Alexxa Reacts to Schindler's List (1993) | "A TRAGIC MASTERPIECE!" | Canadian Reaction

Edited reaction of Schindler's List (1993).
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Alexxa
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Spoken languages: French, English & Haitian Creole
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:28 Schindler's List Reaction
00:58:07 Commentary

[@Erika-br8xo]

Not only was Goeth a real person but Spielberg actually toned him down a bit because he was afraid people would not belive it was real if he showed how evil and brutal he really was

[@edittheworld-ct5yu]

Saw this when I was in high school with a bunch of friends. We took a van 30 miles to the closest theater showing it. The whole ride home was in complete silence.

[@AlexxaReacts]

I don't blame you, this movie is devastating 😭 Thank you for watching and commenting 💛

[@ninjacat4929]

You are so right this movie should remind us to be better !!

[@sw7833]

@@ninjacat4929 sadly they didn't remember and are now the oppressors who are committing genocide!

[@ThatsAwinner]

Hi @Alexxareacts, my great aunts and uncles where murdered during the holocaust! As such I’ve always made it a mission to watch, read, and personally heard as many testimonials from survivors as I could handle. To understanding what my family and the my Jewish brethren went through only 75+ years ago. The thing said by every survivor in the name of someone they held in their hands whirls they died or right before they did was “remember me, make sure people know what happened to us”. This is how the saying “never forget” came from. I’ve watched dozens of reaction videos to Schindlers list, and I know they are looking down on those who do smiling knowing they will not be forgotten! I have to say, your reaction was one of the purest and sincere reactions I’ve seen and am thankful you took on this burden even though early on you seemed scared to go further because of how dark the starting of the movie was. You did a good deed. May the lord repay you!

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much for this comment! Blessings to you and to your family! Sending love your way! 💛

[@samsignorelli]

Having the survivors place stones on the actual grave of Oskar Schindler -- alongside the actors who played them in the film -- was genius film making and a kick in the crotch emotionally.

[@AlexxaReacts]

You described it perfectly! That's exactly how it felt! 😭

[@micheletrainor1601]

The little girl in the red coat is actually a memory of Aurdrey Hepburns ( a movie icon she is and she worked with the allied forces as a spy during the war). She spoke of the little girl to Spielberg as she said " through the darkness of people screaming and crying she saw this beautiful little girl in red" she said " it was the look on her face that haunted miss Hepburn as she said she wasnt crying considering everyone else was shouting and screaming. She had a look on her face that seemed to indicate that something horrendous had happened to her and she knew what was going to happennext. It was like she had accepted her fate as she was thrown into a train car by the SS officer who was carrying her. It was something that haunted her all her life. Stephen Spielberg wanted to honour the child and to say no one should ever be forgotten. This movie should be shown in school as part of history class so people know what happened (many deny this atrocity the holocaust didnt happen) and that it should NEVER happen again. Sadly around the world things like this still happen like the genocide in Rawanda ( truly horrific) china ( killing people for having religion, any religion), north korea ( hell on earth ), Yemen ( starving a whole race of people). It seems NOBODY has learned anything at all from this.

[@AlexxaReacts]

This is all so sad and heartbreaking. Thank you for your comments. 💛

[@Mr.Pickles519]

This is probably the best, most respectful reaction Ive ever seen to this movie. You listened and you didn't make it about you. Most importantly, you dont watch this movie to be entertained, theres no entertainment in it. You watch it to be informed. And not chopping up the movie into a hundred 10 second scenes, letting the longer important scenes play in their entirety, that was amazing. Thank you.

[@AlexxaReacts]

I really appreciate your comment! Thank you so much for watching it with me 💛❤️

[@denisobrien4253]

I recommend that you look for a book "My Grandfather would have shot me". The author Jennifer Tiege biological parents were a German woman and a Nigerian man. She was adopted as a child and had limited contact with her biological mother in her childhood and lost contact after about age 7.She grew up in Germany and after high school spent several years in Israel. After returning to Germany got married and became a mother. The at age 38 when visiting the library discovered a book written about being the child of Nazi. As she flipped through the pages she recognized pictures of two women. The younger women was her biological mother and the older her grandmother. She discovered her Grandfather was Amon Gothe.

[@stevegrossman3371]

I have heard her speak. The book was great and its a story that is too unlikely to believe but it is true

[@tookitogo]

Thanks for suggesting that book. I’d heard of it before and totally forgot about it. I just put in an inter library loan request for it.

