Analysis Of The Pianist

When considering the Holocaust in its totality, historian Nora Levin believes that such an atrocity is without parallel; a perspective that can be supported by the detailed accuracy of the dramatizations that have been made based on the events of this tragedy. The extreme cruelty, destructive political and racial ideology, size of the human slaughter and overall insensitivity of the world are characteristics that make this act of cruelty, an event than can never be compared to. In The Pianist, individuals were throwing themselves out of windows or poison themselves when they felt that the time had come to be deported to a concentration camp and possibly executed in the gas chamber, so that they could at least die with dignity instead of being shot down in the street like a rabid dog or being deported to an unknown location with an uncertain future. This act of desperation is
During one of the transports from the ghetto to a concentration camp, the train was stopped at the same location as that of a train carrying injured German officers. When one of the officers stepped onto the platform and realized what was going on, he immediately ordered the Ukrainians to open the cattle cars and let the Jews out so that they could clean themselves up with the water that he provided them because he was disgusted and horrified by what he saw. This description alone is a clear indication of the extreme cruelty experienced by the Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, the elderly and the disabled at the hands of the SS because of the destructive and racial ideology of the Third Reich. Never before and never since has any group of people been forced to do what these particular groups of individuals had to. The fat of the exterminated has never had to be used to make soap or their remains dissected to acquire any gold or anything of value that may not have been obtained at the round