Their Final Destination

The film we watched last Tuesday, Night and Fog was probably the first documentary I’ve seen on the holocaust. In the beginning it shows people freely filling up these train carts to their final destination. No one had a clue of what or where they’d be going, if so, I highly doubt one would get on those carts of the black transport so willingly. Carts were packed about 100 people per cart. One scene shows this family where it was a father and his three kids. One kid looked about 4 or 5 years old and as he looked directly into the camera it seemed as if he didn’t want to go and it’s as if he knew where he was going wasn’t going to end well for his family. As majority if not all, arrived at their final destination, they were given striped uniforms, tattoos and were shaved. The SS were watching them which means the doctors were also SS. These doctors would experiment on them, doing all types of harsh, unimaginable things to these innocent people. Later in the documentary, it showed those who were too weak to fight for their meals as starving thieves took advantage of the frail. As these photos and footage were shown, it made me feel helpless. I wasn’t thought of while this happened but it’s like these innocent people were treated like this because they were Jewish. They showed those who were decapitated, starved, and those who were regretted getting on the Black Transport. At the end, it was bodies after bodies that were just dropped into ditches. Young, old, man, woman, they were just lifeless and being tossed as if they weren’t once human. One part that sticks to me is when the lady had her eye socket blown out and they just tossed into that pit. Right after her was a man who looked like he’s been shot with a cannon to his back side. The ending images of this documentary were very disturbing but they were real. Knowing that these images were real just makes Hitler look even more evil. I can’t recall who it was who said this but, there were three Nazi’s who went to court and they all said, “I’m not responsible”. That boiled my blood because not only did they help set this entire transport to these camps up but they really wouldn’t fess up to this monstrosity. They caused millions to die and said these three words and were not found guilty, like you took millions of lives and there’s no to own up to their horrendous crimes? Guess it was just too much handle, although taking the lives of innocents wasn’t much.