Powerful Movie - show it to my Juniors every year. Amazing story how greedy and power hungry he was then changes to help save so many.
When it came out Steven Spielberg sent every school a copy.

Powerful Movie - show it to my Juniors every year. Amazing story how greedy and power hungry he was then changes to help save so many.
When it came out Steven Spielberg sent every school a copy.

Don't worry. The anti-Semites will be along shortly to tell you it was either fake or the Jews fault. Dealt with that yesterday.
By the way, pretty awesome movie and there are a lot of interesting facts behind it. 1. Spielberg refused to direct it in color and supposedly said that if they wanted it in color he would quit.

Ya you sure "dealt with that"

It is also obvious who you are referring to as "anti semites", I reject that accusation and the name calling and labeling that you use to distract a conversation due to your insecurities is also something I would like to point out.

One can recognize historical and present wrongs in tandem, one is not mutually exclusive of the other.

As to not derail I will not reply back to this thread.

The movie is impactful as is but we have incredible discussions as well. The assignment with this segment of WWII era is to create a journal as if you were in someones shoes. I also had a gentlemen, Monty, he lived in Nazi Germany until he was 7 then moved to PA then WI. We were the first school he came in and spoke with about his life. I videoed it and it adds to it as well. He family has copies and is so thankful for it. He never told his family his story and his daughter came with. She cried the entire 90 minutes he spoke. He lived for six months in the Dachau camp after the war they had no where else to live. I love teaching and try to be sure my students all of history as it happened. Not the new stuff. LOL 2 years to retirement, scares me.

Saw the movie years ago. My Pappy(Step Father) served in Europe. Once when I was a kid, the teacher gave us a project. We were to make a flag, any flag, out of construction paper. I knew exactly what the Nazi flag looked like, having grown up watching all those WW2 movies.I made that flag. Got an "A" on it. Was proud and took it home. When the Old Man came home from work I showed it to him. He told me he was proud of the grade I'd earned, but to follow him into the back yard. He brought a small can of Zippo type lighter fluid. He had me place that flag on the ground and douse it with lighter fluid. He then had me burn it. I don't remember verbatim what he said, but it was along the lines of that flag represented something very sinister and he didn't want me to have it in our house. Never forgot that. He couldn't stand to be in a hospital when I was a kid either. The disinfectant they used reminded him of the smell of the concentrations camp, or camps, he'd seen soon after they'd been sanitized.

The movie is impactful as is but we have incredible discussions as well. The assignment with this segment of WWII era is to create a journal as if you were in someone's shoes. I also had a gentlemen, Monty, he lived in Nazi Germany until he was 7 then moved to PA then WI. We were the first school he came in and spoke with about his life. I videoed it and it adds to it as well. He family has copies and is so thankful for it. He never told his family his story and his daughter came with. She cried the entire 90 minutes he spoke. He lived for six months in the Dachau camp after the war they had no where else to live. I love teaching and try to be sure my students all of history as it happened. Not the new stuff. LOL 2 years to retirement, scares me.