BBC Documentary on Hitler Barely Mentions the Holocaust

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Just when you thought the BBC can’t get any worse on the subject of Jews, it proves you horribly wrong. It has just made a documentary on Hitler for high school students that makes only a handful of glancing references to the murder of six million Jews. Quite a feat. There is more about it here.

The BBC has sparked fury after penning a “pathetic” biography of Adolf Hitler, which fails to address the Holocaust.

Key events and figures from the dictator’s regime were excluded from the broadcaster’s narrative of Adolf Hitler: From Childhood to Dictator, which was designed as a learning resource for GCSE pupils.

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The short biography attempts to draw a comprehensive timeline of events of the Nazi’s life, from birth, to the rise of the Nazis, to his rule over Germany until his death – but appears to omit a number of atrocities committed against the Jews.

As a result, the corporation has been urged to revise the “woefully inadequate” resource, stressing that combatting antisemitism begins at school….

The document stresses the Austrian “was not born a brutal tyrant”, urging readers to “explore Hitler’s life and discover the road that led to destruction”.

The biography also excludes any mention of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the night the Nazis ordered violent riots against European Jews.

Kristallnacht is of great historical importance as the first nationwide assault by the Nazis on Jews, synagogues, and Jewish-owned shops. That it is not mentioned in this BBC documentary is enough to disqualify it from being a piece of serious history.

Overnight, the SS, the SA and Hitler Youth destroyed around 1,400 synagogues and prayer rooms, murdering 100 Jews as rioters smashed windows of around 7,500 Jewish-owned stores.

The police and SS arrested roughly 30,000 Jewish men, deporting them to concentration camps such as Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.

But the BBC Bitesize depiction of Hitler’s life opted to sweep over the night altogether.

“It [the one-page guide meant to accompany the documentary] adds: “Hitler characterised the [Nuremberg anti-Jewish] laws as an effort to ‘achieve the legislative regulation of a problem which, if it breaks down again, will then have to be transferred by law to the National Socialist Party for final solution.”

Will the students have any idea what is meant? What will they think was the “final solution”? The documentary does not say. It uses Hitler’s own words, that sound so innocuous — the “legislative regulation of a problem” — to describe what was to become the murder of six million Jews.

The document says that the Nazis “tried” to exclude Jews and other groups from public life since 1933, when the Nuremberg Laws were in place….

“Tried” to exclude Jews since 1933? No, the Nazi regime did exclude Jews very thoroughly from the professions, beginning with its firing thousands of Jewish professors from the universities and civil service positions after the passage of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on April 7, 1933. And from then on, the Nazi regime initiated a massive and systematic purge. By the fall of 1933, roughly 15% of all German university teachers had lost their jobs due to Nazi racial and political laws.

A BBC spokesman claimed the timeline of Hitler’s life was not a biography – despite the 2,400 documents appearing to cover events from the failed artist’s childhood, adolescence and military career up until his death.

They added: “It is a single page, which includes reference to the horror of the Holocaust, and is designed for teachers to be used alongside extensive materials covering the Second World War, Hitler’s rise to power and a range of resources on the Holocaust.”

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Yes, there is a “reference” to the “horror of the Holocaust” in this biography of Hitler. And there are five fleeting mentions of Jews. But there is no attempt to convey the scope and the scale of the atrocities that Hitler unleashed against the Jews, no mention of the main architects of the Final Solution, no mention of Kristallnacht, no mention of the Wannsee Conference, no discussion of how the extermination camps worked, of how the “selections” were made, of how the gas vans were used to mass murder Jews on the Eastern Front, no mention of Kurt Lueger, who was mayor of Vienna when Hitler lived there as a young man and first implanted antisemitic ideas in young Adolf’s head, no mention of the virulently antisemitic Der Stürmer, that served as a central instrument of Nazi antisemitic propaganda.

Who was it at the BBC who thought all that could be left out of a biography of Hitler? Who at the BBC said words to the effect that “let’s not do that whole Holocaust shtick again, everyone is sick of it”?

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