[Skybird]

I was age 11 when I first say a school movie called "By Nacht und Nebel", and I must say: yes, it shocked me and most others, far more than Schindler's List could ever do, because the film used documentary material, and it hid nothing, while Schindler's List in the end is just playactied scenes and narration, compared to the documentary movie it is absolutely tame.

I agree with Schroeder, it was a shock, and it troubled my mind for a longer time afterwards, due to the brutal pictures of piles of bodies that were so thin you even could mistaken them for animals, and the visions of the gas and burning chmabers. But seen from a pespective of just a few years later, it is and was a healthy shock.

If such films do not shock anymore - what else short of the repetition of the real thing would? for the same reason I criticise the military-lobbying recruiting videos, and movies that glorify being a soldier and fight in a war, like so many blockbuster do. They are lame and tame in 9 out of 10 cases, and give a lame and tame impression of the real thing. By that it is no wonder that a society that is exposed to this kind of "culture" in general is more eager to accept politics turning into wars, like a society that still carries the scars of the last war in it's very middle, and sees the scars in the buildings of all major towns and cities, still. If somebody wants to volunteer in the miliztary, let him come to that deciison all by himself and then respect it. But lobbying for such a decision and trying to make people making such decisions and talk them into it, in my opinion simply is a real and very serious crime.