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Essay / Pianist's Analysis - 717
Considering the Holocaust in its entirety, historian Nora Levin believes that such an atrocity is unprecedented; a perspective that can be supported by the detailed accuracy of the dramatizations that have been made from the events of this tragedy. The extreme cruelty, the destructive political and racial ideology, the scale of the human massacre and the overall callousness of the world are characteristics that make this act of cruelty something that can never be compared to. In The Pianist, individuals threw themselves out of windows or poisoned themselves when they felt 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. to be shot. on the streets like a rabid dog or being deported to an unknown place 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 place as a train carrying wounded German officers. When one of the officers came onto the platform and realized what was happening, he immediately ordered the Ukrainians to open the cattle cars and let the Jews out so that they could clean themselves with the water he provided them. , because he was disgusted and horrified by what he saw. This description alone is a clear indication of the extreme cruelty suffered by Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, the elderly and the disabled at the hands of the SS due to the destructive and racial ideology of the Third Reich. Never before and never since has any group of people been forced to do what those particular groups of individuals had to do. The fat of the exterminated should never have been used to make soap nor their remains dissected to acquire gold or anything of value that could not have been obtained during the round.