A film unfinished really showed how evil humans can be. It was very disturbing how the Germans treated these people. It’s shocking how mean people can be and that no one did anything to stop these things. I’m sure most of the Germans knew what they were doing wasn’t right, but they didn’t fight their orders. Seeing small children with legs of flesh and bones was very depressing. Kids should be able to play and have fun, not worry if they’ll ever eat again. It made me very mad when the film showed guards stopping kids from smuggling food back to their starving families. If these guards knew the situation in the ghettos they should have pretended not to notice the food in their clothes. Another thing that really made me mad is that they made the Jews stage a fake funeral while they had corpses all over the streets. They tried to make it look like things were ok for the Jews and that they were heartless by showing them not look at corpses while they walked passed them. Of course they couldn’t look at the dead bodies of these people. They had to keep hoping that they had a chance to survive which is hard to do looking at the dead body of someone you may have known and have things in common with. It showed scenes of nicer looking more well fed Jews next to starving raggedy looking Jews. You can tell the nicer looking one was told to look like a snob towards the raggedy one, but you could see in her eyes that she understood her and didn’t blame her for looking how she did. It makes me sick that people can do this kind of thing to other people and I hope nothing like this ever happens again.
6 comments:
if the gaurds were to pretend to not see the children smuggling food, the gaurds would be termintated.
Very true.These children had no true 'life'.Children today,not all,but most,have the chance to play with trucks and baby dolls.That never happened for the children of the Holocaust.
I totally agree with your response. However, I think the guards were strong anti-Semites which is why they did nothing or in this case prevented the child from eating.
I am very sensitive when it comes to children and in this film it really hurt me to see these children in pain and in hunger. I liked the points you made.
As was said in the Nurembourg trials, "I was just following orders." For soldiers, this means, "I am not to blame, my superior is." So for people who weren't anti-Semetic, they still felt like their was no blame on them because they were just following orders but if you asked an officer, they'd tell you it wasn't their fault either, "I'm just giving order." The world can be an empty place and for people who live through human made catastrophes like this, while we can't go back and fix what occurred, we can look ahead with our heads held high, studying every aspect of these truly evil people, so that we may prevent the next genocide to come
I'm sorry have you not seen footage of how things really are in third world countries, even today? While we may not be rounding up people and placing them in barricaded cities or concentration camps, there are those that suffer like the Jews around the globe. The human race is not as pretty as the media depicts it now. Media is propaganda.
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