"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

"What luck for leaders that men do not think."

~ Hitler

THE PIANIST

A certain craze for history films these daez...

Juz borrowed The Pianist from one of my floormates....

It's a story takin place during World War II... a real life story of a Jew Pianist who survived through the war. Well... no matter how many times you watched films on the portrayal of the Jews, it is still very heart rendering the way they were treated then.

A scene at the beginning had a Jew wearing the Star of David arm band as a LABEL of his inferiority and two Nazis soldiers stopped him on the pavement and said,

"Hey... you did not bow."

So the Jewish man turned back and bow. But one of the Nazi soldiers slapped him anyway. The man did not utter a word and walk away. The same soldier then shouted behind him,

"You are not allowed to walk on the pavement, use the gutter instead!"

The man just do as he was told.. stepping into the gutter with puddles of sewage water.

Something this small leaves an impression on me...

Not only will you commiserate at their misfortunes.. but you can't help marvelling at Hitler's frigid and yet captivating propensity to spellbind the public into believing the Jews as vile.

Trailers here

Click on The Pianist poster. itune is required to view the trailer.
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SYSTEMATIC KILLING

Never understand why it happens.. but it happened. The Jews were systematically herded together and gassed. - Final Solution to the Jewish problem.

1) Banned from goin to public places, using public facilities, the need to wear the Star of David (a Jewish emblem) and no inter racial marriages

Hey... Jews were not even a race on its own.

2) Gathered in ghettos - small areas designated for large number of Jews.

During this period of time, large number of Jews were shot to death as well. (esp. for artists, musicians.. people who could not contribute to the production of war goods); The area is sealed off with brick walls.

3) Concentration camps (mostly in Poland) to be gassed. This too, it's systematic.

Initially, the Jews thought that they were gathered there to provide free labour for the Germans. But things got a lot worse.

They were ask to undress... Nazis took all their valuables including gold dentures. (dur)

Nazis soldiers then shaved them hairless (regardless of their genders) and they were asked to go into a big "bath room" where they were showered.

And then.. the final destination would be the gas chamber where they were gassed. The Nazis would then pile up the corpses and burn them.

Gosh... Arent the Nazis mad?

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THE SCHINDLER'S LIST

Anyway...

In the Schindler's List, the man Oskar Schindler, a Nazis officer and well known womanizer, saved about a thousand Jews who were nearly gassed to death.

It is, again, a real life story... and in fact, the Jews who were saved by him call themselves "Schindler's Jews". He saved them by making a list and hiring them in his factory claiming to produce goods for the Nazis. But in actuality, it never produce anything.

Because of him, the Auschwitz concentration camp with an atrocious and infamous name of being a camp where "trains that entered never leave", there was one train that was able to leave the camp. It housed the Jewish women and children on Schindler's List.

Check out the website here:
www.schindlerslist.com