"A Film Unfinished" - Levi Thurman

In the film I learned that Nazis used many different approaches in the attack on the Jewish people. They used propaganda to convince the German people persecuting the Jews was the right thing to do. The Nazis also used ghettos as a way to starve and demoralize the Jews. They also made staged films to show how well the Jewish people were living. The films showed the Jews wearing fancy clothing, eating expensive food, and living in luxurious houses. The films also showed the rich Jewish people ignoring the poor Jewish people as if they only cared about themselves. The Jewish funerals were also staged; funerals were made to look much more luxurious than they actually were. The ghettos were used by the Nazis to consolidate the Jews in one place, starve them, and demoralize them. The Warsaw ghetto in the film had approximately one and a half million Jewish people living in it. The conditions were very overcrowded. There were often cases when several families lived in the same house. One whole family would live in a bedroom while another family would live the living room. Food was also scarce in the ghettos. Almost everyone in the film appeared to be malnourished. Many people died from starvation; the bodies were often left on the street for several days. The bodies were hauled off in hand – pushed carts and eventually buried in mass graves. The bodies would often accumulate, so they were left piled up until there was time to bury them. The people that were fortunate enough to avoid starvation became so accustomed to corpses lying everywhere they seemed to grow immune from them. They were living in such terrible conditions that they started to lose what it meant to be human. The sympathy that all human beings have was being taken away from them by the Nazis.