Social Studies: Re-Creating The Past

Within the clips from an American miniseries called 'Brand of Brothers', the soldiers discovered the Nazi's concentration camps where they commit the mass murder of thousands of innocent lives of Jews due to the extreme prejudice of Hitler. The soldiers were shocked in terror at what they are witnessing. We see Jews with weak pale abnormal skinny body shapes walking around. They were all malnourished and some were in critical condition, on the verge of their own deaths due to starvation. The atmosphere of the area was dull and gloomy. Many have lost hope. Their body was almost like a skeleton with their ribs popping out. They were all wearing the same clothing with the yellow star of David sewn in it and bald cuts. When the soldiers approached them, they all clung to the fences with the visible misery on their faces willing to be saved and escape. We can also see the desperation of the Jews to live when the soldiers offered them food. It was beyond inhuman how Jews were treated during this era. It was traumatizing. The impact this discovery have on soldiers is the feeling of guilt and pity seeing what these innocent Jews have to suffer through and die without justice.