Genocide: Worse than War
Worse Than War documents Goldhagen’s travels, teachings, and interviews in nine countries around the world, bringing viewers on an unprecedented journey of insight and analysis.
With his first book, the #1 international bestseller Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Vintage, 1997) Daniel Jonah Goldhagen – then a professor of political science at Harvard University – forced the world to re-think some of its most deeply-held beliefs about the Holocaust.
Hitler’s Willing Executioners inspired an unprecedented worldwide discussion and debate about the role ordinary Germans played in the annihilation of Europe’s Jews.
A decade later – and more than half a century after the end of World War II – Goldhagen is convinced that the overall phenomenon of genocide is as poorly understood as the Holocaust had once been.
How and why do genocides start? Why do the perpetrators kill? Why has intervention rarely occurred in a timely manner? These and other thought-provoking questions are explored in a new documentary film, Worse Than War.
This is such a good documentary!
"United Nations" is a misleading name.
The "nations", ie the actual people, have no say there, and aren't represented there in any way.
It should be called "United Governments", as it's a place where members from various government gangs can socialize and demonstrate their power.
In China the Falun Gong prisoners are having their organs extracted by their Gov (who openly admits this) while they are still alive and fully conscious & the UN does nothing. their organs are being sold worldwide at the highest $. North Korea is living hell for it's people, most people are aware of that situation, but nothing is being done. Africa is supposed to be 25% remaining population remaining population 10 years from 2 years ago w/o lifting a finger. The UN is corrupt and we need out of the UN and the UN out of the US. They set these people up, offer them refuge, and withdraw which ensures their death, while claiming to be peacekeepers? Any time you turn your back on human rights violations, you endanger yourself and the greater the population of people on this planet, the less value given to each life of each of it's members.
I can't believe some people actually deny the Holocaust! We are now on the verge of something big, God Bless!
I was though that I'm going to see a list "balanced" docs, but... So empty. Tallking about preventing genocid by calculate with a wictims and support a people who lied about and make it every day? So empty, so pure, sa bad and such a westing time by watch it...
The world seems to forget that in 1919, the Germans transported Lenin from Switzerland to Russia; thereby causing the Russian Revolution and the Japanese demolished Chinese Society from 1925 to 1945, thereby causing the Communist takeover in 1949. These two historical disasters were caused by Fascist Militaristsic Dictatorships. The world has not recovered yet. I seldom hear any apologies from Germans or Japanese.
all military weapons are weapons of mass destuction,why else would a gun be made to give off 50 or more rounds at a time,think.
I say despite everyday’s personal opinion about this documentary, we should all be conscious about our world community. I am originally from Ethiopia though I have not experience extreme level of war or genocide I know what hatred and bias can do to people and to a country. We should be mindful and try to educate our self. And not say all “Jew” are bad not all “Palestine” are evil not all “Muslims” are terrorist and most Definitely Africans are human not some kind of animals who live in poverty and kill one another like animals.
Is this ******* is an american? Millions of native indian americans were killed and still going on? Obviously he cann't see what's happening in their own backyard.
If not, check out Norman Finkelstein's "The American Radical"...
I wonder if Daniel Goldhagen would ever say something about Gaza Strip...
I like how he says an independent body of 'democratic nations' he forgets Hitler was voted in by a 'democratic' nation.
I think this scholar is very naive about military intervention and how wrong it can go. Dropping bombs is fine but what if the targets uses towns and people as human shields? What if you become imbedded in someone else's war and they begin to attack you with a growing insurgency? Foreign troops are often seen as 'occupiers'. There are lot's of circumstances where military intervention would not be an easy solution.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Muslims would kill all the Jews they could find and would do the same to westerners next. This would be genocide. I KNOW they would if given the opportunity.
Thought provoking and intersting film. However, one glaring ommission in the list of genocide perpetrators and victims: the three million vietnamese civilians killed by America in the 1960s and 70s along with a million more Cambodians and Laotians. A very telling ommission.
Its a pretty good documentary. Its conclusions come too fast. We need to look at how we are committed to things so similar. What is our policy in the middle east? Why use radio active weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt? Can the measure we use against others be used against us? Where does our governments really stand when it comes to new governments gaining economic freedom within the middle east?
