1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. "Nanking Massacre". June 1997.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_massacre>
2. The Rape of Nanking: Introduction. "Background". March 2001.
<http://www.tribo.org/nanking/>
3. Nanking, the Film. "Film Synopsis", "Production Team, Director/Producer, Bill Guttentag". November 2006.
<http://www.nankingthefilm.com/home.html>
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Written by Aries
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2008年6月21日 星期六
The clips of Shindler's list
Schindler's List - Trailer
Schindler's List "The Red Dress"
Schindler's List - Ending
by Victor
References:
“Schindler's List – Trailer”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
“Schindler's List "The Red Dress"”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
“Schindler's List - Ending”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
Schindler's List "The Red Dress"
Schindler's List - Ending
by Victor
References:
“Schindler's List – Trailer”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
“Schindler's List "The Red Dress"”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
“Schindler's List - Ending”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
The background of The Holocaust
The Holocaust, the extermination of Jews and executed by Nazi regime under the leader Adolf Hitler. The persecution and genocide were accomplished in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labors until they died of exhaustion or disease. Jews and Roma were crammed into ghettos before being transported hundreds of miles by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state.
Leading up to the 1933 elections, the Nazis began intensifying acts of violence to wreak havoc among the opposition. With the cooperation of local authorities, they set up camps as concentration centers within Germany. These early prisons—usually basements and storehouses—were eventually consolidated into full-blown, centrally run camps outside the cities. By 1942, six large extermination camps had been established in Nazi-occupied Poland. After 1939, the camps increasingly became places where Jews and POWs were killed or forced to live as slave laborers, undernourished and tortured. It is estimated that the Germans established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries, many of them in Poland. The transportation of prisoners was often carried out under horrifying conditions using rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination.
Extermination through labour, a means whereby camp inmates would literally be worked to death—or frequently worked until they could no longer perform work tasks, followed by their selection for extermination—was invoked as a further systematic extermination policy. Furthermore, while not designed as a method for systematic extermination, many camp prisoners died because of harsh overall conditions or from executions carried out on a whim after being allowed to live for days or months.
After the invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos throughout 1941 and 1942 to which Jews and some Roma were confined, until they were eventually shipped to death camps and killed. They were, in effect, immensely crowded prisons, described by Michael Berenbaum as instruments of "slow, passive murder. From 1940 through 1942, starvation and disease, especially typhoid, killed hundreds of thousands. Over 43,000 residents of the Warsaw ghetto died there in 1941.
Each ghetto was run by a Judenrat (Jewish council) of German-appointed Jewish community leaders, who were responsible for the day-to-day running of the ghetto, including the provision of food, water, heat, medicine, and shelter, and who were also expected to make arrangements for deportations to extermination camps.
by Victor
References:
“The Holocaust”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Leading up to the 1933 elections, the Nazis began intensifying acts of violence to wreak havoc among the opposition. With the cooperation of local authorities, they set up camps as concentration centers within Germany. These early prisons—usually basements and storehouses—were eventually consolidated into full-blown, centrally run camps outside the cities. By 1942, six large extermination camps had been established in Nazi-occupied Poland. After 1939, the camps increasingly became places where Jews and POWs were killed or forced to live as slave laborers, undernourished and tortured. It is estimated that the Germans established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries, many of them in Poland. The transportation of prisoners was often carried out under horrifying conditions using rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination.
Extermination through labour, a means whereby camp inmates would literally be worked to death—or frequently worked until they could no longer perform work tasks, followed by their selection for extermination—was invoked as a further systematic extermination policy. Furthermore, while not designed as a method for systematic extermination, many camp prisoners died because of harsh overall conditions or from executions carried out on a whim after being allowed to live for days or months.
After the invasion of Poland, the Nazis established ghettos throughout 1941 and 1942 to which Jews and some Roma were confined, until they were eventually shipped to death camps and killed. They were, in effect, immensely crowded prisons, described by Michael Berenbaum as instruments of "slow, passive murder. From 1940 through 1942, starvation and disease, especially typhoid, killed hundreds of thousands. Over 43,000 residents of the Warsaw ghetto died there in 1941.
Each ghetto was run by a Judenrat (Jewish council) of German-appointed Jewish community leaders, who were responsible for the day-to-day running of the ghetto, including the provision of food, water, heat, medicine, and shelter, and who were also expected to make arrangements for deportations to extermination camps.
by Victor
References:
“The Holocaust”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Introduction of Director of Schindler's list
Steven Allan Spielberg, (Honorary KBE, born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award winner and is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time; his films having made nearly $8 billion internationally. In 2006, the magazine Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure in the motion picture industry. Time listed him as one of the 100 Greatest People of the Century. And at the end of the twentieth century, Life named him the most influential person of his generation.
In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched many themes and genres. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, three of his films, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time. During his early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often seen as the archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his movies began addressing such historical issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war, and terrorism.
by Victor
References:
“Steven Allan Spielberg”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In a career that spans almost four decades, Spielberg's films have touched many themes and genres. During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, three of his films, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park became the highest grossing films for their time. During his early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often seen as the archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his movies began addressing such historical issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war, and terrorism.
by Victor
References:
“Steven Allan Spielberg”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Introduction of Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively. He was the subject of the book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.
