This story definitely deserves a post on this blog. I read about 1/4 of it yesterday at Barnes and Noble, and went back with Yahni today and finished the rest of it. Reading it about it was definitely disturbing and depressing, but being able to see the emotions, hear the cries, and essentially have this really sad background music while watching the movie just made the story all the more emotional.
I'm not here to talk about the movie, though - more about the story or somewhat about the Holocaust in general. It definitely was one of the most extreme kind of racism within the last century (there have unfortunately, been many others as well but for some reason this is the only one America cares about). I'm not just basing my opinion on this movie in general, but I've read about other Holocaust situations and seen other related movies and documentaries. The Nazis may have had peer pressure amongst themselves which definitely led to further hatred for no particular reason. Even the Nazi officials knew that something wasn't right - their children couldn't be in the midst of all this terror and they saw how it was affecting their families. What I'm trying to say from this point is that sometimes if you can't make sense of something for children to understand, something is definitely wrong (bringing up the topic of the Connecticut shootings again).
Of course, there were "good" Nazis, too. There was actually a very high-ranking official by the name of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld who became fed up with how his fellow Nazis were treating the Jews and Poles, and helped as many as he could. After the war, he was brought to Soviet Russia where he was tried for war crimes. A number of Jews and Poles actually petitioned to free him. Unfortunately, though, he died during his 25-year sentence of hard labor.
I guess all this killing and hatred and racism will never do good for either sides of the gun, yet it still continues because for some reason history isn't enough to remind people of certain consequences..
... still odd how America had its own concentration camps for certain people as well... when you're the minority in a great country, you're never really safe. Not even in the infamous melting pot.
I'm not here to talk about the movie, though - more about the story or somewhat about the Holocaust in general. It definitely was one of the most extreme kind of racism within the last century (there have unfortunately, been many others as well but for some reason this is the only one America cares about). I'm not just basing my opinion on this movie in general, but I've read about other Holocaust situations and seen other related movies and documentaries. The Nazis may have had peer pressure amongst themselves which definitely led to further hatred for no particular reason. Even the Nazi officials knew that something wasn't right - their children couldn't be in the midst of all this terror and they saw how it was affecting their families. What I'm trying to say from this point is that sometimes if you can't make sense of something for children to understand, something is definitely wrong (bringing up the topic of the Connecticut shootings again).
Of course, there were "good" Nazis, too. There was actually a very high-ranking official by the name of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld who became fed up with how his fellow Nazis were treating the Jews and Poles, and helped as many as he could. After the war, he was brought to Soviet Russia where he was tried for war crimes. A number of Jews and Poles actually petitioned to free him. Unfortunately, though, he died during his 25-year sentence of hard labor.
I guess all this killing and hatred and racism will never do good for either sides of the gun, yet it still continues because for some reason history isn't enough to remind people of certain consequences..
... still odd how America had its own concentration camps for certain people as well... when you're the minority in a great country, you're never really safe. Not even in the infamous melting pot.
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