel with Donald Trump's. It is bone chilling. It is dark and scary and oh so sad. Simply because it applies to our government today.

See it. Decide for yourself.

Though I have not seen it yet, a friend informs me that there is a TV documentary series entitled "The Dark Charisma of Adolph Hitler" which also received rave reviews, and is available on Netflix. As the famous saying goes, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Today's weapons are so much more powerful than those of Hitler's time, and more countries have them...

[cyberanvil]

We now, once again, have concentration camps here in our beloved country, full of thousands of innocent children and families. Their crime is often only that they are people of color and some were not born here in our beloved U.S.

Like many, I protest the use of the label "Concentration Camps".
The horror of the German camps is light years away from today's reality. Perhaps if the Democrats would focus on people rather than Trump, conditions could be improved. Didn't AOC complain and vote against money for beds?

[Shepherd]

My former wife's Japanese-American parents died in the concentration camps here in the U.S. Wake UP, before it is too late! Even if you do not like the term "concentration camps," what are you doing to support the people of color and others who moved here with promises of freedom? Are you suggesting that Democrats are the problem?

Like many, I protest the use of the label "Concentration Camps"....