Memorial for Oskar Schindler
by Victor
References:
“Oskar Schindler”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“Memorial for Oskar Schindler”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
Memorial for Oskar Schindler
by Victor
References:
“Oskar Schindler”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“Memorial for Oskar Schindler”, from Youtube-Brocast Yourself.
After Watching Schindler's list
Racialism is always the cause that leads to catastrophe in history event and it has existed for a long time. One of the most brutal and horrific event is the Holocaust which happened in twentieth century. The Jews was segregated and discriminated by German, between 1938 to 1945, the death toll approximated six million Jews.
Schindler’s list, based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The true story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, He witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death.
In this movie, we can see the how German belittles Jews. All Jews must leave the countryside and concentrate in the major cities. They are crammed into the "Jewish Quarter" of town, in this case Krakow. They are relieved that the Nazis have not killed them, but life is very hard in the Ghetto. However, this is just the beginning of the disaster. Oskar Schindler, he intends on making his fortune and hire a Jewish account, Itzhak Stern. We can realize the unequal status through their interaction. Jewish people live in the fear of being killed, the German, out of the pride of their race and the prejudice against Jews, they even don’t think Jews is human being. From German’s aspect, Jews just like animals. As the war progresses, the SS becomes more frantic with the implementation of "final solution." Goeth, the emotional and mutable SS officer, begins sending increasing numbers of people to Auschwitz, and Schindler's people are again at risk. Stern reminds his boss that the List is all that stands between them and extermination. Schindler even has to rescue Stern and a trainload of his workers from the gas chambers at one point.Realizing that Poland is too dangerous, Schindler buys a munitions factory in his native Czechoslovakia and moves "his" people there. Several hundred Jews are saved by his actions, though the bribes and other expenses required to do this bankrupt Schindler, who was wealthy at the height of the war. In the end, Schindler is ruined, but the people on his List are saved.
In this black-and-white movie, a girl in red coat appears. Why the red color shows up in this movie. I think that because red is a vivid color, it symbolize the Holocaust is also an event that we can see easily. However, we do nothing to stop it, just like the redcoat girl died in this movie. Spielberg also has an explanation of it, “It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color red in.”
This is a really good movie. It’s truly depicts the disaster and let us realize the history. It’s also makes us to reflect this event and how to avoid the same things happen again.
by Victor
“Schindler’s list”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Schindler’s list, based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The true story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, He witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death.
In this movie, we can see the how German belittles Jews. All Jews must leave the countryside and concentrate in the major cities. They are crammed into the "Jewish Quarter" of town, in this case Krakow. They are relieved that the Nazis have not killed them, but life is very hard in the Ghetto. However, this is just the beginning of the disaster. Oskar Schindler, he intends on making his fortune and hire a Jewish account, Itzhak Stern. We can realize the unequal status through their interaction. Jewish people live in the fear of being killed, the German, out of the pride of their race and the prejudice against Jews, they even don’t think Jews is human being. From German’s aspect, Jews just like animals. As the war progresses, the SS becomes more frantic with the implementation of "final solution." Goeth, the emotional and mutable SS officer, begins sending increasing numbers of people to Auschwitz, and Schindler's people are again at risk. Stern reminds his boss that the List is all that stands between them and extermination. Schindler even has to rescue Stern and a trainload of his workers from the gas chambers at one point.Realizing that Poland is too dangerous, Schindler buys a munitions factory in his native Czechoslovakia and moves "his" people there. Several hundred Jews are saved by his actions, though the bribes and other expenses required to do this bankrupt Schindler, who was wealthy at the height of the war. In the end, Schindler is ruined, but the people on his List are saved.
In this black-and-white movie, a girl in red coat appears. Why the red color shows up in this movie. I think that because red is a vivid color, it symbolize the Holocaust is also an event that we can see easily. However, we do nothing to stop it, just like the redcoat girl died in this movie. Spielberg also has an explanation of it, “It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color red in.”
This is a really good movie. It’s truly depicts the disaster and let us realize the history. It’s also makes us to reflect this event and how to avoid the same things happen again.
by Victor
“Schindler’s list”, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Nanking Massacre, A History and A Scar
In the name of the history, all atrocities should be condemned; all innocent victims should be conciliated and all truths should be reavealed. In all souls of Chinese, we got a collective consciousness, which is the memory of how our species suffered in the World war II and the unforgettable scar and sorrow in the war against to Japan imperialism. Eight years of hard fighting against Japan invasion, the Chinese survival was put into severe tests, however, showed its magnificence and dignity. Nanking Massacre was one of the cruelest events in human history, no matter in its scale or in range. According to the summary judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East – also known as the Tokyo Trials, “estimates indicate that the total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking and its vicinity during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. Unfortunately, the nation, Japan, which in charge of the atrocities still refuse to admit the rape of the Nanking and is unwilling to apologize to the victims. Furthermore, their authority cheat their own people and the whole world and try to cover up the atrocities. In order to accuse the feigned truths which was made to conceal the true history, after reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking", Bill Guttentag standed out as a director and producer with his outstanding idiosyncrasies, making a documentary about Nanking Massacre through the eyes of a group of the third-party people, the westerners. He interpreted the events through a different view, which in two parts moved me a lot, idiosyncrassies and humanity concern with no limitation.