[@pangkaji]

20:51 "He needs to die. Not just die but die very very painfully" if it makes you feel better, the real Amon Göth was hanged 3 times. The first attempt the rope broke. The second time the hook from which the rope hing broke. After fixing it, the third time was a charm. You can find the video on KZbin. It is poetic justice for him trying to execute Rabbi Levetoff for not making hinges fast enough.

[@AlexxaReacts]

That is so satisfying! Thank you for this anecdote. I'll sleep better tonight knowing this fact! Thanks for watching 💛

[@sianne79]

The video on youtube is not of Amon Geoth but Dr. Ludwig Fischer, another camp commander. Goeth's hanging was not filmed.

[@johannesstaudenrauss8168]

​@@AlexxaReacts The daughter of Amon Goeth was in love with an GI. She got a daughter who is black. Her name is Jennifer Teege. She wrote the book 'Amon, my Grandfather would shoot me'

[@StarShipGray]

I took a class my senior year in college called The Holocaust in Film and Literature. This movie was a major part of the curriculum. I’ll never forget the final exam. It was this single essay question: “With everything you have seen and read this semester, why do think so many otherwise ordinary people could willingly participate in the Holocaust?” I answered: “I hope I never learn the answer to this question because I’d never be able to stop crying.” I got an A.

[@AlexxaReacts]

😢😢😢😢

[@danc1897]

I give your answer both an A and an F lol

[@davidricks7128]

I found the ending so beautiful were the actual survivors placed the stones on the grave were accompanied by the actors who played them in the film amazing tribute to an amazing person

[@AlexxaReacts]

Me too!! Thinking about it brings tears to my eyes all over again 😭😭

[@glstka5710]

The character arch in this is great. Oscar Schindler starts out as a opportunistic schemer and over the course of the movie you see his humanity grow.

[@chriskelly3481]

"We all bleed red." ....I love you.

[@AlexxaReacts]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@micheletrainor1601]

They really had to tone done Amon Goeth as he was truly evil 😈. They toned him down as they thought nobody would believe how truly evil he was. Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth took time in between takes to comfort the Schindler Jews on set as his performance and mannerisms were so much like him it caused some of them to have panic attacks, flashbacks. If u ever watch footage of him its insane how close he was.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Oh wow! That's insane. Thank you for this information Michele!

[@user-us5pv8zw3z]

The soundtrack is hauntingly beautiful. The violins sound like they’re weeping.

[@dawngeisler6393]

Had an extremely strong reaction of anger for a reason I didn't foresee. Every person comparing someone who enforced wearing a mask to a nazi, or to shoveling the dead bodies into the crematorium,²²

[@AlexxaReacts]

I can definitely understand that anger!

[@theConquerersMama]

Something that comes back to me from listening to a survivor as a child was him describing the constant mind-numbing hunger that made it almost impossible to think clearly and flattened all your feelings. The daily calorie allowance in the Krakow ghetto for a worker was 650 calories. 650. For those not working, it was less. That's an aspect that movies are not always able to capture. That beyond the constant fear, the crippling hunger. The illness, pain, and exhaustion of starving to death. Losing teeth, wounds no healing, every illness becoming worse. And trying to stay emotionally regulated enough to function and manage to live. I dont know how they did it.

[@user-us5pv8zw3z]

Thank you for writing this.

[@AlexxaReacts]

That just broke my heart even more. 🥺

[@danc1897]

I would say that by definition a "Nazi" who saved Jews and spent millions doing so can legitimately say he was not actually a Nazi. He was wise to keep his membership because it was perfect cover.

[@Ira88881]

History is not black and white. He was actually a spy for the Nazis in Czechoslovakia /the Sudentland, before the U.K. ceded that land to Germany as appeasement. (As if the U.K. had the right.) But Schindler wasn’t motivated by anti-Semitic values at the time. He was naive, no doubt, and despite Hitler’s constant pronunciations against the Jews, and Slavs, no one could predict it would come to this slaughter. (Churchill did!) So his story is about about going with the Nazi flow, and then making a moral decision to do a turnaround. But he was certainly a Nazi in the beginning.

[@zachnesmith]

There is no preparation for this gut punch of a film.

