When I was a kid, I saw some of the first pictures of Nazi extermination camps. Truthfully, this world is different for me for having seen them. Even as a kid who thought that cleavage was "holy wow" and Playboy the greatest thing since sliced bread, I could never look at the faces of naked women in some of those pictures and conceive of their breasts as sexualy stimulating objects. That is beyond any sickness I could imagine. So I have to wonder about anyone who feels morals and young minds will be corrupted by leaving the footage where it is. It's difficult to concentrate on tits when you have your head in a toilet bowl, puking because the vivid photographs of twisted, gassed bodies carelessly thrown into hastily dug trenches seems to address the darkest recesses of the human soul. I remember throwing up and wondering how this could have happened. And why it could have happened, and crying because the God I'd been told about had not only deserted his chosen people but had also deserted the rest of humanity, too.

Extreme censorship would not allow any of the documentary on television. So maybe people can be thankful that it will be shown at all. And maybe the horrors of that time--horrors that have been repaeted since in the killing fields of Cambodia and Uganda under Amin and Chile under Pinochet and Argentina under the junta and, and and--well, maybe our kids can learn something from that, and maybe that will help it never happen again. Maybe.