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Last night BBC2 aired a new programme about the holocaust which centered on Sir Simon Schama a well known and much revered historian who I must say is normally a joy to watch. I well remember many of his programmes about cities, civilisations and art throughout the ages. They were all highly enjoyable and of the highest calibre.

And then we get this. A self centered holo-fest of gloom and untruth, edited in a way to mislead and confuse and without so much as a question or any evidence. Once again we see a tv show about the claimed holocaust that utterly fails to at least try and explain what actually happened and why without regurgitating the same old nonsense.

Schama is of course jewish, though born in London to a jewish mother who er survived the holocaust...

After a lengthy intro of huffing and puffing and plenty of sourpuss face pulling, and the obligatory pictures, incorrect used, of death camp bodies piled high, none of which were taken at Auschwitz, he got on his way to Lithuania. Lithuania because for him that is where the holocaust started, in that garage forecourt murder by a mob carrying steel bars and wooden posts in Kaunus. He had just painted a jolly picture of Kaunus pre-war where he claimed 40,000+ jews lived in a thriving community/society with dozens of synagogues and a jolly life for all. Then the nazis turned up and the killing began. He never asked why, or what the non jewish locals didn't like about the jews to make them suddenly and without any bad blood before make them slaughter the jews in that garage back yard. Odd.

He then goes to Auschwitz and stands in all the right places talking of mass murder, gas chambers and smoking chimneys. And never once adds anything new or unique to the established story. Not once did he question the process, the numbers or the intent. He just blabbed on about the usual in a gloomy 'I am a jew and I'm horrified' kind of way. I thought historians were supposed to apply modern knowledge and practices to old stories and understand more about reality. Not Simon.

There is a moment when Sir Simon Schama looks straight at the camera in his latest documentary – the first to take him to Auschwitz – and it is one of the rawest things ever seen on television.

Having come face to face with the horror of what antisemitism can lead to, he cannot hold it in. He admits to a “tidal wave of monstrous fury at everyone. Not just the SS. Not just the Germans. It took hundreds of years of bigger dehumanising hatred to make it conceivable that a whole civilisation ends up in smoke.”

And then comes the kicker as his eyes fill with tears and he shakes with fury. “Pity is what others who aren’t Jews feel. Screw the pity.”

I have a tidal wave of monstrous fury at everyone. It took centuries of dehumanising hatred for a whole civilisation to end up in smoke

Far away from now-cold furnaces of the death camp, in a Maida Vale café, our most erudite and brilliant historian may look cosy in his thick cardigan as he sips decaffeinated cappuccino in the weak spring sunshine, but he still feels that anger and he wants to express it.

Concurrently, Jews were being rounded up and taken to Ponar forest outside Vilnius where they were stripped and then shot and buried in mass graves. Up to 70,000 Jews were killed there in the space of a few months. In 1944, the fleeing Nazis, in a desperate attempt to hide their crimes, instructed Jewish prisoners to exhume the mass graves and burn the bodies. Some of the prisoners recognised their own family members – one recognised his wife by a necklace he had given her. Amazingly, three of them survived to write about it.

Of course they did dear.

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After a lengthy intro of huffing and puffing and plenty of sourpuss face pulling, and the obligatory pictures, incorrect used, of death camp bodies piled high, none of which were taken at Auschwitz, he got on his way to Lithuania. Lithuania because for him that is where the holocaust started, in that garage forecourt murder by a mob carrying steel bars and wooden posts in Kaunus. He had just painted a jolly picture of Kaunus pre-war where he claimed 40,000+ jews lived in a thriving community/society with dozens of synagogues and a jolly life for all. Then the nazis turned up and the killing began. He never asked why, or what the non jewish locals didn't like about the jews to make them suddenly and without any bad blood before make them slaughter the jews in that garage back yard. Odd.

This is standard when mentioning the attacks on Jews immediately following the retreat of the Soviets. No mention is ever made about what happened during the Soviet occupation. Just random unprovoked violence.