[@AlexxaReacts]

None whatsoever 😭

[@StephanieMaireFaith]

Yes Amon Göth is a real person, one of the survivors who at the end of the movie saw Ralph Fiennes dressed as Amon Göth she took a panic atk and could not be around Ralph while he was dressed up,

[@sianne79]

As of March 2021, the number of descendants is nearly 12000, almost double what it was in 1993 This is a heavy, heavy film that has to be watched. No one's ready for it. The witness is always a silent one.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much for info! I appreciate you 💛

[@theinvicta957]

Hi Alexa :) Im a girl from Portugal and this event in History has always had my interest peaked since a very young age due too the sheer horror of it all and how fairly recent it was. Because I never understood how we, as fellow humans can be so hateful and cruel to each other :( As an european we learn extensively about this when in school. While I watched your reaction it felt like I was looking at a mirror. I'm a very sensitive person, always been. When you became specialy bothered and said "Dont kill the baby, please" it was like seeing myself in a mirror. Having the same reaction. I think this special sensitivity and emotion for those who are most inocent and frail is missing in the world. Being able to place ourselves in someone shoes. Thanks a lot for your reaction. And God bless you a lot ❤️ Sending lots of love to you

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much for your sweet comment. May God bless you and your sweet soul too! ❤️

[@AlexxaReacts]

This one was a tough one. I cried from beginning to end (and in editing 😭)! Thank you so much for recommending it. 💛

[@BlackAcePlays]

It is tough. But imagine that Amon Göth was even more evil than depicted. He loved to set his dogs onto people and if he killed someone, he had this persons whole family killed, to not have dissatisfied people in the Camp. Some witnesses also told that he once had a woman cooked alive as punishment. Spielberg depicted him as less evil, because he feared the crowd would think he was making things up. Have a look at "The pianist" and " The Counterfeiters", also great films.

[@reneerocha1796]

What a beautiful heartfelt reaction to a phenomenal masterpiece. 😢Horrific human beings (if you could call them that) and how compassionate humans can be when their hearts are turned. ❤

[@altonkilbourn1595]

The whole movie was great but the little girl in red coat and the when he breaks down crying about because he didn't get more people out gets me every time and i cry

[@AlexxaReacts]

Heartbreaking! 😭

[@Johann_Demian]

This is the best movie i've ever seen. From Brazil.

[@lizgreer6888]

Your reaction to this is amazing. Your words at the end are eloquent and so enlightened. Just an amazing reaction. This movie is one you watch once, maybe twice and never again because it stays for a lifetime and is so incredibly difficult to watch.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Liz! This means a lot 💛💛

[@Marcel_Germann]

-They actually made Göth less evil in the movie than he really was. They thought no one watching the movie would believe that such an evil person really existed. -When the actor Ralph Fiennes, that portrayed Göth, was wearing the first time the uniform at the set Mila Pfefferberg, serving as adviser for the movie, had a mental breakdown due to the similarity in looks between Fiennes and Göth. -Jennifer Teege, daughter of Monika Kalder and a Nigerian student with whom Monika had a short-term relationship, discovered that the mothers name was actually changed by her grandmother from Göth to Kalder (maiden name of the grandmother). She wrote a book and named it "Amon - My grandfather would have shot me". -Ralph Fiennes also portrayed Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies. -The worst thing is, these were not mad men or sociopaths. They were normal people able to do these horrible things. Hannah Arendt wrote a book about this, after she was watching the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961. Eichmann was a normal person, so normal he was almost boring. They nicknamed him the "accountant of death". She wrote a book about it and called it "The banality of evil".

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Steven Spielberg is the greatest living director. His films in many different genres (E.T., Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, West Side Story, Amistad, Lincoln) are all spectacular. Everything he puts his hands on becomes an epic. This is certainly another jewel in his crown.

[@laminage]

I saw this at The Cinema with my Mother. We once lived in a Community with Jewish Folks and my Mother worked for a Jewish Man. He was very nice to her. I saw Escape From Sobibor, The Anne Frank Movies, and The Hiding Place, but this was a Masterpiece.

[@sweetwater156]

One of my most favorite possessions is a single frame of the original movie reel. It had the girl in the red coat in it. It cost a lot of money but I was a young kid with a lot of disposable income. My parents said I had to work… but they never said how I can spend my money. I acquired a lot of strange artifacts and rare books when I was younger. I’ve got a set of China from the Titanic. A book signed by the last emperor Tsar of Russia.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Sounds like a lovely and cool collection 😊

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

If you aren't in tears by the end of this film, you aren't a human being/

[@grumpyguts1967]

a masterpiece of film making, and one everybody should watch.. like you said it’s very draining emotionally. but an important part of history.. i agreed with every thing you said on your breakdown of the film at the end, we’re all the same underneath.

