Devon Bennett Video Response

Class Film

The film we watched in class was a propaganda film that the Nazi party filmed to show life in the ghettos.  The film was intended to let people see just how great the ghettos were by the Nazis but they also filmed the dark side of the ghetto.  They never thought that one day people might actually see what was going on inside these ghettos and just how horrible the conditions were.  After watching this film one can only say that the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were treated as if they were the animals that the Nazis used as a joke for their entertainment. 

The conditions inside the ghetto were some of the worst things I have ever seen before.  The people were actually dead on the street and because the people were so sick themselves and starving they didn’t have the time to mourn.  The people were numb according to a lady in the film casing them to be oblivious to the pain and agony inside the camp. 

I would have to say that the Nazis were playing a huge trick on the Jews and they were just trying to create propaganda.  They would create scenes inside the camp that portrayed a group of people that were having a great time.  They showed people dinning with the best things money could buy, and living a life that was so false that even the Jews doing it had a hard time understanding.   According to the people on the film they were told if they didn’t cooperate they would be shot and killed.  They were forced to laugh and pretend that they had a great life going for them. 

The major feature in the film was the interview with the guy who was hired by the Nazis to film the ghetto.  He was asked if he knew what was going in inside the ghetto and he said that he didn’t until after.  He knew that things were not as good as the film was to portray but he couldn’t do anything or he would have been charged as well. 

The real reason that all of this was done was because the population in Germany was starting to get curious as to where all the Jews went and they wanted to know.  They were going to be shown by the Nazi party that they were fine in this ghetto living one of the best lives a person could possibly live.