On not forgetting: Auschwitz by drone.

I've been to Auschwitz. It is important to remember that while what one sees there is horrible enough, the most hellish part of the complex at Birkenau was demolished -- and these both were mere cogs in a much larger murderous enterprise.

The Holocaust now has slipped from active, living memory. That's why you should take the time to view the documentary film Shoah. When it was filmed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, it had been only four decades since war's end.

Lanzmann, Shoah, and a persistence of memory.

The drone clip is suitably chilling, It appeared at the BBC on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation. I decided to wait a few days to post it. A guy needs time to think.