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Christian Attitude wasn't Emphesized Enough


only one singel scene, in the church, closing the window.

but the attitude or actually non-attitude of Christian community especially of Europe should be clarified more. how they watched sneaking the decrease of the "count" of the jews.

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well seeing as probably 3 Million Polish Christian's died in Poland as well i fail to see your point. Poland was an occupied country , what do you expect them to them lodge a complaint at SS Headquarters.
I respect the polish they fought when it was wise and had a chance to succeed i.e Warsaw uprising but Stalin screwed them , i.e look up katyn, where half the polish officer corp was murdered by Stalin.

the reality is the Christian Polish where as powerless as the Jewish Polish.
Hitler was anti-Christian but for the time being didn't want to antagonize them too much seeing as Italy was an ally, and a large part of the 3rd Reich(occupied and Germany) was christian.

The real question in respect to religion and Hitler is the Arab / Muslim support for Nazism which is kind off forgotten.

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I get the point of needing to see the Polish point of view during the German Occupation. The only one that I've seen really cover it was Hidden in Silence, and that was a very simplified story I think. I honestly don't know if there are other films that delve more into the other side of things.

The thing is? This movie wasn't about the Christians or even just non-Jewish Poles. You have a few touchstones with Mordechai being betrayed as he tries to escape, you have Yitzhak working with the Home Army facing their blatant anti-Semitism, Tosia facing the black-mailers and watching the priest have the window closed. It's enough to make it clear the uphill battle the group faced. But the story? it's theirs, the Jewish experience - the argument over prudence vs. action, conciliation vs. active resistance.

The sad thing is that this story, and other stories of resistance are not widely known. There is an air of passiveness that the Jews are painted with and it is not the whole story - and not the only way to look at it. Even within the film, there is an argument about what resistance can entail. Sutherland's character points out the bravery of a mother with small children standing in line to get that day/week's ration of bread just to keep her babies alive.

I'm going off on a tangent here, but the bottom line is - this movie is solely about the Jewish fighters' experiences.

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