These large sites for torturing, mutilating and murdering Jewish, Polish and non-Aryan (not of European heritage) prisoners; this would be known as the Final Solution. Over six million Jews were killed, in a systemic extermination, while the total number of casualties during Hitler’s reign pushed roughly eleven million. In Schindlers List we see a powerful story of a man tied between the Nazi party and spending his life owns to save over a thousand Jews from these concentration camps. The story is about Oskar Schindler, who started off owning a factory on the outskirts of a Jewish Ghetto, a German policy to control the Jewish population. In this factory he employed a large number of Jewish labourers, as a means to profiteer and exploited them. However Schindler’s view of the Nazi regime changes when he sees the ghetto and later the mass burning of Jews, already gassed from the concentration …show more content…
Hitler now depicted a crumbling man, he was weak and his army was losing. The later months of his reign were now becoming challenging for Hitler, as he would rather die then surrender. As the Russians continued to move closer to Berlin, Hitler was losing control of his supporters, and tension was at an all time high. This can been seen in the film The Downfall. In the movie it is obvious that the last few weeks in Hitler’s bunker were a turning point in the war. As the Allied troops advanced further and further in Germany, the bloodshed continued and innocent Germany civilians were caught up in the fighting, so many citizens choose to flee, die or take their live. In the last scenes of the film we see the true struggles in the bunker. Everyone in the bunker was morbid and was either drinking themselves to death of thinking about killing themselves. This morbid attitude came to an end in late 1945 when Hitler along with other close supporters, including his wife Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels committed suicide. They did this so they would avoid the consequences of their actions. The death of Hitler brought with it the surrender of Germany, and the liberation of the concentration camps. The vision that the Allied troops saw, within these camps was exposed to the world, and brought with in a dark brand on German