Flim Lesson: Night and Fog

Night and Fog is a black and white, 32 minute documentary film about the Nazi concentration camps made in 1955. The film concentrated on violent images of the concentration camps and the consequences of the Nazis hatred.

Some of the powerful scenes of the movie were the sick Jews, the hangings, and the real footage that the Nazis took themselves. The doctors would experiment on the sick Jews, causing more damage and leaving them for dead. They decapitated the heads of the bodies and did tests on them. Throughout the camps, there were piles of dead bodies. There were even some Jewish prisoners who tried to escape but their attempts failed. They were hung on the gates of Auschwitz and others tried to break their way out of the gas chambers.

The Nazis would use the hair of the Jewish people to make carpets and sell it for money. They made soap by using the dead bodies. They kept all of their belongings such as their passports, shoes and their jewelry. The Nazis kept a tally of how many people they had killed for each day. The remaining Jews were starved, and were forced to work day and night. The Nazis enjoyed to humiliate the Jews. They would do a selection in which they would kill off the weak ones by doing a series of tests.

Schindler's List does not compare with Night and Fog. The film has more graphic scenes which depict the cruel treatments the Jews had to endure. The documentary has more haunting images, and show the immoral beings that Nazis were. Night and fog captures every inhumane act of the Nazis more effectively than the Hollywood Version.