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I just watched the film The Zone of Interest.

Much of my family vanished into those camps during the early 1940s. Over the years I have been contacted by others with my last name who are looking for traces of ones with our name who vanished.

My grandmother always badgered every German with the question "You knew, what did you do about it?"

The film faces that question squarely and answers "yes, they knew, and they did nothing."

The film was subtle - the sounds of background gunfire and screaming were barely noticeable at the start but increased slowly as the film progressed. And I missed the significance of the FLIR reverse video scenes of the girl with the potatoes.

If the trump era has taught us anything it is that here in the USA there are many among us who would readily and happily assume the role of the Hoss family as they live their pleasant lives on the bodies of others of us who they do not consider human.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone

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