StreepIrons, if you are still on here . . .
I haven't seen the 2012 movie "Lore", out of Germany, a story about survival of four or five German children and one camp survivor immediately after Germany surrendered. Looking forward to seeing it as I have been on a quest to understand pre-WW II behavior of the citizenry, Jewish and non-Jewish, AND to understand how the citizenry reacted afterwards.
The denazification trials are interesting to me, too. I've read as much as I can about those.
Unfortunately, exploring these things may have to happen with reading, but we should share any movies we know about, as they are easier for teaching lessons (classrooms, homes). Holocaust survivors' memoirs abound; they discuss the weeks, months, and years in Europe after the surrender but also the survivors' lives in whatever country they landed in. Like in this film, a lot of those memoirs are Hungarians.
This movie REALLY moved me. The DVD special features include "the making of . . ." and an interview with the author, a camp survivor at age 14 (he denies that the novel (pub. 1975) and, therefore, the film, is NOT autobiographical. The interview shared amazing insights into this experience.
Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. -American History X (1998)
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