The SS 'helpers' at Auschwitz

"Here There Are Blueberries," a Pulitzer Prize-nominated play about a Nazi officer's photo album, in part, examines the role of young secretaries at Auschwitz and asks: How much did they know?

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[MichaelForte-jnpn]

The only thing we have learned from history is we haven't learned from history

[SiriusDogStar]

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
Fred Rogers

[beverlystraus]

Each of my parents was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.
My parents met months later at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp in Germany.
They met & married there afterca very brief "courtship".
My beother was born in the DP camp.
They finally received immigration papers for the USA after 3 years of waiting there, gratefully!!!

[greatsol]

It’s interesting how little people learn from history.

[voiceovershill]

There’s something horrifying about seeing people smiling and having fun at one of the most evil places in history.

[aimeeinkling]

The banality of evil. That photo album is the greatest historical document demonstrating that concept.

[lovewillwinnn]

History always repeats itself until it’s resolved. Sadly, most people will not change.

[jimmccormick]

ther grew up in the depression. He was accustomed to seeing farms go vacant, with little or no warning. To his astonishment, and a guard at Nuremberg, he watched people testify that they never ever thought anything was amiss for entire neighborhoods going vacant. For those same homes being made available WITH other people's belongings, to high ranking officers. He saw people say "I noever thought about it" to seeing trains full of people rolling east. NONE coming back. ever. You can delude yourself of the truth, but, it never really become true, does it????

[prschuster]

This is why empathy must be stronger than patriotism.

[davidthomspson]

They documented EVERYTHING....yet deniers still exist

[ArmandoBellagio]

They're so happy next to the killings going on which makes it all the more bizarre and gruesome in a way.

[Sassy]

My dad was liberated by the Russians. A soldier in the army.

[MrEjidorie]

The most cruel people are not psychopaths but ordinary people who are good husbands, good fathers and good sons etc. They try to be a good member of the organization they belong to, and they will do their utmost to please tops of their organizations. After the war, they returned to their homes as good husbands, good fathers and good sons as they used to be. And many of them were prosecuted as criminals against humanity. We should remember that all of us could be like them.

[jenm]

How can we see these photos and not compare to what is happening today? People in uniform laughing at the torture and humiliation of others...humans are cruel animals.

[adriannarobeson]

My mother will be 89 Sunday and she had a German Jewish friend who was a Holocaust Survivor and lived downstairs from us in are apartment building back in the late 70s, and I remember the horrible story she told us, that she witnessed her parents murdered by the Nazis when she was only 7 years old let alone she had numbers tattooed on her arm, we didn't dare to asked her how she survived because we were so afraid it would traumatized her even more, but long story short Val that was her name ended up moving back to West Germany in the mid 80s.

[malvavisco]

I hope I can see the play sometime, what an important story. It ties in well with the movie Zone of Interest that won the best international feature Oscar this year. Thank you for this thought-provoking piece/interview.

[timmellin]

I will never watch the "Blueberries" lines in Sound of Music w/ the same frame of mind again, after learning this.

[winstonoboogie]

And after you've been freed, you still have to live with the memory, in a world of people who don't learn history, and cannot empathize. So it happens again, and again..

[YaelOrel]

America should study these pieces of history very hard, because we're on our way there

[minuteman]

Those photos were rare insider pictures of the guards at belsen, them laughing and well fed whilst feet away the death machine ovens at work.handpickedsociopaths