The movie was made in a moving idiosyncrasy, which make its audiences impossible to ignore the shock and vigor transmit from the screen. Interviews of survivors and archival footages come one after the others, combine with a pre-filmed emotional stage reading of the diaries and letters which were written by those westerners holding the safety zone, it is so touchable that made me have goose bumps when I was watching. I remember an old lady, who described how her family were separated and how she was raped for exchange for her younger sister's life. The sadest scene to me is that she described this horrible event in a plain tone as if it happened to somebody else, however, I knew that the expression was a tone with no soul and animation, for that she had left her soul and happiness in the day her life was raped. I believe everybody could understand this. After unbearable agonies, people would lose some parts of themselves and their lives woould get tremendously changed. The reaction of the old lady coould be easily understand by all audiences and get their sympathies. However, there is nothing in the whole world could compensate or make up the old lady's lose in that catastrophic evening.
Secondly, another aspect moved me a lot in the film, which is the selflessness of those westerners. They could flee back to their countries, Japanese authority had already announced the quests of evacuation for those foreigners who still stayed in China, however, they chose to stay spontaneously. They might be killed by unleashed and mad Japanese soldiers or got shot for hanging around on the streets, not to mention to hold the safety zones for refugees, however, they did it. Only at the extreme situations could humans' noblest natures be displayed. They would not soldiers, on the contrast, they would just unarmed civilians, who were doctors, nurses, nuns, teachers and merchantdisers. They could get killed for these disobediences to the order of evacuation, but they would rather choose to stay, not because of they were trying to be heroes, but for they thought they should. They firmly believed in what they were doing at the mid of the massacre and at the moment, the released faces from refugees would their greatest rewards. There is a old yet percise term for whom did these great deeds, "Anonymous heroes", for them making all the differences for those refugees in matter of life and death. All Chinese and its descendents should honor their names and keep it in mind for their noblenesses, more even, the whole humanity should remember and cherish these characteristics in human being natures. No matter how the world changes, I believe in the noble characteristic in human nature.
To us, it might just a movie, which is as unreal as a distant war, but for those old ladies and old men, these are the wound and scar which haunt them to their death. We, Chinese, should not forget these, even, the world should not forget these. These stories should be recorded and carried on from generations to generations, in case of such cruelty will not happen again to any species in the world. After all, what make us superior to another creatures in the world? they are civilization, rationalism and kindness.
Written by Aries
The movie was made in a moving idiosyncrasy, which make its audiences impossible to ignore the shock and vigor transmit from the screen. Interviews of survivors and archival footages come one after the others, combine with a pre-filmed emotional stage reading of the diaries and letters which were written by those westerners holding the safety zone, it is so touchable that made me have goose bumps when I was watching. I remember an old lady, who described how her family were separated and how she was raped for exchange for her younger sister's life. The sadest scene to me is that she described this horrible event in a plain tone as if it happened to somebody else, however, I knew that the expression was a tone with no soul and animation, for that she had left her soul and happiness in the day her life was raped. I believe everybody could understand this. After unbearable agonies, people would lose some parts of themselves and their lives woould get tremendously changed. The reaction of the old lady coould be easily understand by all audiences and get their sympathies. However, there is nothing in the whole world could compensate or make up the old lady's lose in that catastrophic evening.
Secondly, another aspect moved me a lot in the film, which is the selflessness of those westerners. They could flee back to their countries, Japanese authority had already announced the quests of evacuation for those foreigners who still stayed in China, however, they chose to stay spontaneously. They might be killed by unleashed and mad Japanese soldiers or got shot for hanging around on the streets, not to mention to hold the safety zones for refugees, however, they did it. Only at the extreme situations could humans' noblest natures be displayed. They would not soldiers, on the contrast, they would just unarmed civilians, who were doctors, nurses, nuns, teachers and merchantdisers. They could get killed for these disobediences to the order of evacuation, but they would rather choose to stay, not because of they were trying to be heroes, but for they thought they should. They firmly believed in what they were doing at the mid of the massacre and at the moment, the released faces from refugees would their greatest rewards. There is a old yet percise term for whom did these great deeds, "Anonymous heroes", for them making all the differences for those refugees in matter of life and death. All Chinese and its descendents should honor their names and keep it in mind for their noblenesses, more even, the whole humanity should remember and cherish these characteristics in human being natures. No matter how the world changes, I believe in the noble characteristic in human nature.
To us, it might just a movie, which is as unreal as a distant war, but for those old ladies and old men, these are the wound and scar which haunt them to their death. We, Chinese, should not forget these, even, the world should not forget these. These stories should be recorded and carried on from generations to generations, in case of such cruelty will not happen again to any species in the world. After all, what make us superior to another creatures in the world? they are civilization, rationalism and kindness.
Written by Aries
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