Sunday - December 17, 2006

TV Alert

Now that Dan Rather has been given the boot and Mike Wallace’s brain finally turned into peanut butter, it may be safe to watch 60 Minutes again. I don’t know for sure but I’ll watch it tonight and see for myself although I haven’t watched SEE-BS’s weekly news magazine in over twenty years.

I’m going to watch tonight (and maybe even record it) because of one particular segment that might prove to be interesting if for no other reason than the fact that it covers 50 million pages of meticulous documentation the Nazis kept on those they murdered in the Holocaust.

These documents have been sealed and inaccessible to the public for over 60 years. They are finally being made available for viewing at a most propitious occasion with Iran currently hosting it’s convention of Holocaust-deniers.

Not that President Ahmawhackjob will watch the show or ever look at any of the documents. He is too busy building nuclear weapons to be concerned with the facts of history ... especially those facts that prove the IslamoNazis’ goal of “wiping Israel off the face of the Earth” is nothing new.

The only difference is Hitler had to chase down the Jews, homosexuals and gypsies all across Europe while “Whacky” and his fellow travelers in the Religion Of Piss have the Jews bottled up in one tiny plot of land.

There is one other minor difference that the IslamoNazis need to keep in mind ... I’d bet a ton of money that this time the Jews won’t be led to the slaughter and if Israel is indeed destroyed they won’t go down without a fight.

I’d also bet that Teheran, Damascus, Medina, Mecca, Cairo, Amman, Tripoli and a few other cities might be reduced to smoking, melted sand that glows in the dark for centuries to come. Come to think of it, I’d be perfectly willing to push the button myself.

Never again ...

Revisiting The Horrors Of The Holocaust
Millions Of Nazi Documents Are Being Made Available To The Public

When: Sunday, December 17 - 7:00PM ET/PT (CBS)

One man holds his fate in his hands: a list of inmates — his name among them, but crossed off — who were sent to a notorious slave labor camp few ever emerged from. Another holds the very card he signed as a teenager upon his entry to a concentration camp.

A third sees a form the Nazis created to track the mail he never received in Buchenwald because the rest of his family had already been murdered at Auschwitz. All three Holocaust survivors are viewing for the first time the records the Nazis meticulously kept on them and 17 million other victims of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Their stories and other revelations from the secret archives previously closed for 60 years are part of correspondent Scott Pelley’s report, this Sunday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on 60 Minutes.

Seized when Germany fell to the Allies in 1945, the documents were deposited in an archive in the German city of Bad Arolsen and have been tightly controlled for privacy reasons ever since. Sitting on 16 miles of shelving, they number 50 million pages covering 17.5 million victims, not only Jews but also millions of slave laborers, political prisoners, homosexuals and Roma. They reveal the horrible: For 90 minutes on Hitler’s birthday, a prisoner was shot every two minutes as a gift to the Führer. They tell the mundane: Lice on prisoners were counted and classified as small, medium and large.

They contain a few familiar names, Anne Frank, for one, and a famous list, the one belonging to factory owner Oskar Schindler, who put prisoners’ names on his list to save them from death. Both stories were immortalized in literature and film. But the records mainly hold the names of millions of unknown victims, some of whom survived to tell their stories, like Miki Schwartz, Walter Feiden and Jack Rosenthal. 60 Minutes was able to secure a private viewing of the records for these three men before they are made more accessible within a year.

The documents were quite a revelation, and Schwartz says he was glad he saw them. He also has a message for people who doubt the horrors he went through, especially the Holocaust deniers whose convention just ended in Iran. “Those people who said the Holocaust didn’t happen, like the president of Iran, if they have any questions about it, please come to Bad Arolsen and check it out for themselves,” says Schwartz.

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