... badge on, pushing past Jews on a stairway to get into the Judenrat (a place to see Jewish councillors to complain about the Nazis). He asks for a man called Itzak Stern, and the whole bustling place falls quiet, and everyone looks at Stern. This scene demonstrates how the Jews fear Schindlers power, as there ... makes me remember the scene well. Spielberg also creates sympathy for the Jews by using the same character; the one armed machinist. The one armed man had earlier thanked Schindler for taking him on, and we all felt sorry for him, so when the Nazis pulled him over we all knew he...

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... shot again and again, point blank, center body mass. Blood is spilled. Neil collapses and dies. His (real) heart stops beating. The hero is dead, truly dead. Back in the Nebuchadnezzar our protagonists are shocked. 'This can't be,' all of them think and say. Trinity is beside Neil's lifeless body. She ... once again talks to Neil, amidst the din of the sentinels' attack. As in the club scene she is again whispering, this time, however, to a dead man. She reveals her love for him. She kisses him... And life is breathed back into him. Neil gasps like a newborn baby taking in its first lun...

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... people to die of asphyxiation was 4 minutes (Bedford 90). Burn pits were the main way to get rid of the many bodies of the dead. Most furnaces could burn 2,000 bodies in 24 hours. The record for most bodies incinerated in 24 hours was 9,000 (Grzech 2). The ... throttled two elderly prisoners, by laying a walking stick across their throats and then standing on it. The same cruel guard executed a prisoner by hanging him. When the rope broke before the man was dead, the guard beat the man, then hung him again (Bedford 31). Another man knocked a mother and her daughter into ... a burning pit...

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... and destruction flashed through newsreels. The freedom of the Jews living in Budapest still remained untouched for the most part in 1939, but no man could have foreseen the devastation that the mass genocide was ready to unveil. In 1939, the Jewish community slowly began to lose its footing ... was Christian, and had visited the Budapest ghettos to bring small parcels of food to his relatives that had not been sent to the concentration camps. Walking the streets of Budapest filled him with disgust and sorrow. Bodies piled high and disease abundant; Andrew entered the homes of his family ...

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... understand why they would. There was lice in the camps and to stop from itching their skin raw, some committed suicide by running into the barbed-wire fences. For every man that killed themselves, they took 100 Jews and killed them in front of everyone to set an example. These are just a few of the things I learned in the video. Having ... American soldiers didn't know they were going into concentration camps and that they thought they were flying into German military camps. They found forty boxcars full of dead bodies and were met by the "walking dead," "skeletons." I loved how Tom Lan...

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... dealt with people like we are dealing with commodities not even cattle. For example coal is mined, sorted, transported and burned in a casual manner, when it comes to transport cattle man is more careful; cattle requires the supply of fodder, water and proper facilities. The SS dealt with their victims like with commodities. People were collected, stored, transported to Gas Chambers ... it. Whether they survived or not, every Holocaust victim must be looked at with awe. Imagine what there eyes saw, what there souls felt, and how there hearts burned. Imagine walking towards a mass grave ...

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