A Film Unfinished-Review

“A Film Unfinished”, otherwise known as “Das Ghetto”, is a horrifying example of how history can be falsified by those wish to cover up there sickening crimes, for which they feel no shame. The question must be asked, what would have happened if the film had been completed and released at that time, earlier, or later.
Would we have believed the Nazis lies and accepted their hatred for others? The propagandists’ manipulation of their half-million prisoners was clear, by showing numerous outtakes of the same ‘scene’, posing and re-posing the Jews to fit perfectly into their twisted film. The film crew posed somewhat well-dressed Jewish women by a restaurant and ignoring the children that begged for food; to show the supposed callousness by the ‘wealthy’ Jews. To indicate that the Jews were treated well, living in simply a ‘secluded paradise’, yet they were also callous towards those who had less. Showing that the Nazis were being ‘charitable’, even to such ‘cruel’ people as the Jews. The out and out lies are utterly disgusting. During the film, it cuts back and forth to a movie theater showing a few Jewish people observing. Near the end of “A Film Unfinished”, we see the bodies of small children, the tiny feet. One woman observing the film says “I am human now, now I can cry”, she hides her face repeatedly from the screen, afraid of the heartbreaking horror. Throughout cutting back to the observers, we hear comments such as “When did you ever see a flower? We would have eaten a flower!”
The fact that the Nazis created such ridiculous lies, expecting others to believe their film, indicates again that the Nazis viewed any other human as a lesser being, just varying extents of their levels of disgust towards them. As we watch the Jews in the streets being filmed, their sunken cheeks and darkened eyes, one cannot help but receive chills. The people who had their lives, their dignity and self-respect stolen, still held onto their faith, and hope. As you watch the people in the streets eye the cameramen, it seems that there is no emotion through their eyes, only numbness. The survivors reflect on losing their families, everything being ripped away from them. It is horrifying and hard to watch an entire group of people steadily destroyed, but it is also necessary to do so. If we forget even for a second how we must hold together our fellow humans, we have lost more than we can even imagine.