12/04/14 class summary

Today in large group we started to watch the movie Schindler's List. It showed the early steps of "ethnic cleansing" like the separation of Jews into ghettos. It also showed how some people were trying to help other Jews by creating jobs for them. If they were considered valuable workers for the German war effort they could be saved from concentration/ death camps for the time being. The film also showed why the Jews did not try to fight back, because they believed that being in the ghettos was the worst it could get. In the train scene, the government inefficiency was shown when Schindler wanted his employee back, and gets it by threatening to send the german soldiers to Russia.