[@markusfiebelkorn2730]

I am German and am always reminded of the deeds of my grandfathers. Germany deals very well with its past. Precisely because we have a special responsibility. What is forgotten in other countries that are no less to blame for wars and mass killings.

[@jnagarya519]

Between 1937 and 1945 the Japanese slaughtered upwards of 16 million Chinese. Will a film be made about that holocaust?

[@stesrad]

@@jnagarya519 Excellent point ! 👍

[@alistairwalker7947]

@@jnagarya519 there is at least one with christian bale

[@jnagarya519]

@@alistairwalker7947 Yes -- by Zhang Yimou. And it shows a Japanese soldier as sympathetic -- a FICTION.

[@jnagarya519]

@@alistairwalker7947 But it isn't factual; and isn't about John Rabe.

[@BarleyC]

Thank you for reacting to this. Subscribed.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you for watching and for subbing! 💛

[@omanipadmeum7319]

Some scenes were not shot at all. Goeths crimes were so cruel, sadistic and inhumane that the producers thought the viewers might perceive them as constructed only for the film, thus damaging the whole work. I am German and the so-called "German culture of remembrance" is a matter of course in our country. Every day, for example, there are documentaries on at least two channels that show the background of how Hitler was able to lever out parliament to come to power, the crimes of the GESTAPO (Secret state police) in their torture cellars, the deportation of the Jews, underlaid with original images from the concentration camps, the cruelest war crimes of the SS, which followed the Wehrmacht on the campaign and then brought unimaginable suffering to the rest of the population, which was also filmed at the time. (Some already in color, which makes the whole thing seem even more bizarre). Trenches, on the edges of which Jews were killed by the hundreds with shots to the neck, etc., etc., etc. In the German extermination camps, the women and children were gassed first, so that no more Jews could be born and grow up. Very few Germans wanted to have known about the concentration camps, which of course was complete nonsense. For example, thousands of apartments were suddenly vacant because the Jewish residents had been deported during the night. The very next day, "Aryan" Germans, mostly belonging to the party cadre, moved in. Then hundreds of civilian German guards were employed in the death camps, who were even proud of their "work" and bragged about it to their acquaintances and friends. I could give many more examples, which prove that it was total bullshit, when it was claimed not to have seen anything and not to know what was happening there. In any case, I am a little proud of the fact that in Germany, even more than 75 years after the war, these unimaginable crimes against humanity have been and are being dealt with.

[@AlexxaReacts]

This is so sad and infuriating. The ability for cruelty that we have as human beings horrifies me. Your last sentence gives me hope. These crimes need to be dealt with, and more importantly, we need to remember these crimes so we don't commit them again. Thank you for your comment and for watching 💛

[@omanipadmeum7319]

@@AlexxaReactsI fully agree with you and also keep thinking about the cruelties of which mankind is capable. There are also "Stolpersteine". Small memorial plaques set into the ground, so-called Stolpersteine, are intended to commemorate the fate of people who were persecuted, murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide during the National Socialist era. The square brass plaques with rounded corners and edges are inscribed with letters hammered in by hand with a hammer and punch, indicating, for example, who was deported in that house. They are usually set into the sidewalk or the surface of the respective sidewalk at the same level in front of the last freely chosen homes of Nazi victims. On December 29, 2019, the 75,000th Stolperstein was laid in Memmingen.

[@AlexxaReacts]

@@omanipadmeum7319 😢

[@nancyaubry3020]

Very interesting. Is that true that Schindler's list is screened to children at schools ?

[@omanipadmeum7319]

@@nancyaubry3020 In Germany and Austria, the film was used in the context of political education as a means of teaching about the Holocaust. Starting in March 1994, the film became the main topic in history classes at many German schools. Many German cinemas held morning screenings for schoolchildren, some opened by contemporary witnesses such as Simon Wiesenthal and Ignatz Bubis. In Austria, politicians and education officials carried out a nationwide campaign, with the exception of Styria, in which they enabled schoolchildren aged 14 and older to see the film in classes at reduced prices, sometimes free of charge, and which was also financially supported by companies. Around 150,000 young people saw the film as a result. The German Conference of Education Ministers also recommended the use of the film as a teaching tool.

