In the movie, Anne Frank Remembered, producers recounted the story of "Hitler's best-known victim", Anne Frank, through the memoirs of those individuals that best knew her and through the intimate confessions to her best friend and confidant, her diary. Woven into the plot of this unforgettable story, however, is a revelation that is even more terrifying than the details provided to us in Anne Frank's story, a discovery that which is the basis for Anne Frank and other Holocaust victims alike.
In Anne Frank Remembered, viewers are challenged to face the realities of our world's history and how the issues of prejudice, discrimination, persecution, and violence, led to history's most recognized case of ethnic cleansing. Movie producers created an ambiance of authenticity by the use of footage from the Nazi regime, personal accounts of Holocaust survivors, and visits made to the world's most notorious concentration camps. These graphic and haunting images provide viewers with an overwhelming sense of the numerous injustices that Jewish people suffered for more than a decade.
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United StatesIn Hitler's attempt to create the Aryan Nation, he and his followers forced people into hiding, tore apart families, threatened, intimidated, humiliated, tortured, and killed masses of human beings. They were stripped of every basic human right and made out to be less than animals, and for what? Hitler's ethnocentric ideals and demonic plan to eradicate Europe of all Jewish people was almost successful. Frightening as it may be, viewers get the sense of the power of discrimination and the need for a positive resolution. As discussed in class, one must ask him or herself, how did the Holocaust manifest itself?; could it happen again?; and could it happen in the United States? My answer to the latter questions is, yes.
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