I can't say with any certainty that I got from the actual footage exactly what the purpose of the Nazi's filming was for. Without the commentary from the survivors, you might not have any idea what was going on. If the filming was solely for the purpose of fooling the world, why film the deplorable conditions? Why film the filth and corpses lining the street? It seems that perhaps the juxtaposition in the footage was there simply for someone's enjoyment. I might be more apt to believe this as truth as opposed to just wanting to film some propaganda. Everyone who has had any kind of education on the Holocaust, knows that some of the Nazi's in power were just sick, sadistic people and their affiliations with Hitler and the Nazi party, gave them the green light to play doctor, or psycho, depending on what they were personally in to.
I'm not sure what a "summary" of this film is supposed to look like. Am I supposed to write a timeline? I wasn't making notes. I watch this film with disgust. I can hardly make myself look at images of starving children. I'm a mother. What would I have done? I cannot make my brain put myself in that postition, I cannot even try to imagine.
These videos were found in a concrete bunker, put together with narration from the only man who could be found to have worked a camera. There was commentary from survivors who watched the footage while being filmed. This film captured the awfulness of the Warsaw Ghetto. The film shows the inequality of the Jewish people that were detained there during 1942. The Nazi's, according to the testimony of one survivor in particular, got it wrong. Perhaps, had this movie been released as scheduled, some lives could have been saved. If the right people noticed that "hey, Jewish people don't bury their dead in boxes", just maybe the outcome could have been different. It's hard to not play the what if game when you see this film.
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