In his foreword to The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer called “the capture of most of the confidential archives of the German government and all its branches” at the end of World War II “an event unique in history.” The Nazis meticulously documented their efforts to accomplish “the Final Solution” with Germanic thoroughness, yet they sought to shield them from public view. They wanted to keep them secret.

On Monday this week the IDF screened some 43 minutes of scenes of murder, torture, and decapitation from Hamas’s October 7 invasion of southern Israel. Drawing on raw videos from the terrorists’ bodycams, the IDF screened the footage for members of the press subject to a prohibition on recording. The screening brings Shirer’s comments to mind this morning. Hamas too sought to document its efforts to exterminate the Jewish people.

Hamas is a little more frank about the project than the Nazis. Hamas proclaims the mission in its charter. Yet the IDF finds the screening necessary “to dispel what a spokesperson characterized as ‘a Holocaust-denial-like phenomenon happening in real-time,” as doubts have been raised around the world about some of the most horrific of Hamas’s atrocities” (I’m quoting from the Times of Israel story linked immediately below). “Why does a person take a GoPro [to such an attack]?” an IDF spokesman commented. He answered his own question: “Because he’s proud of what he does.”

The Times of Israel reports on the screening in “IDF shows foreign press Hamas bodycam videos, photos of murder, torture, decapitation”. Please check it out. The New York Post also covers it in “IDF shares harrowing videos, photos of Hamas attack.”

The bloodlust is patent. This is what the Nazis in our midst march and riot to support.

Times of Israel reporter Amy Spiro has posted the video below on X/Twitter.

Spiro added this to fill in what is missing.