Genocide

Genocide

The horrifying contents of this film are narrated by the voices of two well-known artists. Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles guide the audience to witness throughout the scenes of the Holocaust event. Stories are retold throughout detailed accounts from letters, journals, and remembrances of survivors.
As a viewer of the documentary, I was captured by the terrible ordeals and sufferings of the victims and survivors. The subject placed myself in a mode of profound thought on how a controlled situation of genocide could exist and be sustained by mere words and actions of one man. The power that overcame Europe existed not too long ago.

We all know the source and cause of the Holocaust existed in Adolf Hitler. Yet, history often tries to find the root of the reasoning behind the murders of innocent people due to their heritage and background. My question is how men can psychologically exist in a certain mindset and in course of his lifetime, he changed for evil? Does man relive a past dire situation then become fixated on the occurrence until insanity sets in? Did Hitler have a hidden obsession of destroying a certain race due to childhood embarrassment of ridicule?  Historians sourced the reason to his felt outwardly rejection from the insides of the art world. At a young age, he was not accepted into an art school which in return he took control of Parisian, Italian, German, and other genius types of masterpieces. He practically destroyed the artists who did not escape from his wrath.

I ponder whether this could be changed. Can we prevent major incidents in the history by accepting all and nourishing their strengths instead of weaknesses? Do we have no control on how a man accepts his behavior and projected his evils onto the world?

What we have control is seeing these murders in a documentary. We can learn from lessons from before. Our actions are our choices to remain the same or change. I completely sympathize the past especially seeing the awful scenes of women, children, and men being starved, beaten, and killed. It is almost unbearable to view that mankind could be dehumanized.

The film was edited and narrated in a great historical recount of the Holocaust. The contents conjured up the curiosity on exploring and finding stories on the event and visiting more museums based on anti-Semitism. Simon Wiesenthal Center funded the film projects. I hope to one day to visit the center in Manhattan after viewing films based on the Holocaust due to this documentary blog journey.