Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

The movie Night and Fog really made me open my eyes. It displayed the brutal acts of the nazi's and I found it fairly disturbing. I think it was a pretty powerful film. It would've been better if the film maker set the mood a little better. He was constantly playing "happy" music while showing pictures of decapitated jews. This movie displayed the holocaust almost just aswell as Schindler's List did. Schindler's List may have been filmed using actors, but it still depicted what actually happened at the holocaust. Night and Fog showed the aftermath of the killings that took place. Both were very powerful films that showed the "before" and "after" effects of the holocaust. I'd have to say that Schindler's List depicted the holocaust better. Night and Fog only showed the after effects of everything, Shindler's List tried to show exactly what happened at the holocaust and just how ruthless the nazi's were.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

Schindler's List showed just how ruthless the nazi people were. They packed hundreds of jews onto train cars, they destroyed all the jewish people's belongings, and took the children away from there parents. It depicted the cruel acts that people can do. Burning of bodies, killing people for absolutely no reason what so ever. The most powerful scene for me, probably isn't the most signficant. It was when the female jewish engineer went up to the nazi generals to tell them that the foundation needed additional work, or something along those lines. Instead of taking her word and possibly rewarding her, the leading general tells one of his soilders to shoot her. Then when she's kneeling down with the soilder behind her, she utters the words "It'll take more than this to stop me". The soilder, without hesitating simply cocks his gun and shoots while replying, "I'm sure it will". The ability to simply shoot someone without showing any remorse or sympathy is just unimaginable.

There was a bunch of scenes from the movie that will probably stay with me. When Schindler was giving the jewish people on the train extra water, the generals told him, "that's cruel Oscar, giving them hope". It just doesn't make sense how someone can have the ability to show that much hate towards a single race of people. All the shooting scenes leave a lasting impression aswell. Especially the scene when the jewish boy made a run for it, and when the soilder raised his gun, the dad jumped in front and pushed the gun down screaming for his sons life. The soilder simply turned and shot the man without thinking. Then when the other soilders brought back his son, he didn't even wait for them to bring him closer, he shot him from a good 20 feet away.

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

I'd have to aggree that the bombing of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the biggest event of the 20th century. The sheer magnitude of the bombings make them unsurpassable on the list of 100 top events. The dropping of the bombs not only killed well over 300 thousand people over a 10 year span, but the bombs also signified a major land mark in world history. It was the first time that nuclear warfare took place. People have attempted genecide before, there's been hundreds of wars, hundreds of thousands of people have been assassinated, but nothing has, and possibly ever will, ammount of the uneasy feeling the atomicc bombs created. On the list of 100 biggest events, I'd probably only move the Treaty of Versailles higher on the list since it started the initial domino effect that created the holocaust, world war 2, and the atomic bombings of Japan.

Germany at War - WWII

Propaganda is the deliberate spread of rumors to harm a certain group of people. In the poster, it shows Europe with various symbolic messages. It shows England looking as if it's a graveyard with Winston Churchill's tombstone standing in it, trying to say that England fell to the German forces. The country of Germany(which looks rather large by that posters color scheme) with a cradle symbolizing security and, what looks like land, symbolizing the land that the German people have or desire. The fist wearing chain mail armor looks as if it's delivering a blow to the face of Joseph Stalin, symbolizing the inevitible downfall of the Soviet Union. This poster is clearly showing the cocky attitude of Germany.