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<p>Historians have only recently wised up to the need to capture eyewitness remembrances of events. As the "Greatest Generation" passes and the Baby Boomers age, a cultural historian urges: talk to people while you still can. </p>
<p>Historians have only recently wised up to the need to capture eyewitness remembrances of events. As the "Greatest Generation" passes and the Baby Boomers age, a cultural historian urges: talk to people while you still can. </p>
Final Account chronicles thoughts of aging Nazis, Holocaust witnesses Margarete Schwarz in Klaus Kleinau in Photo courtesy of Focus Features The atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis before and during World War II are well-documented, but what has rarely been put on film are interviews with those who witnessed or perpetrated the crimes. The most famous example is the 1985 film Shoah, a more than nine-hour documentary by Claude Lanzmann that told the story of the Holocaust directly from the mouths of survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators. The new documentary Final Account...
Luke Holland's film, which chronicles the complicity of ordinary Germans in the crimes of the Third Reich, is a reminder that it's easy to label our enemies as Nazis...but the true search for evil should begin in the mirror. 'Final Account' is a...
Allied forces liberated Hitlerâs death camps 75 years ago. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. stands more than 2,000 miles from Helena. A Montana high school teacher is dedicated to keeping time and distance from muting the lessons of the Holocaust. Lacy Watson of Billings West facilitates workshops for educators on that dark period in world history. Watson, who holds a master’s degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will be one of the instructors at a June 13 workshop on the campus of MSU-Billings on “Worlds Apart But Not Strangers: Holocaust Educatio...