Most Horrific and Powerful Movie ever made..32 minutes... Night and Fog...

[Stuart G]

Night and Fog...documentary...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/?ref_=tt_sims_tt

The Most Powerful Film Ever Made (I wrote this review in 2004..still holds true today, Dec 6, 2020)
stuartpiles16 November 2004


If you want to describe or give your audience a feeling for the holocaust, or "Man's Inhumanity To Man", then this is the vehicle to use..Show it..be warned, it is so powerful, that you will never forget what you see, neither will any of your viewers..It is impossible to describe, intermixing l955 footage of Auchwitz Concentration Camp, with captured Nazi footage which the allies found at the end of the war, and the scenes of American and British troops liberating the camps...In French, with English subtitles.. and scenes that are unforgettable and horrific. Even the sad music of death from this film plays in my ears, and I have not seen it in 15 years. Once you hear it, you will know.

This is the one to show if you want people to understand the truth of what happened and the reason for its reaction in today's current events....It is shocking in a special way. I showed it to my classes. Students were warned, and told what was coming, they said it would be "nothing" By the end some were crying and moaning in horror...

[LearnedHand]

1. Um, which film? (eom)

Edit: I mean, what's the title? Am I missing somehow?

[Stuart G]

2. I apologize..in a moment a link to the IMBD discription...my error...sorry.

[LearnedHand]

3. Oh whew. I though I just failed Film 101

[Cicada]

4. Knowing there would be deniers Eisenhower made his generals visit the camps

He visited them and had others visit so they could be first hand witnesses when deniers emerged. The hard as nails General Patton threw up when he came back outside.

[Stuart G]

5. Yes, this is a real..horror movie, but more killed-Russian Dead WW 2- 16million, Chinese- 20million

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I taught this in high school......few know about this today....

Little known facts:

Russian Dead in WWII....16,000,000
Chinese Dead in WWII....20,000,000
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Total U.S. Dead from WWII....405,000...this number is from this link:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&q=american+died+in+ww2#spf=1607296310989
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Total deaths in WWII with Russian and Chinese numbers from this link:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=Russian+Dead+&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&q=russian+dead+ww2&gs_l=hp..1.0i457i10j0l4.0.0.0.364237...........0.3qHlDODpOUQ#spf=1607292984611

[Arne]

6. This is a deep dark hole.

I had to pull out, it was too much.

[handmade34]

7. I had a difficult time

even getting through the "Stanford Prison Experiment" I am an empath and cannot easily get through any film about the Holocaust, although I feel I should watch. Reading is difficult enough

[Stuart G]

8. I had the exact same experiece with a book: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", by Dee Brown

...This book is about senseless killings and starvation of Native Americans...One section about the killing
of women and children by a group of.... American Cavalry Soldiers.. for no purpose whatsoever..
stopped my reading completely...It was not even the Wounded Knee Massacre...it was another massacre..

...At that point, (It was in the 1870s or 80s) ....our soldiers got drunk, and went into the camp, all the men were out hunting, so the soldiers killed all the women and children and old men that were left in the camp.
....Sand Creek Massacre .....warning...awful reading and tragedy..!!!(of course you don't know about this because it was never taught to you...was it?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Creek_massacre


Now at that point in the book, 2/3rds of the way through, I put it down and never read another word..
I was going to have my students read that book, but I didn't have them read it...Yes, I did have my
students watch ..Night and Fog...warned them...32 minutes of total horror...(any that did not want to
watch, were given a pass to spend the time if they wanted to ...in the library..)

...I warned them, but as the review says...at the end some were screaming in horror....I doubt they will
ever forget that movie..because the moment after someone showed it to me,...I never forgot it..