A Film Unfinished

Jason Florez
Larry Neuburger
Comp 102 10/1/11
A Film Unfinished
The way Jews were treated during this time was horrible. Many of them starved to death, others from sickness because they couldn’t afford medical attention. Germans would beat them for unjustified reasons and sometimes just because the person was Jewish. One woman said, “People would throw garbage out their windows because they were too weak to go downstairs.” This really portrays how poor, sick and weak these people were. They didn’t even have enough strength to take their trash out, so there would be piles and piles of trash everywhere outside people’s windows. The woman spoke of other instances, “My mother would send me to the Warsaw Municipal garbage dump, and when I returned home I saw how they were eating what I had brought.” This little girl was going to a garbage dump to pick out trash to bring back to her family because they had nothing else. Her family would eat the old trash that she would rummage through and pick out. This is an excellent depiction of how little Jewish people had. They were forced to live off the leftovers of the people in classes above them. In one scene some German Policemen were pulling all kinds of vegetables and fruits out from under the clothes of Jewish children. The children were attempting to smuggle food in to their starving families. Some of the children caught were taken out and shot and killed.
The way the film staged the scenes with the wealthy Jews and made it look like they were treated like royalty is not surprising. Germans knew that what was happening in Germany would eventually reach the interest of the rest of the world and they anticipated the reaction of those people which is why they made this film. They wanted evidence that Jews were treated not just as well as Germans, but better. It’s a brilliant scheme. It seems there were many secrets even within the German government which is one of the reasons why it fell apart and was eventually taken over. But no punishment would make up for the damage and pain unjustly inflicted on the Jews.