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Post by carol on May 29, 2023 21:05:54 GMT -5
Watching the episode The Unthinkable the other day with Ted Lapinsky telling about his grandfather dying in Auschwitz and the family like everyone else at that time not wanting to believe those things were happening. I think it would have made a good follow up story to have John Boy in his role as a war corrospondant witness and write about the liberation of Auschwitz or another concentration camp and even cover the Nuremburg Trials later on. The family thinks of Ted when they read or listen to his account of what he saw and they realize that he was right about his grandfather.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on May 31, 2023 20:34:34 GMT -5
Was John Boy MIA at this point?
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Post by carol on Jun 2, 2023 23:31:04 GMT -5
Was John Boy MIA at this point? I'm not sure. Even if he was he went back overseas once he recovered before the war ended. |
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Post by Easton on Jun 3, 2023 18:09:48 GMT -5
The Nuremberg trials took place from Nov. 20, 1945 to Oct. 1, 1946. John-Boy was working for the Stars and Stripes so he may have been assigned to cover the trials. However. since the trials ended after the show ended, it's not likely they would have tackled such a storyline.
And there was a problem with the extermination camps as well. The Germans left no evidence or records of the death camps whatsoever. Bodies were buried in mass graves and covered over with machinery. When it became evident to Hitler that he was losing the war, he ordered all the bodies exhumed and incinerated. Since the death camps were promoted as work camps, there was no evidence that they were anything other than that. It was a very long time before they were proved to be otherwise.
Just think of all the people today who are convinced that the Holocaust never happened.
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Jun 3, 2023 19:25:41 GMT -5
The Nuremberg trials took place from Nov. 20, 1945 to Oct. 1, 1946. John-Boy was working for the Stars and Stripes so he may have been assigned to cover the trials. However. since the trials ended after the show ended, it's not likely they would have tackled such a storyline.
And there was a problem with the extermination camps as well. The Germans left no evidence or records of the death camps whatsoever. Bodies were buried in mass graves and covered over with machinery. When it became evident to Hitler that he was losing the war, he ordered all the bodies exhumed and incinerated. Since the death camps were promoted as work camps, there was no evidence that they were anything other than that. It was a very long time before they were proved to be otherwise.
Just think of all the people today who are convinced that the Holocaust never happened.
Hitler truly was evil. |
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