La Vita È Bella: a Look Into Nazi Concentration Camps
La Vita è Bella: A Look into Nazi Concentration Camps
Movie:
Life is beautiful. Hitler had a different vision of beautiful, which he shared with others of the Nazi party. They believed their race to be “pure” and wanted only the so-called “pure” to remain. Hitler and the Nazis took advantage of their power and tried to execute all people who they didn’t believe to be of their “pure” race.
“As for the Jews, they are incapable of being enlightened by German culture. Instead, they are destroyers of culture, defilers of Aryan blood, the enemies of all that is noble and pure. Throughout the pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler heaps abuse on the Jews, calling them “maggots,” “blood-suckers,” “vampires,” “a pestilence,” and “personifications of the Devil.” The goal of the Jews, he writes, is to defile the German race, dilute the pure Aryan blood, and take control of the world.” (Lace 40, 41)
The Nazis’ viewed other cultures as being below their own. Children were taught from the beginning to despise Jews, even in school. Children were enlisted in the Hitler Youth, where they would be taught and trained in Nazi policies. Millions of people were separated from their homes and families, forced to do strenuous labor, tortured, and killed. In the Nazi concentration camps, many people did not make it out with their lives; they were placed in the Nazi’s hands of fate and unfortunately had to endure trials no person should ever be put through.
The Italian movie La Vita è Bella is based in the 1930s. The small family of Guido, Dora, and their son Giosuè are taken from their home by German forces and put into a concentration camp. Giosuè and his father stay together, while his mother is taken to a separate camp for women. To get Giosuè to cooperate with the Germans’ demands, his father tells him they are playing a game, and he has to do exactly as they say to win the prize, which he believes to be a tank. Guido tells his son that he has to be quite and follow
Movie:
Life is beautiful. Hitler had a different vision of beautiful, which he shared with others of the Nazi party. They believed their race to be “pure” and wanted only the so-called “pure” to remain. Hitler and the Nazis took advantage of their power and tried to execute all people who they didn’t believe to be of their “pure” race.
“As for the Jews, they are incapable of being enlightened by German culture. Instead, they are destroyers of culture, defilers of Aryan blood, the enemies of all that is noble and pure. Throughout the pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler heaps abuse on the Jews, calling them “maggots,” “blood-suckers,” “vampires,” “a pestilence,” and “personifications of the Devil.” The goal of the Jews, he writes, is to defile the German race, dilute the pure Aryan blood, and take control of the world.” (Lace 40, 41)
The Nazis’ viewed other cultures as being below their own. Children were taught from the beginning to despise Jews, even in school. Children were enlisted in the Hitler Youth, where they would be taught and trained in Nazi policies. Millions of people were separated from their homes and families, forced to do strenuous labor, tortured, and killed. In the Nazi concentration camps, many people did not make it out with their lives; they were placed in the Nazi’s hands of fate and unfortunately had to endure trials no person should ever be put through.
The Italian movie La Vita è Bella is based in the 1930s. The small family of Guido, Dora, and their son Giosuè are taken from their home by German forces and put into a concentration camp. Giosuè and his father stay together, while his mother is taken to a separate camp for women. To get Giosuè to cooperate with the Germans’ demands, his father tells him they are playing a game, and he has to do exactly as they say to win the prize, which he believes to be a tank. Guido tells his son that he has to be quite and follow