The measure we use on others will be used more exactingly against us. The untold story of our military targeting schools and hospitals, clean water, and sewage treatments to cause disease and death.
I am not sure our military isn't simply interested in the complete elimination of the middle east.
It is sad that men still need documentaries to know genocide is wrong. even guys here are debating about it. reading these comments i see guys justifying them. you dont need to know the story behind genocides to know it is wrong; it is shameful; it is evil. who ever commits them has no honor and so too are those who could stop them but chose to do nothing and those who hesitated.. no reasoning in the world is enough to justify even the "hesitation" in beliving that genocide is evil and must be stop whoever or where ever it is being commited.
this documentary is not about who did this or how it was done or who is right or who is the victim. this is about those who doing nothing to stop it. this is about us.
have we lost our common sense for what is right? have our eyes gone so blurred that we have to blame whole people for the wrongs of few? or to blame the grand children of those who did you wrong? we're pathetic.
if we think that mass execution could be justified then god help our souls, we are the embarrasment of the entire human race. we stand for hatred and evil.
there will be future genocides because of us.
Is Goldhagen naive or deliberately stupid?
this is just like his book. shocking story piled upon shocking story..
Hitler's Willing Executioners was unreadable bc it was so over the top with graphic descriptions of horrific death scenes. After a while one gets the the same sense as when watching The Passion of the Christ. it becomes
this documentary is complete ludacris, I give PBS props for an expensive, fancy doc made up of wiki and google searches used as FACT. First off, this is a Jew talking to Bosnians who just happened to do a little genocide of their own to the small jewish population of Bosna I Herzegovina during the 90's, and treating what they say as fact? From one sides prespective? this is Fact? Has anyone ever had proof of all these mass graves reported? Bosnia commited more genocide on their own people than any Serb ever did. Today its even fact that they bombed the fruit market full of muslims in Sarajevo, that CNN falsley reported as Serb artillery. Some other FACTS about the Balkan Wars, in the famous story of Serb concentration camps, it was found out that some bosnians where talking to some reporters while the reporters where on the other side of a barbed wire fence, and then reported the story as a concentration camp. Another one, is the hospital attack I believe that was in Dubrovnik, where Serb forces recieved fire from a hospital where croation soldeirs where firing from, so they returned fire and the news reported that Serbs where "attacking civilians in a hospital". These types of docs, american media, and the American New World Order, are literally shaping peoples minds into what they want, lies in this country are turned into history. this is why americans across the world are precieved as dumb barbarians. It all has to do with their own system destroying them from the inside, starting with their minds. Has any American heard on the news about the 450 churches and monestaries destroyed in Kosovo i Metohija? Has the news told you that since 1998 the Kosovo Liberation Army was killing Serbs for human organ trafficking? And have they told you since America gave Kosovo its independence and control of the country to former terrorists, as labeled by the CIA in 1998 with ties to Al-Qeada, that Kosovo has transported 85% of the worlds heroin from Afganistan and Turkey into Europe and the U.S.? Didnt think so. Sorry about the out burst guys but I love history I love politics, but now im watching America going into Egypt and Libya and wonder, If they really did care about human life and genocide and this wasnt all politics, why havent they gone into Darfur yet and "KICK SOME ASS"? Because like an old Serbian Vojvoda told me, when america came to the table for Kosovo they asked who can give them what, we(serbs) told them they could open up an army base on one of our old bases, Muslim albanians said they could give them a copper mine, one of the biggest in Europe and Kosovo, land for a Military base, and free pass through kosovo so they could use it for a pit stop to the middle east. when the deal was all done, the albanians had a figure that benifited america in the cents, not even dollars. both parties shook hands and NATO and American forces began bombing the next morning, 3/24/99, my birthday, for 74 straight days. The vojvoda then proceeded to say, You see Petar, Its about pennies on the dollar, as long as their in the plus, someone is going to be in the minus, us.
Did you happen to forget the atrocities during the genocide of the American Indians? Our ancestors slaughtered men, women and children in the worst ways possible. Look at our own mistakes before being able to understand and solve others.
Why does he classify those under Stalin and Mao as victims of genocide? Those were political executions, not an execution of a race. My understanding of genocide was that it was a mass extermination or attempt to exterminate a racial or ethnic group, not political dissenters.