[@squashedeyeball]

Bless you Alexxa! You are a gem of a person. Long comment, but I tried to only add on what is shown. And it's important to know. Will post a second one with the rest :) Spielberg did intend to make the film watchable by all, hence we saw it even at the age of 10. The levels of atrocity were kept to a bear minimum for this purpose. If he stayed true to the testimonies, the movie would've been way too graphic for any age. 14:50 The Germans even dissected the bodies, for hidden jewelry. Everything else, including the women's long hair, was sent back to Germany. Ilse Koch, the bestial wife of Otto Koch (commander of Buchenwald and later of concertation/extermination camp Majdanek), even used skins for creating lamps. There were lots of illegal looting of these "goods", by the guards and officers. Stealing the "Reich's property" was punishable by death. And so, Otto Koch was caught and executed by the SS for that reason. 29:02 In reality, this building at the Plaszow complex, used to be a synagogue, that the Germans decided to turn into stables. Like many others that they destroyed, burned with everyone inside them, or turned into pig dens, and even into whore houses. In the same contempt, they used many tombstones as material for construction. The whole layout of Plaszow is in fact very massive. Nowadays almost nothing is left. But there are information posts at every area of the camp. The film was shot not far from the real camp's ground. 35:00 This was meant to be the big children transport of Plaszow. In reality, it was one of the most savage events in camp. A lot more brutal than anything that could be shown on screen. The parents were beaten to death when they tried to reach their kids, and the children were snatched and cramped into the train cars. All of them were butchered shortly after.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Squashedeyeball for your comments. Thank you for the added information, it helps understand the atrocities that occurred. I'm truly thankful for you. This is one of the reasons I started this channel, to be able to relate to other people and subject matters (and movies) that impact us all. 💛

[@squashedeyeball]

@@AlexxaReacts Oh God bless you Alexxa! Loved every bit of your thoughts and words. Glad to be here :)

[@petedub5360]

Very respectful reaction thank you Alexxa ❤

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much, and thank you for watching! ❤️

[@Shell2164]

You have a big heart Alexxa ❤ loved your reaction to this emotional film.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Shelley! Thank you for watching and commenting 💛❤️

[@BridewellSeniorTube]

The movie was based on the original book, "Schindler's Ark" :)

[@jeffwellman8347]

Very good reaction and analysis. (Subbed)

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Jeff! Welcome to the family! 💛

[@melanieparker]

The real Goeth was hanged three times because the rope kept breaking.

[@akshelby33]

It’s an absolutely gut wrenching movie. Thank you for watching it and bearing witness.

[@AlexxaReacts]

💛

[@lipazdotan4021]

What a reaction, Alexxa. Truly appriciating your emotion and sensibility on this. This movie really cuts into your soul. Just a few details that add to the emotions: * The quote engraved in the ring, which Stern says aloud is a bit different, but in the same spirit- "Therefore, Adam was created alone in the world, to teach that he who loses one soul is exalted over him as if he had lost the world entire; and he who who sustains one soul is exalted over him as if he sustained the world entire". * It is says in the end credits that Schindler was declaired a "righteous man". The exact term we use in Hebrew is "Chasid Unot Ha'olam", which translate to "A righteous among the world's nations" or "A righteous Gentile". It the greatest badge of honor that any Jew can give another non-Jewish person. Even these days, hearing someone refered to as 'A righteous Gentile' brings immediate sense of awe and honor. * It was said in the past, and is a story that I heard from my own family. The Hebrew word for 'Poland' is 'Polin'. However, among some Jewish people, mostly European and Holocaust survivors, they call the place "Polanya". It comes ffrom the combined words "Po-Lan-Yah" which translate to "Here God (fell) asleep".

[@AlexxaReacts]

Golly!! Yep, this hit me in all the feels! Thank you so much for this added context, and for watching. I appreciate you Lipaz! 💛

[@imgonnatouchyouniceandslow]

Cried right with you 🩷

[@AlexxaReacts]

💛

[@Ira88881]

Thank you for not just having such a big heart, but having a BRAIN. You understood everything as it was unfolding. But please understand this: Don’t ever compare anyone, even those on the far right, to Nazis.

[@tookitogo]

What about the ones who _literally_ espouse Nazi ideologies? The right has shown itself to be, um, rather accommodating of those folks…

[@sweetwater156]

I’m only halfway into your reaction and if you’re already crying by 1942… it’s gonna get worse. Spielberg did this story justice. You’ve made me cry more than the reaction I watched from the German girl who completely lost her shit from anger watching this. The guy who played Amon goeth, the guy you want to die painfully, also played Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. He’s a great actor for a villain character.

