Did anyone watch this programme on the BBC re; Jerry Springer.

My gosh I have had the tissues out. How :( as to Jerry's family were treated & 6 million other Jewish people just because they were Jewish, how very :(

Did anyone else watch the programme.

Did anyone watch this programme on the BBC re; Jerry Springer.

My gosh I have had the tissues out. How :( as to Jerry's family were treated & 6 million other Jewish people just because they were Jewish, how very :(

Did anyone else watch the programme.
I just watched it this afternoon on iplayer.

I didn't see much that I didn't know already, but, I didn't know about the van gassing, as early experiments for the chambers. That was horrific. (as if the chambers weren't already)

Like he said, it's quite hard to believe that these events were so recent.

Try watching "Shoah", it's the ultimate holocaust documentary. It's all done with interviews of survivors of both sides (plus those inbetween) and visits to the sites of various atrocities. That's where I first learnt of the execution vans that killed by carbon monoxide from the exhaust.

As I recall it doesn't have any historical footage, or very little.

It's 9 hours long and totally watchable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_(film)

As a programme I didn't think it was as successful as the Boris Johnson one simply because there wasn't very much genealogy in it. It was of course very tragic personal history, but he knew it was going to be from the start.

I do know the history regarding the holocaust but I felt so sorry for Jerry & many others whose families had to suffer & over what because they were Jewish? So what! The people who did it Hitler, the soldiers, the doctors, the nurses evil evil people. To harm innocent human beings & take away their dignity, their human rights. It was not fair at all.

Alastair, thankyou for the link.

Mr Springer I salute you :thumbsup:

We were discussing this tonight and wondered to what extent TV researchers did lots of work beforehand to make sure there was an interesting tale to tell and how many prospective programmes were left on the cutting room floor after someone's relative proved to be ....normal...and died of old age

Anyone watch last night's with Aynsley Harriott? It was interesting to see him vent his spleen on a plaque commemorating someone who had owned one of his distant ancestors as a slave... only to find out later on that one of his other ancestors had been a white slave-master himself.

Anyone watch last night's with Aynsley Harriott? It was interesting to see him vent his spleen on a plaque commemorating someone who had owned one of his distant ancestors as a slave... only to find out later on that one of his other ancestors had been a white slave-master himself.

Oh I know....will update later :)

I really like this series, and I thought last night's was very interesting - from the point of view that if we all went back to our ancestry we could be in for some surprises. :o

He certainly wasn't proud to be a descendent of a slavemaster, and I agreed with his sentiments about the memorial in the church. Would any of us really wish to be remembered for owning other people? Quite horrifying to think that those young female slaves were being impregnated by the overseers - for a bonus. :gag: