Juergen Corleis

Juergen Corleis

A must read contributionn on contemporary history. Juergen Corleis (1929 - 2011) was an acclaimed journalist and documantary film maker. Corleis has also been a press photographer and a foreign correspondent for radio and print media. His acclaimed documentary on the horrors of the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen is still shown at the information centre at the camp and has been seen by millions. In his autobiography he reports on his work from Hitler to Howard's end. "Where better to hide a young German teenager with Jewish heritage from the Nazis during the war than inside a Nazi school? " "My point of view is: believing in the superiority of your own race, religion, ideology or way of life allows you to treat others inhumanely. I never accepted that the Germans were the master race, or the United States God's own country, or the Jews the chosen people. "What we observe today is the widespread acceptance of discrimination"