[@AlexxaReacts]

I was a mess watching this movie 😭

[@MomCatMeows]

My high school history teacher took our whole class to this when it was in the theater. Personally I think everyone should watch this to learn and understand what happened to the Jews. That's how we keep history from repeating itself. 💔

[@AlexxaReacts]

I agree wholeheartedly!

[@Bill_Jones.]

You did a great reaction to this movie.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Bill! 💛

[@rebekahmichelle8185]

Amazing job 🎉🎉🎉love it!!

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you friend! 💛❤️

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

Your words at the end are truly beautiful ❤

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much! ❤️💛

[@videonewsletter]

Thank you. I cried with you. You're sweet, sensitive, and insightful 🌹

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much for watching this with me ❤️💛

[@TriciaAnn86]

I knew a woman who was like Helen but she was only 9 years old when it happened ... Of course they took her babe when born. The woman I knew was German and Russian... The Russian were to them as the Jewish ... She found her daughter when she eventually came to US but the pain was so harsh ... No none of any of this should happen the people need to not take the negative in Life we should ALL prosper

[@AlexxaReacts]

This just broke my heart all over again. I'm so sorry to hear about that woman's suffering. Atrocities like these should never happen. 🥺

[@emilianosintarias7337]

The germans studies the genocide of the native americans and decided to do the same to the Russians. They called it "living space", the idea was after the genocide of the jews they would set up German colonies in eastern Europe and Russia . The considered they Slavs an inferior race.

[@miamicool666]

Thank you for this duty of memory.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank YOU for watching 💛

[@miamicool666]

@@AlexxaReacts 👋😉💛

[@squashedeyeball]

Third comment

[@AlexxaReacts]

I definitely will! Thank you again for being a wealth of information! 💛

[@squashedeyeball]

@@AlexxaReacts Thank you

[@jackcatlow3716]

It’s hard to think what humans can do to other humans . Some of the victims of the Holocaust are still alive . All we can do is learn from it.

[@charliedalogs8093]

hello since Mexico and thanks for reacts…. :)

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you for watching and commenting Charlie! 💛

[@Serai3]

No one is ever ready for this movie.

[@aranerem5569]

Nice to see you

[@johnwest8928]

The children were useless to them,so they would be destroyed.

[@danielhead8123]

Spielbergs most personal masterpiece with his Jewish heritage

[@AlexxaReacts]

Indeed! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 💛

[@danielhead8123]

I hope you react to his film's Lincoln, bridge of spies,Munich

[@AlexxaReacts]

@@danielhead8123 I'm adding them to my list!! 😁

[@michaelmcbreen4025]

Alexa I would just like to say your reaction to this Steven Spielberg's masterpiece of true facts of the atrocity's the nazi's done to the Jewish nation was just heartbreaking and commendable you are truly a great spirit and a kind soul god bless you.💕

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you so much Michael! This means more to me than you know 💛

[@sw7833]

As heinous and brutal as history is what is really awful is how many young people ate not being taught history and have no idea and that in Israel they have forgotten and are now committing genocide of another people!

[@bencohen1644]

What is really awful is how ignorant and simple minded people are that they so easily and quickly attach the title "genocide" to anything that's not a walk in the park. Wars are always terrible, they never look good, they always involve deaths and they're always tragic. Not every war and not every killing is a genocide. To draw a parallel between the horrors of the Holocaust and what's going on in Gaza now means that either you're ignorant of what went on then, ignorant of what's going on now, or both.

[@julianaFinn]

I wish I could say this was in the past and history but it's still going on. 😪

[@AlexxaReacts]

😢💛

[@bw8349]

You are a good reviewer.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Aww! Thank you so much! 💛

[@JoeNienaberNienaber]

good job

[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you!

[@johnwest8928]

The little girl in red is a Polish volunteer in the Ukraine today.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Wow! Full circle moment. 💛

[@emilianosintarias7337]

that's so sad, I don't judge her but c'mon, what a foolish irony and tragedy

[@gk5891]

When Steven Spielberg decided to return to school to finally finish his film degree this is the film he chose to submit for his student film requirement.

[@AlexxaReacts]

What a movie!!!

[@JohnWest-ky9bo]

The little girl in red is now a Polish volunteer in the Ukraine.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

wow that is very sad to hear, my god. She must be dead by now? RIP

[@daedalron]

@@emilianosintarias7337 No, she was not volunteering as a fighter, but helping ukrainian families flee to Poland at the start of the war.

