German horror film about the Holocaust sparks outrage

The problem is the film appears to have no historical context. Looks like just gore and violence for the sake of gore and violence looks like a cheaply made Saw or Hostile sequel.

Actually, from that clip, that looks like historical context. Most horror movies pale in comparison to the systematic slaughter of millions of people.

agreed, perhaps humanity will one time wake up to the inhumanity that it does to it self,some time.

ill give you genocide, but the holocaust is seperate

Yeah, technically Holocaust is a noun referring to that, so genocide is the more correct term...yet it seems somewhat odd arguing over grammar and such in such a sad topic...

exactly, it's all mass murder.

http://attrocity.it

well it has an exastential element to it, in that genocide is hardly a new attrocity.it isnt about speceficity for the sake of being technical, but an important distinction, as what happened in ww2 was a specific genocide.one never imagined before.

of the myriad of differences that exist between what happened to german jews, and say rwanda, is the role technology played.the holocaust if nothing else is more than just a genocide, but a genocide that was the inspiration for technological advancement.an event that in the industrial age is akin to war generaly.not civilian liquidation.

the lesson that every tech offers a malevolence despite its intended benefit.a lesson einstien and oppenhiemer didnt know, and the japanese wish they had.the lesson that despite things seeming normal, as jews were often treated poorly, can be also an indication of grave danger.

it is a huge difference to be hunted, and another to be lulled into collective demise.that is the distinction, not a grammatic anomoly.

Sorry if it seemed I was saying it wasn't important, I just thought it seemed an odd thing to be debating.

its the whole "holocaust is jewish history" thing, that is the problem.of those directly effected at this point, few still exist.it isnt about us as jews, but us, as human beings.
i understand (believe me i do) the displeasure in learning about such matters, and how it is so ugly it deters people from delving into it.but a zillion lessons get lost.that is why the distinction is important.the lessons not learned leave a person vulnerable to a repeat occurance.not only as victims, but becoming nazis.i mean look at the tea party.sure they are hardly nazis, but they sure are subject to mob mentality void of reason.

one of the elements at play today for instnace, is the catagorizing a people as "problems", there fore requiring a solution, ie final solution.the narrative that had been cultivated for centuries in europe in reference to jews, that served as a precursor for the holocaust, is the same narrative we are seeing in our society in reference to islam.from oklahoma legislating sharia even though it is an imaginery threat, to the general notion that all of islam are our collective enemy.all the ground work required for an attrocity, that thanks to the holocaust we can avoid, we are walking right into.the obsession on obamas middle name is identical to how "goldberg" was used a half century ago.

im not bothered as a jew, that the distinction isnt made between the holocaust and your run of the mill genocide.but as a human being, and an american, that our collective passive tolerance of the malevolence from yesterday is making us vulnerable to being the evil force of tomorrow.out of some sense that slavery is our burden from wich we learn, not germany's errors.like some how as americans we are above falling prey to the same human errors that they did.
now im just rambling/preaching.sorry