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♪♪ >> i was certainly not taught this way in my high school. >> neither was i. >> so im always shocked when i find students of a certain age who havent seen "gone with the wind." and i point to it, you need to watch that film, its the most watched movie of all time. people are eating this stuff up. there is a real reason why people have weddings on plantations, right? you would never go to auschwitz and lets get married. you would never do that. but we have so made black pain and suffering l...

Famous. when i walk by city hall, i walk by -- i walk by the home that my mother was born in. >> you also walked by an auction block, didnt you? >> i did. >> what does that mean in terms of the history? at some point, you arrived at a point in history where people were bought and sold in this community. >> that is an artifact. the very fact that you can stand where somebody was treated as property, and where families were separated, is very moving. its like what germany did when they kept auschw...

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This week the world will observe the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the concentration camp that claimed nearly a third of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

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Holocaust scholars long relied on documents and survivor testimonies to help reconstruct the history of that tragic event. Now, they’re turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures.

Were here at the section of auschwitz now. and you see a barracks from auschwitz, the most infamous killing center. most people upon arrival in auschwitz would be gassed to death. but those who werent gassed would be living in barracks like this under terrible, terrible conditions. lots of overcrowding. theyre in these bunk beds where theyre all squished together. there is no mattresses. theyre lucky if they have a little straw. theyre being worked to death. of course, most of them are going to ...

Pictures of them are seated in parts of the camp are waiting. think they theyre waiting to be processed. of course we know theyre waiting to be gassed. >> there were other horrible things going on at auschwitz as well. >> yes. auschwitz really is a complex of dozens of camps. it is a killing center. it is a concentration camps. there are forced labor. so this is a whole system of nazi ideology where theyre going to destroy their racial enemies and work their other enemies to death. >> and i unde...

And they would do things like sing-alongs and blueberry pickings at this retreat center. >> if you visit the location today, they recreated, they have allowed to remain many, many of the worst aspects of that death camp. >> its when you see it you appreciate the scale of auschwitz, the sheer size of it. again, when you think about the industrial nature, it is like an assembly line. think they got it down to about a penny a body in german funds at the time. it is really extraordinarily efficient,...