Resonse to "A Film Unfinished"

Response to “A Film Unfinished”
This film was a remarkable look at how the German treated the Jews in the Warsaw Getto. It was made to capture and show people in the 1940’s how good the Jews had it under Hitler’s stiff hand. The film was supposed to be edited and all the terrible pictures were supposed to be cut, but the film never got finished. Instead the film was published without any corrections and it portrayed stories and pictures of how horrible the Jews were treated. To me, I don’t understand why the Jews were treated so badly. Maybe it’s because I don’t know enough about history so see Hitler’s view on Jews. But I think that blaming people for a war, just because they are Jews and treating them so terribly is inhumane even for the 1940’s. I will be totally honest. I am not a history person and maybe I was taught a little about the holocaust in high school but I don’t remember much. When I was told we are going to be writing a paper on the holocaust I was a little scared because I didn’t know what it was. But after watching this movie, I learned that the Germans controlled every aspect of the Jew’s lives. This film had disturbing photos and interviews of people who had lived in the Getto. The film says that nearly half a million Jews were “staged” in a just a few mile radius. I have only seen the movie where this can occur and it was so hard to watch. Children and families were starved and beaten if they tried to escape. I am wondering about the camera men? How could so many Germans take part in this evil act against the Jew’s? How can the people filming the Warsaw Getto be so okay with what they were doing? I know I could not do it. And today (I would like to think) something like that will never happen again. I feel sorry for the Jews.