Schindler's List During World War II

Schindler’s List
World War II was a very bad time for everybody. The world was going through a rough period of time. It was so bad that they gave it a name. We now call that period the Great Depression. Sounds depressing, I know. Adolf Hitler saw the Great Depression as a great opportunity to rise in power. He began telling the people of Germany exactly what they wanted to hear. Everybody believed him and Adolf Hitler joined a party called the Nazis. He saw this party as a great way to reach his political goals. Adolf Hitler built up the party from being a de facto group to an actual political group. He eventually became the leader of the group. Adolf Hitler told the people of Germany and anybody else who would listen to him that if they elected
the Nazis that they would return Germany to its rightful glory. Adolf Hitler also told the people of Germany that they would purify the Aryan race by getting rid of all European Jews and any other impure blood. By electing the Nazis, they would also give Germans some liebensraum. Liebensraum is another word for living room. By this, Adolf Hitler meant that he was going to take over other countries and just combine them all into one. In 1933, the Nazis won the majority of German parliament. Reichstag chose Adolf Hitler as the chancellor of Germany. As chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler’s first act was to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. After he suspended the writ of habeas corpus, the persecution of the “undesirable” people began.
The war was especially bad for the European Jews.
The Gypsies, the disabled, Poles, Russians and others also suffered. Other groups were targeted based on their political, ideological, and behavioral grounds like the Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. The European Jews got the worst of it, although, many others suffered. The National Socialist German Workers Party, also known as the Nazis, attempted genocide. Over six million European Jews were killed. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died from starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. During the war years, the Nazis sent the European Jews to concentration camps so that they could monitor the Jewish population. Later on, it was also used to facilitate deportation of the European Jews. They were force-labored camps. The German authorities established many more forced-labored camps, both in the so called Greater German Reich and in the German occupied territory, for the non-Jews whose labor the Germans wanted to exploit. The Holocaust was a very bad thing. Many people and a lot of families were hurt or killed by the happening of the Holocaust. The population of Germany decreased by a whole lot. I thought that the Holocaust was a very horrific time in our past. I would be absolutely terrified if something happened today that was even remotely close to the Holocaust. It would be terrible if someone had almost as much power as Adolf Hitler
did.
The movie Schindler’s List shows how many of the families were treated.
They didn’t have long to pack up what they wanted to take with them. They could only have anything that they could carry. Oskar Schindler was basically the only nice guy in the Nazi party. He tried to treat the European Jews as nice as he could without getting shot. While they were loaded on the trains, he gave them water and he saved over six hundred lives. In the movie Oskar wrote a list of many, many people that he would buy from Amön Goethe. Amön Goethe was the bad man. He was the guy that killed everybody. When Schindler bought all of the men, women, and children from Amön in the movie, he saved their lives. Schindler took them to another place and had them work in factories. He loaded all of the men up on one train and sent them to the new location first. After a while, he loaded up the women and children on another train and sent them on their way to the new location. The train with all of the women and children on it got the paperwork mixed up a train that was supposed to go to a concentration camp. The train went to where they were planning on putting them into gas chambers. They got their hair cut short, got stripped of their clothes, and they had to put their shoes in a large pile. Oskar realized what happened and got to the concentration camp just in time. The women and children were loaded up on a train and sent back to the location where all of the men were. In real life, Schindler’s list
of names of men, women, and children added up to be more than one thousand, one hundred names. I thought that the movie, Schindler’s List, was really long. I also thought that in some parts it was more interesting than in others. It was slightly inappropriate, which is why we had to get permission slips signed. For educational purposes, it was a very good movie.