Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Ernst Michel
The breakfast/talk was so very enlightening and interesting. I hated to miss class, but Ernst Michel was friendly, nice..etc. He managed to survive Auschwitz and covered the Nuremberg Trial as a journalist. He even had a chance to meet Goering, but said that he couldn't do it, come face to face with him. It's good that he is able to talk about his experiences in the Holocaust. Not many people can, I think, and those that can, are dying out. Witnesses are getting old and dying. On NPR today, they reported that the German govt. is actually opening up ALL documents from WWII. How cool is that! Maybe even more history will be found, and some questions answered a bit more. Anyway, it was exciting and sad to hear him speak, but I am so glad I went.
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Thank you for the synopsis. But umm stupid question likely but who is Goering that Michel didn't want to meet face to face?
I believe Goering was the head of the SS troops.
Goering was the Reichmarshal - the second in command basically and along with Himmler and Heydrich set up the early concentration camps and then later the Final Solution - oh, and he was the one who began/led the Gestapo early on too - not someone good. I can't believe that Ernst (the survivor)could even contemplate seeing him, much less talking to him.
Ooooohhhhh, big evil. Gotcha.
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