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You have some very valid points, Hazle. If it was 60,000,000, I stand corrected. I understood it to be 20,000,000. But even at 20,000,000 the figure is so high, it is almost incomprehensible to most people's minds - it represents getting on for 40% of the population of the UK. It is so high, unless you have had the tragedy of actually losing a direct descendant at one of those places, it is just a number.
With regards to it being old hat, archive films showing those who actually survived Auschwitz and the atrocities which were carried out with all the bodies piled high had a profound effect on me, as indeed it would most people BUT, and here I stress my point. many people have seen footage of the terrible goings on at Auschwitz and Belsen several times over the years. We all know what happened in those and other camps, so the shock factor lessens to a small degree every time the documentary is shown on television. Unless I am wrong, there have been rather less documentaries on losses on the Russian side. I'm not made of stone, but if you mention the words Auschwitz and documentary, your body and mind automatically steel themselves for what is to come.
Finally on the God side, Auschwitz is thrown up in my face every time I give a personal testimony or preach the Gospel. In short, I don't know why God never heard the cries of the dying in Auschwitz or any other camp for that matter. Any more than why didn't God hear the cries of those in bondage and slavery before sending Moses to set His people free. I don't know these answers, because I am not a scolar or theologan. I am just plain cold Fred who cried out to the Lord when he was right at the edge of a nervous breakdown in 2003, and God heard his personal cry for help and has been with him 24/365 ever since. I am not an evangelist I couldn't preach to thousands of people like Billy Graham which is what got me down, until somebody put me wise: "God doesn't want you as a preacher - He just wants you as yourself." (Here endeth the second lesson). 
A very harrowing, but an exceptionally good read. Written by the stepdaughter (Eva Schloss) of Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank. She was a Holocaust survivor, although her father and brother sadly did not escape the Natzi ordeal. She and her mother were freed in 1945 by Russian troops. Even now at the grand old age of 85, she still goes around the schools up and down the country, talking about her experiences.
@malacandran wrote:I've read the book too. But it didn't strike me as very convincing. Not as a genuine diary. More like something cooked-up for publication after the war.
Do you really think the diary is a fake!
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