Engineering Evil is a History Channel special which examines in great detail the process in which the Nazis carries out the Holocaust. However, this film is unique in its approach as it does not focus solely on the engineering / industrial side but rather the human engineering which took place. It was this engineering which allowed such an atrocity to occur in the first place.
The Nazi’s required the people to be willing to look the other way and sometimes even participate in this crime. We learn of how they started achieving this reality even before their military expansion began. The concept was to remove Jews from jobs in education, medicine and other fields by making them seem inferior through propaganda. One such piece of propaganda was a board game called “Jews Out”, labeled as family-friendly the aim was to round up as many Jews as possible for deportation.
As the film moves forward it aggressively questions the “just following orders” defense and the thought that the German were not at fault for the Holocaust. We see how the Nazis were also dependant upon not only themselves but non-Nazis to aid in building the infrastructure of trains, gas chambers and ovens, each step of the way issues were tackled in a calculated problem-solving manner.
The Holocaust was unfair
How can people be so rude
Let’s just say that evil is most of the time done in the name of something, common examples are:
-God -for the greater good -for public interest – for the people, nation
-society – for the common good -for the “life” in heaven et cetera lol…..
So, it is not just any particular country, this gimmick has been going on for centuries!!! And it is based on the altruist morality with the ultimate ideal of zero which is death!!! That it is right for the good to give up, to suffer, to sacrifice and to die and all in the name of something!!! It has been practiced all over the world for centuries and nazi germany and axis japan and the soviet union were all just ab example of that age old gimmick in its pure manifestation!!!
Excellent documentary, I’m very glad to see it. I’ve noticed that the holocaust denial websites have been active lately, so it’s an excellent time for this documentation. When I originally learned of the camps years ago it was so hard to believe, but then I did the research when there were many narratives and memoirs that emerged from family members that attested to the truthfulness of it. Now it’s as if no one reads memoirs but instead they pick up sound bites……