2023-07-15 Part of a pattern, the film “Final Account” (Netflix)

• People stepping up to the plate.  They’re speaking out because they’re worried.  That’s the pattern.    (I just want to keep track.  I don’t have time at the moment to write up more.)   The film “Final Account” (Netflix).  A series of interviews of older people who played a role in the Nazi machinery.  If you get off to a weak start with this film,  I recommend that you stick with it.  It’s inciteful.   I have not before seen a film from this perspective.   The interviewer cuts to the chase.

    From one interviewee:  “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous.  More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

    Hannah Arendt’s observations from the trial of Adolph Eichmann, “The Banality of Evil”, the wording a bit different.

• 2023-07-10 A Childhood Unspoken, by Marie Doduck “It’s happening again and it won’t be just Jews.”

• (This is a remarkable interview.  I haven’t read the book)   Josef Lewkowicz, 96 years old,   tells his story in a new memoir   https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15986963-holocaust-survivor-josef-lewkowicz-tells-story-memoir 

• 2023-07-09 (covid mandates) The Appeal made to the EU Parliament regarding the Artur Pawlowski case in Alberta + UPDATE