Small group:
Today in small group we talked more about questions in the "Kingdom of Auschwitz". We talked about how it was possible for the death/ concentration camps to be so private. The idea that the Germans were taking people and mass killing them as well as making them work until they die from exhaustion was very unbelievable to many people. Like in night when Moshe the Beadle tells people what is going on but nobody believes him and thinks he is crazy. He is seen as crazy for trying to spread such crazy stories but in reality its true. He was almost like an Alex Jones of that time, so it is understandable how what was going on was an exaggeration or a lie.
Large group:
We continued to watch Schindler's List and the concept of disbelief was further shown. Even people who where working in labor camps could not believe that in other camps people were being mass exterminated. It was too hard for people to grasp because they simply did not want to believe what they were hearing. Also the movie showed how Germans could feel connections to Jews although they had been taught that Jews were vermin, and sub-human. This was shown when the main labor camp leader realized that his Jewish maid was actually a nice person, who had skills.
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