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...paramilitary corps, the teenage Joseph saw no combat because of a badly infected finger. He never learned to fire a gun, and his weapons were never loaded -- even when he performed guard duty in a BMW plant. But there he saw laborers conscripted from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility to heal these people...
...principle behind a legal defense based on civil liberty is often illustrated by the famous lament of a Dachau prisoner: "They came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew." And so on, through the trade unionists and the Catholics, until, "Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak...
Criticism surrounds the film's claim that the Black 761st and 183rd Battalions helped liberate prisoners from the notorious Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps...
Epps also said he thought the two communities would be able to use the film "to retrieve the nature of these interactions" and cooperate as the Blacks and Jews did at the time of the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. There is "a lot to be shared" by the two communities, Epps said...
Paul Parks, who is Black, participated in the liberation of Dachau as a soldier and is now chair of the Boston School Committee, and Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel were also at the press conference...