After watching “Night and Fog” in our last class, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It is one of the most powerful documentaries I have seen. It’s so hard to believe that there are human beings that are sick enough to do this to other human beings. People talk about hell in the after-life, but this was hell right here, on our Earth. While watching it in class, I kind of forgot we were watching a documentary, I truly felt like we were watching a horror film, but after class was finished, it was hard to tell myself that these things really happened to people. I felt like it helped me become more appreciative of my life. Sometimes we get caught up in minor problems and day to day inconveniences, we forget how good we have it, how blessed some of us are. The victims in that documentary got everything taken away from them, the fact that they were human beings were even stripped from them. I feel like there would be much more compassionate human beings if every person seen this. When the professor said it would be graphic and disturbing, I honestly completely underestimated her warning, I thought maybe because she is a professor, she felt like she should say this to the students just to be safe, but NO, her warning was definitely accurate. There were scenes I had to cover my eyes, especially the scenes of the bulldozers and all those corpses, I started feeling sick. It shocks me that the guards and workers just did their horrific job with no remorse. I understand they would have most likely been killed if they refused to do their job or if they tried to help the victims, but personally I’d rather die than to do this to another human being. The saddest part is I feel like some of us don’t learn from history and let it repeat. There are human beings on the other side of the world who are crying for help, such as the people of Syria, and a lot of us are blind to it, including myself. I’m not sure if it’s as bad as what happened in this documentary, and I won’t know because I feel like the media tries to hide it.
I completely agree with you and the whole aspect of this inhumane event that occurred. It’s disgusting that humans just like us were treated and killed like they were NOTHING. But you can’t blame the prisoners, workers and guards for doing what they were told. They didn’t have a choice. They too would of been killed if they disobeyed any order given by their commander. Hitler had no regards to life. They did what they had to do to survive and provide for their family. As the film showed a prisoner had to bury his own wife and kid and is still living today cause he was forced to do as he was told. We haven’t lived in those circumstances so it’s hard to say why didn’t all the people just over throw hitler many outsiders didn’t even know what was going on in those camps. At the end of the Day there’s a lot going on today that we can’t control. We live our lives in order to become successful everyday. Can’t sit down and think about 7 billion other lives you’ll just get stressed out. Unfortunately this is the type of people that live in this world. All I could say is “To Each it’s Own.”