[@squashedeyeball]

45:51 Indeed, sometimes newly registered inmates would be required to take a shower upon arrival, but rarely. The later chambers (youtube banns the term, as crazy as it is), crematoria 2 and 3, were underground and had a massive chamber, for up to 2000 Jews as once. 4 and 5 were above ground, and had 3 small chambers each. There were fake shower heads on the ceiling's horizonal post. In crematoria 2 and 3, it went like this: The Sonderkomnado, Jews who were forced into this unit, were made to take care of all the properties of the crematoria. The Guards would be the enforcers and operators. You go down the stairs to the undressing room. After you tied your shoes together and piled your cloths as directed, you'll be rushed under a barrage of beatings to take a short turn to the side, into the faux shower chamber. Inside, there are 4 support pillars, and 4 barred pillars, in zigzag. Those barred pillars end in a small chimney each. Into those chimneys the operator would throw in the capsules via an apparatus, and body heat from all the cramped Jews would activate them. Small children and babies would be thrown on top the heads of everyone inside, in the "sardine" technique. The death is excruciating and slow, of violent suffocation. After between 15 to 20 minutes, the operator will look into chamber through a glass peep hole (protected by bars), to check whether everyone is dead. Then, the gas would be cleared from the chimneys (vents would help that too). The bodies were then taken to a small room at the other side of the cellar. There, they would be dissected for hidden Jewelry, their hair cut and kept, and arranged separately (men, women, children/babies). In the meanwhile, the chamber will be cleaned and prepared for the next batch. Then, all bodies will be taken up a lift to the ground level, where the ovens are. There, they will be stored in a small room and burned in turn. The ash would either be buried in the nearby ashpits or thrown in the river. During the extermination of the Hungary Jewry, the ovens could not stand such massive amounts of Jews. The SS also had to reopen the two oldest chambers of Birkenau, "the little red house" and "the little white house". They were not "high tech" like Crematoria II and III, but they murdered tens of thousands ofJews before the new Crematoria were constructed. That was when the commander of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoss, appointed Otto Moll to be the head of all Crematoria. Moll had fire ditches dug behind crematoria 4 and 5, to help the burning process. Into these ditches, he enjoyed throwing women and children to be burned alive, after abusing them for fun. Or lashing his dogs at them and chasing them into these fires. Eyewitnesses also tell of his delight in reckless, sadistic tortures, and in stomping and punching children and babies to death (and that's a "game" that was very common, all throughout The Holocaust). Btw, the most accurate, on screen depiction of the Crematoria II and III of Birkenau, can be found on the miniseries "War and Remembrance". Of course, it also had to "be easy" with the brutality, but the process, and layout of the complex and it's placement in the camp, all are very well adapted.

[@NoHandleGrr]

Still, far and away the best history is in documentaries and books, not fictionalizations.

[@squashedeyeball]

@@NoHandleGrr That goes without saying.

[@AlexxaReacts]

This is heartbreaking! I pray and hope we never get back to that place.

[@AlexxaReacts]

I concur!

[@squashedeyeball]

@@AlexxaReacts We'll make sure we won't 🙏

[@billrab1890]

Great job reacting to this. I was struck by the comment that you made after the movie the jist of it being that people have the potential to commit horrible acts of evil. If you want to see an interesting take on that I highly recommend watching a 7 to 10 minute clip taken from a longer lecture given by Dr. Jordan Peterson where he tells his students that you probably would have been a nazi. He explains that people tend to look at history as though they would be the hero that saves everyone or the victim of the atrocity. The point that he makes is that the people who committed these crimes against humanity were people just like all of us and that we all have that inside of us. If we we were in that situation the odds are we would have most likely been complicit to the horrors if not active participants. We all want to believe that we would do the right thing but we don't know unless we are in that circumstance. Watching a documentary years ago I saw an interview with a US Army infantry captain who helped liberate a concentration camp. He told a local German citizen who said to him that there was nothing he could do about it that if there was a camp like that in his hometown in the USA he hoped that he would have the courage to be in the camp as a prisoner rather than to turn a blind eye.

[@AlexxaReacts]

I will definitely check it out! Thank you for your comments and suggestions! 💛

[@mortisrat]

I've always likened it to school. The bullies are the people who would have been leading the atrocities. If they'll harm people for free, and for fun - they'll be first in line to be paid for it. It's a small group of the total. Most would be like the majority in school. They know who the bullies are but will ignore what they're doing, so long as it's not being done to them. If you've not stepped in to stop a bully, risking a little social awkwardness, let's not pretend you'd risk your life to protect someone. Those who actually stepped in to protect someone are the ones who fought against the nazis. Tiny group. Not even one for each school. It's human nature taken to extremes, but people are who they are.

