Downfall

Hello all,

In class, our study of Nazi Germany protrayed Adolf Hitler as a monster. The movie shows the human side of Hitler and many critics did not like the film for this. Some who watched this film actually said that they felt sympathy for Hitler in his bunker during his final days. This has disgusted people because sympathy is not an emotion that one should feel for Hitler. Please post your comments, thoughts, emotions, etc. that you thought of when you watched this film. Did this have an impact on you? What did you learn? Did you have feelings of sympathy? How did you feel about Magda Goebbels? Thanks for coming and staying after school.

Yosh

The Rape of Nanking: City of Life and Death

Hello all,

Thanks for taking the time to come out and watch some truly uncomfortable history. Feel free to now express your opinions, emotions, observations, etc. regarding this movie on a very understudied topic, the Asian Holocaust. Some ideas: the parallels to Schindler's List, the black and white presentation, the dehumanizing of the Chinese comfort women, the feelings of superiority among some of the Japanese soldiers, putting a human face on this event, etc. I know that this is not easy material to discuss and write about but we can't ignore what has happened because of ultra-nationalism in the past.

Yosh