Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

I obtained a lot of information from the movie "Night and Fog". Most of the scenes are interesting. It gave me a feeling how the Jewish were maltreated those times. It made me feel I was a part of those agony they experienced.I felt sick the thought of the scenes. It showed colorful scenes of Auschwitz and the concentration camps that were used during WW II. I love how the graphics were presented.One scene that I would never forget was when the Allied Nations came into Germany and threw all the dead bodies of the Jews into large pits with the use of a bulldozer. I was equally shocked and scared because I saw how the condition of the camps were people had to live in, the beds that the Jews were given to sleep on seemed very rough and small. This movie showed one of the concentration camps a few years after WW II had ended, this camp seemed much more peaceful. I found it hard to believe that people had once been killed in this area, the area was mainly covered with plants and moss which made it seem more appealing and peaceful to me. The remains of the camps are still visible years after the war, like the poles that held up the fences are still standing and the rail roads where many Jews were thrown onto are still visible.

I think the movie is powerful that it was able to arouse interest in the viewers by using brutal, violent, and sad scenes. A combination of thiese aspects made the viewers feel that they were in the shoes of the Jews in the Holocaust.This movie was also very informative with its comparison of the two different settings, I felt like I was actually among the Jews watching their death and their terrible life style. One of the powerful scenes that I recall in this movie was when the Jews were in the trains being transported to the German death camp. This scene made me feel angry at the Nazis because they forced all these people to get onto one train and this caused people to die from diseases.

I found a few poweerful scenes in the "Night and Fog", but not as powerful as the "Schindler's List".This maybe due to the tremendous amount of information given to the audience in the Schindler's List.The former was a longer movie such that it was able to picture the details of the Holocaust, so people were able to grasp more meaningful understanding. "Shindler's List" contains more graphic scenes and it also had a few funny parts such as when some of the Jewish children hide in the toilets, this was powerful in the sense that it got my attention and showed me the harsh conditions the Jews had to go through to survive. The movie "Night and Fog" was based on the death camps during and after WW II, scenes from "Shindler's List" were also more powerful due to the fact that they showed many different settings and situations that the Jews were in. Generally, the Hollywood version of the Holocaust was able to show a clearer, more precise and almost real scenes that happened during the Holocaust than the documentary.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

Schindler did not see how the Jews worked hard for him, his main objective was money because he is a womanizer. He does not care for the people he employs, he only cares that they are hard workers and do not cost as much as hiring normal citizens.He did not care for their welfare and the condition of their living. Jews in concentration camps who were hardly treated humane. The workers were jammed in small carriages without water, made them sick or others even died in their trip.These are but just some of the brutal scenes.

One of the scenes which I consider most powerful was the brutal ways the Jews were killed, losing loved ones or loved ones being separated, their struggle for survival was unbearable. I think the movie was well done especially it's effect of black and white screens. My heart really breaks when the little girl in red jacket was able to escape death, but only to find out she came out a lifeless body and ready to be burned.How could these people take away the life of a helpless creature.This situation showed us that it was a whole hopeless case.

I think the what will really stay in my mind was that when Schindler cried before the Jews, I think he was moved by how the Jews submitted themselves for hard labor. This transformation was due to the fact that he interacts with thse people in his factory. While other people had not encountered Jews as much since the war broke out or had seen them in concentration camps where they were hardly human, Schindler had hundreds of Jews working for him. It was during the liquidation of the ghetto Schindler started to chane. Somehow he felt somekind of a guilt. Schindler’s had had some change of mind since then because of his pained expression as he saw Jews running and getting shot by the Nazis.

He saved thousands of Jews in exchange of being a traitor to Czekoslovakia, he revealed the military secrets to the Germans. This treacherous act led to the victory of the Germans.

US Atomic bombing in Japan in 1945

I think I would rank The discovery of antibiotic, penicillin to be #1 news story because it is a breakthrough in Science, specifically in the field of medicine. It would leave a lasting effect on people especially this medicine would be the best cure for infection or related illnesses.Prior to this discovery people died of infection but this discovery saved thousands of lives.

I would rank the discovery of DNA structure #2 because it is a very important unit of life. A modification of DNA would bring either destruction to life or modern genetic engineering so as to improve life, like cloning of crops or animals.This method would result higher and better quality yield in a shorter time. This discovery would also enlighten society why, how cancer takes place and its early detection would be able to combat this deadly disease.

I may rank Hiroshima atomic bombing as #3 because it highlighted the end of World War II. The war may have an effect for 2 or 3 generations, but it won't last forever, because its effect may die after generations when people's memory fails or fade.It may have an impact in ones immediate life.

Germany at War - WWII

Propaganda is an information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, or nation.

The Anti-Bolshevik poster says, "Europe's Victory is Your Prosperity". This Nazi propaganda poster expresses how this party under the rule of Hitler took control of Germany through forces. It further shows how Germany destroyed Great Britain.

As a result of this war, it left thousands dead as evident of the graveyard, depicted by Churchill. The anti-Bolshevik poster above proclaims that Germany has destroyed Great Britain and shows how the nailed fist of Germany is turning its attention to the east - threatening a knock-out blow for Stalin and the Soviet Union. The justification in the poster for the invasion of the USSR (in violation of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact) is security (baby in a cradle) and prosperity (living space for Germans).