The part of the movie that I have reacted most strongly towards was the film of the prisoners of the concentration camps. They looked like walking skeletons. I had never seen anything like that before, and what made it worse was that these were images of what real people looked like. I was amazed that any of them were still alive. They were so thin that they scarcely looked human. I cannot believe that the soldiers at the concentration camps were able to do that to other people and still sleep at night. It was also terrible seeing the way to corpses were treated. The worst part was the faces. Each prisoner still had a recognizable, individual face. This made them appear more human, yet completely unnatural. Their heads were by far the largest part of their bodies, and their expressions were of pure torment. I think it is absolutely horrible that anyone had to be put through that ever, and this happened less than a century ago.
The Nazi leaders' arrogance is particularly upsetting. They made the orders that made people dwindle to these walking skeletons, yet they still all pleaded not guilty. I would have thought that at least one of the officers would have fessed up to what he did. However, there are also the countless German soldiers, some of whom were in the film, who were not punished for their crimes in the concentration camp. I don't know how one can claim that they were just following orders. It was obvious that what they were doing was wrong, yet very few stood up for the Jews.
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