This week film we watched was Night and Fog. Documentary witched film Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. One of the first place reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog changes the stillness of the abandoned camps with haunting wartime footage. This film is pretty big eye opener, even though it’s a few years after the holocaust the concentrated camps was definitely a brutal place to be in. Alain Resnais dose a great job in filming the environment and showing real footage on what they actually did to the Jews people in different areas of the camp. The scene that really pops out to me is the gas chambers mindset that Jews are going in there to take a shower but in reality there walking into their own death Alain Resnais does a great job filming the scratches on the wall then showing some real film of the bodies laying on the floor after being gassed. I also found it interesting that there wasn’t just all Jews, criminals were also locked inside the camps but were treated better compared to the Jews. I wish I could say I’m surprised about that but I’m not Jews pretty much the low of lowest in the camps. Just crazy to me that week prior we watched a film when Hitler was on the rise to power and it gave this new life feeling just to see what happens years latter really makes me think if German citizen knew this was going to happen how many would be actually back up Hitler still. I still stand by my statement it’s one thing to read about what happened but its way different watching it happen it even though you can paint a pitcher in your head but I feel like your imagination limits you then actually seeing it.


“if German citizen knew this was going to happen how many would be actually back up Hitler still”
I’ve given this a lot of thought as well, In Triumph of the Will everything felt so uplifting that it was just about the restoration of Germany. The Nazi party came off as more of a fraternity. The citizens seemed excited for something to believe in and opportunity to do better in a time of Economical Strife. Similar to the United States current political atmosphere, One can only worry about the future of our country and its treatment of all minorities. The Stacks of Hair, Shoes, Heads Bundled together. The environment was that of a Rob Zombie or Something out of the SAW films. Imagining people scratching at a wall in their struggle to stay alive is a horrendous visual.