Schindlers List

            
             Holocaust
            
             In the movie the Holocaust, the movie starts with the Weis family wedding, giving a sense of happiness and change. The people getting married are Carl, a Jew and Inga, a German. Their friend is discovered at the wedding to be a Nazi and he warns them of a change that is coming that is going to be for the worse. But Dr. Weis, the pharmacist/doctor of the family, Carl's father, refuses to believe it.
             When the changes start happening, business is going bad for the Jews. Dr. Weis's practice is being taken away from him. He is going to be transported to the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The family stays behind with Inga. The Germans take Carl to a work camp where he gets in trouble and is put under hard labor. Meanwhile, Mrs. Weis and her children are in Inga's house but Inga's parents are Germans and they don't want Jews in their house anymore. And they encourage the Weis women to leave. Inga doesn't want them to go because they are her family too. Carl's little brother leaves to go join the partisans in the resistance. The littlest daughter, has a temper tantrum, runs out of the house, tears off her Jewish star and gets raped. She comes back home to be forever changed.
             She doesn't speak or eat and they think she's sick. Inga takes her to a German doctor where the German doctor suggests she goes to an institute for mentally ill children and they will take care of her and assures them she will be okay there. What they didn't know was that the German's were getting rid of the physically and mentally disabled first before the persecution of the normal Jews. The daughter was killed by Carbon Monoxide Gas. They lead all the people in the institute into a room and filled the room with gas. They told Inga and Mrs. Weis that she died from Pneumonia because she wouldn't eat anything or take any medicine.
             During this time, Dr. Weis was appointe...

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