Look, here, let me make a couple points on this thread that has gone on for way too long anyway.
Point 1: There is a line of common decency past which the immorality of showing a certain image offsets the usefulness of the intended message, no matter how true or worthy the message itself.
Showing helpless ladies, being lead to the slaughterhouse under the violating look of a male Nazi soldier, forcibly naked (and thus stripped of their dignity even in death) more than surpasses this line - and it really boggles my mind how anybody with an iota of conscience or sensibility cannot see this in all its macroscopic truth.
Point 2: To suggest that someone like Italiano, whose very family (note, not "race", or "people", but "family") was decimated by Nazis, does not have the right to express a sentiment of outrage at the political use of such a sacred image, is arrogant and wrong.
What if that last lady in the picture, almost struggling to keep up with the grim line, helpless in her nakedness and desperate, truly desperate in her last loveless moments was your grandmother/aunt/wife/mother? Do you realize the absurdity of what you are saying? Would you feel comfortable using that image to prove a political point?
I will say no more about this, but for God's sake, there are some images that are too sacred, intimate and tragic to be used for any purposes.
Those ladies have suffered way more than any of us ever will. To replay their last tragic violation as a means to any goal is immoral before any objective tribunal of decent humanity.
Point 1: There is a line of common decency past which the immorality of showing a certain image offsets the usefulness of the intended message, no matter how true or worthy the message itself.
Showing helpless ladies, being lead to the slaughterhouse under the violating look of a male Nazi soldier, forcibly naked (and thus stripped of their dignity even in death) more than surpasses this line - and it really boggles my mind how anybody with an iota of conscience or sensibility cannot see this in all its macroscopic truth.
Point 2: To suggest that someone like Italiano, whose very family (note, not "race", or "people", but "family") was decimated by Nazis, does not have the right to express a sentiment of outrage at the political use of such a sacred image, is arrogant and wrong.
What if that last lady in the picture, almost struggling to keep up with the grim line, helpless in her nakedness and desperate, truly desperate in her last loveless moments was your grandmother/aunt/wife/mother? Do you realize the absurdity of what you are saying? Would you feel comfortable using that image to prove a political point?
I will say no more about this, but for God's sake, there are some images that are too sacred, intimate and tragic to be used for any purposes.
Those ladies have suffered way more than any of us ever will. To replay their last tragic violation as a means to any goal is immoral before any objective tribunal of decent humanity.