Small group:
Today in small group we started a new documentary about the Nuremberg Trials. The trials were in place to charge the Nazi party leaders with various crimes. The crimes included Conspiracy to start a world war, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The idea that the trial was ran by the allies, who had just defeated Germany, brought up many questions. A main question was how this trial would be fair to the defense because most countries did not like the Nazis at this point. Also what the punishments should be given out to each individual defendant.
Large group:
We continued to watch Schindler's List today. In the film, we see Schindler slowly move from being a bystander in the Holocaust, to an upstander. He originally hired all the Jews so that he could get maximum profit from free labor, but because Stern is hiring workers who otherwise would be killed, Schindler starts to get the reputation as a savior. As he sees that he is helping so many people, he starts to help more and more people until today when we saw that he is in the process of buying mostly everyone from the labor camp with his own funds. This shift from bystander to upstander can be very dangerous for Schindler because if he is caught helping Jewish people he will be jailed or even killed.
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