[@michaausleipzig]

"With no dignity" you said... "Human dignity is inviolable. To respect and protect it is the duty all governing power." Article 1 of Germany's constitution after the war... This and the following articles that establish all human rights as directly applicable law are valid for eternity, meaning that this segment of our constitution can never be changed or abolished by any law or any majority vote. Never again!

[@emilianosintarias7337]

West Germany after the war actually kept and saved several nazis, some were allowed to emigrate to the US as well. East Germany on the othe hand cleaned house of their ex nazis.

[@El1s4b3th]

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[@AlexxaReacts]

Thank you bestie! ❤️❤️❤️

[@obdiane]

Can you please react to " A Time to Kill' with Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, and Samual L Jackson., please and, thank you. Blessings

[@AlexxaReacts]

Added the list! 😁💛

[@johnwest8928]

Close to 70,000000 people died during the war.

[@Sd-cl6of]

Better late than never.

[@AlexxaReacts]

🤷🏾‍♀️

[@jasminlechner2909]

Yeah terrible. That is why we consider Nazi the N word in Austria it should not be said slightly cause no damage is equal to that amount of pain(calling somebody a Nazi just because he votes the right sight would be such an example u can not compare this disaster of the past to something more simple). Even though nobody of today is responsible for the actions of the past, we need to learn from it! We should not feel guilt but feel responsible to strike down something like that as soon as we notice it. Anybody( no matter where he is from or how he looks like) who says something discriminatory against any culture/ race/ ethnicity or religion must be stoped straightaway!!!

[@lordflashheart3680]

An important film, especially now with the far right on the rise globally.

[@Pantherking916]

You need to understand some things from the average German perspective of the time. Imagine you have been in the bloodbath of the First World War for 4 long years without a single German soldier being on home soil when hostilities end and you are blamed for the war and your economy is subsequently crippled by reparations set by the loathed Versailles Treaty. Then, after a time of relative prosperity, the Wall Street Crash hits and where once a loaf of bread in 1928 cost some 20 marks, by the end of 1932, the same loaf of bread cost over 500 million marks! Now, at the height of all this nation humiliation, with ruling political parties incapable of offering, never mind finding, any practical solution to your nations problems, imagine a lone voice offering you some national pride and a job and a convenient scapegoat for all your woes aka the jew. Now imagine that upon election, there are now jobs for all, you can afford to feed your family and there is finally a restoration of some national pride and the despised Versailles Treaty is, for all intents and purposes, torn up, as a program of national rearmament is started along with a national system of roads - the autobahn. Now up the ante - huge numbers of your number one enemy, the reason you have suffered for so long, is found living next door (Poland) and your government sends in troops to not only remove your enemy but also give you more living space.......I give you World War Two.

[@AlexxaReacts]

Perspective is always good.

[@ninjacat4929]

Every generation should see this fil to remind them of how things ended up whenthe Jewish people are being blamed for things .Horrifying to think this is all true !

[@AlexxaReacts]

Yes! This movie should be mandatory in school!

[@room2180]

The Girl in the red coat, Oliwia Dabrowska, helped Ukrainians flee to Poland, after the Russian Invasion. A testament to Human love and respect.

[@BogeyDopeYT]

What gets me is people know the history of these socialist parties, yet everyday you see people thinking they’d be better off with a socialist government. Either they forgot, or they don’t know. This is how it always ends up. Suffering, because they thought they could have something for nothing. This lesson needn’t be learned multiple times.

[@emilianosintarias7337]

what are you talking about, the n-zis were hyper capitalists, they murdered socialists in those overns, and the jewish socialists were right all along - as you can see from the failed experiments of nationalism. Also socialism is not a form of government.

[@tookitogo]

You do realize that the Nazi party, regardless of the name it gave itself, was not socialist, but fascist? The “socialist” in the nazi party name is basically as ironic as the “democratic” in DPRK (the official name of North Korea).

[@gilfinzi922]

please SUPPORT ISRAEL, us jews, we will survive

[@AlexxaReacts]

Praying for peace and healing 💛🙏🏾

[@3282ramirez]

What did they do for these people to act like this? Don’t be slow… there is always a reason .WHAT HAPPENED. Because it can happen again

[@AlexxaReacts]

I agree that things like this can indeed happen again.