I only intended to watch the part you linked but watched til the end. What an ending too.
There’s something to be said about her and Klein finding lifelong love at the end of all that unimaginable grief and hardship.

I don’t usually watch Holocaust documentaries these days because they are just so heavy and brutal but it feels like occasionally checking in with this very very recent horror is good perspective.

I remember reading about similar circumstances in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The brutality of the holocaust is something I find truly disturbing and yet I crave the knowledge. These stories are why we study History in our society. It is imperative to do our best to never repeat the atrocities so many societies have committed, including our own.

Fwiw, ski boots at this time were essentially heavy leather hiking boots.

why? he already has a psychiatric diagnosis.

There is some joy in the end of this documentary, as Gerda’s work camp was liberated by a Jewish American GI who she later fell in love with and married.

Highly recommend starting from the beginning and giving her full story a listen. Its definitely worth watching all the way through.

Here's another interesting bit of info on her (from her Wikipedia page):

"[Her mother] Helene Weissman was forced into a group slated for a death camp; Gerda, deemed fit for work, was sent to a labor camp. As she and others boarded trucks, Gerda jumped out in a frantic effort to reunite with her mother. According to Weissmann Klein's account, Moshe Merin, head of the local Jewish Council Judenrat, threw her back in her truck, saying 'You are too young to die.'"

I think that’s an oversimplification that we should avoid. Evil can exist in any person. I think most evil (at least on a larger/societal scale) is actually caused or enabled by people who truly believe their cause to be morally right, as well as people who are just plain ignorant/stupid. Germans under the nazis were certainly capable of empathy, but they were convinced it was the Jews who were evil and that they themselves were truly superior. I think the average Trump voter was capable of empathy, but they just didn’t see the reality of who he was because they were ignorant, either willfully or otherwise

Edit: I also think a major cause of evil is dehumanizing/“othering” certain people. I’m sure many in the KKK are capable of empathy, but they’ve successfully dehumanized other races to the point that they don’t see anything wrong with brutally killing them

I think KW needs to visit a neuropsychologist for an assessment.

she came to my high school after we read book . Really incredible story

i believe evil only exists in people who cannot feel empathy. Kanye west is incapable of empathy

Kanye is American, he doesn’t need Nazis from Germany to figure that out, we have the confederates here at home.

He wouldn't survive a day under the "care" of the people he purports to admire

Fuck the Nazis. Somebody should make Kanye and other idiots like him spend 1 day in the inhumane treatment their favorite fascists inflicted on others, and I bet they would change their tune.

"Where are your ski boots?" He told her to put them on. It was June, but she did and she wore them for the 3 years she was in the camp. There were pictures of her parents and brother hidden in them. But what was important was that on the march she had boots on and other girls had sandals.

He told her to go put her ski boots on despite it being a hot day in the middle of June. She didnt understand but did it anyways. The death march was in frigid temperatures so she was able to survive. There were, unfortunately, many girls in the march who were wearing sandals.

Also hoping to just read the words.

What were the words? Don’t really feel like seeing this. Too depressing.

Got whiplash just watching it.

They are not fighting, they are necking…. 🦒🦒

the larger one had greater club head speed...

don’t watch it!!

Yeah seems like he missed the punch by his horns and smacked face first into his opponent lol. Generally seems like a inefficient/painful way of fighting to be honest, losing brain cells with every slap

For some reason giraffes fighting are the hardest animal fights for me to look at. I mean what other animal violently flings their head around on a long ropey neck like this?

It looks ridiculous, imagine having your head where your fist is and then smacking people with it. It's just so weird and painful looking.

I mean, the giraffe at the end seems to pretty much knock himself out

Larger one was winning with his counter attacks until he knocked himself out

"Wind your neck in mate" "You wind your neck in"