Anybody watching this?  I have and it's pretty good although I would
say it doesn't seem THAT much better than many other documentaries
I've seen.  It also jumps around a lot which is annoying, but maybe on
DVD would be better.  That having been said, it's DEFINITELY worth
watching.

One great thing about it is all of the associated stories that it
brings out.  One such story is that of Vernon Tott, an 84th infantry
member who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and who liberated the
Ahlem Concentration Camp.

He happened to have his camera with him and snapped some photos, but
buried them away after the war.  And then ...

"Then, in his army newsletter in 1995, Tott spotted an inquiry from
Sieradzki, a retired engineer in Berkeley, Calif. Sieradzki was
searching for whoever took photographs of himself and other prisoners
when Ahlem was liberated.

Tott went into his basement and found his old shoebox. He called
Sieradzki, who remembers, "The telephone rang. 'My name is Vernon Tott
and I think you're looking for me.' And I said, 'Are you still a tall
blonde fellow?' And he said, 'Not any longer.'"

The two men talked many times that day. Tott made copies of his
black-and-white snapshots and sent them to Sieradzki. In one of the
photos, Sieradzki saw dead bodies piled on the ground in front of some
barracks. In the foreground, was a huddle of skeletal prisoners. On
the extreme left he saw himself. "

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14661020

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