The most striking example of brainwashing on a personal basis was when I met my Father's (Hungarian, Jewish lineage but individualistic, independent and brutally honest) first cousin. An incisively intelligent, multi-lingual psychiatrist. He was deeply compassionate and responsible for spearheading enquiry and closure to the Stalinist 'dissident' psycho-torture clinics in the '70s. He also had an open house for refugees of all nations whilst raising his own family and continued to do so when I became close to him briefly in 2005 after my father's death.
However, he was an avowed Zionist and had performed with pride many circumcisions; defending the merits of this awful practice on the basis that it had 'done him no harm' (as if he coud remember) and increased libido and sexual pleasure (as if he knew the difference if not circumcised).
He had visited Israel many times and totally upheld the PR screened experience, unaware of the realities.
We argued, of course and he was particularly upset about my smoking; failing to recognise the relative harmlessness of such a trivial and private pursuit.
It stunned me that even he with all his warm humanity had been brainwashed beyond reason. I don't know what became of him after his Alzheimer's took its toll but remained fond of him, if somewhat nonplussed.
My father was different and had no truck with the jew-doctrine being closest to the Quaker religion, if any and a deeply compassionate animal lover. His brief relationship with my Irish mother produced me and his family had sought to abort me in the womb at eight months. His parents and grandparents did not leave Eastern Europe when they could have and perished. He was ferried through the rat lines into a convent and went to live a life of 'poor relative' at his cousin's house in Surrey, his inheritance lost with his parents at aged 12 speaking no English. This formed his character to be on the side of the underdog with a fondness for the Irish. He was not brainwashed and his pain, isolation, social awkwardness and loss made him a unique force who didn't much care for other's approval. I met him when I was 17 and realised that I was indeed, my father's daughter with the delightful addition of the Irish poetic, artistic and ridiculous sense of humour from my mother's side.
I feel there is some credence to the notion that when a child is circumcised, the utter shock and horror cuts off forever, the higher heart/mind spiritual connection, imprinting a deep inner distrust of others. In addition, any residue of the greater realms from which we come vanishes and the jewish children are indoctrinated into the here and now of materialism is all there is in this one life, there is nothing beyond when we die.
My father's cousin feared death and I hope he discovered the truth that I imparted; we live on to face and review our actions on Earth and are held accountable by our very own souls. Such awareness surely means that we live our lives from profound truths, slightly alluded to within the biblical and other texts, distorted through a huge lense of disinformation.
Ther is no good (only a god) within the Talmud as the actions of these Zionist Khazarians demonstrate having been damaged through barbaric customs from birth. No chance to dance with the stars, no unity, harmony or co-creative co-existance. Damaged goods worshipping a damaged 'god'.
These damaged 'gods' of the insane Elites are up for exposure anytime soon, as their 'habits' are ripped off allowing sunlight to shine on their impotent shrivelled old balls!
Yes, ShemIte, Semite refers to the language used by natives of that Middle Eastern locale. As the imposters use Yiddish, of Germanic origin (Khazarian) it is a dead giveaway that they are not originating from the Dead Sea regions. Semites are Arabic. Are they also the tribe of Shem? The imposters wrote the lineage of their takeover in the OT Bible. So 'anti-Semite' would translate as 'being antithical to the the Semitic language or people of that language. These are the Palastinian Arabs and we are not antithical to them or their language at all.
"Abraham's son" doesn't understand the DEPTH of what BRAINWASHING can and does do to those on whom it is perpetrated. My Father, rest his soul, was the most-honset man I have even known. Yet he WAS "brainwashed" while he was in the "Army/air-force." That's what they called it back then. All he "knew" was 'get-up, go to work, go home, eat and go to bed. Get-up, go to work, go home, eat and go to bed. Get-up, go to work...." understand? That was ALL.... he KNEW to do. He never attended church, yet he was infinitely more honest, than ANY Christian, Jewish, or Muslim preacher ON THE PLANET. Religions, were INVENTED by-the-Elite, to keep the poor, from chopping their FKG heads off! "Divide and conquer." Religion SHOULD UNITE, yet all it does is SEPARATE!