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For my second WWII movie, I watched Defiance. I would give Defiance 5 out of 5. It showed the struggles this camp went through while Germany was under control of the Nazis. Defiance in my opinion is a great movie to show the struggles Jew went through throughout the entire War. This movie is based on a true story. The movie started with a Nazi rade where the soldiers were taking jews from their homes and killing any that refused to go with them. Two of the Bielski brothers Zus and Asael were hiding in the forest until the nazis left the village. They return to their home to find their parents have been killed. Then they go and get the youngest brother from a hidden cellar in their house and head into the forest to hide from the germans. The oldest brother stumbs onto them later on and they start to build a camp. The youngest wanders off and find more Jews hiding in the forest. He brings them to the camp so that his brothers can help them. Tuvia the oldest brother is sent to get food and a pistol to take revenge on the soldier who killed thier parents. He goes to a non-jewish family friend for some help, while he is there he find out who killed his parents and he also agrees to help more jew that were hiding in a barn. Tuvia gets his revenge by killing the soldier and his two sons. The some refugees raid farms to find food to support the rest of the camp. Zus and Tuvia disagree about what to do as winter comes, So Zus and other men leave the camp to go fight for the Soviet army. The Soviet partisans agree to protect the Jewish camp. The group continues to grow after bringing jews in from the ghettos. The camp survives a winter of sickness, starvation, attempted betrayal and constant hiding, but they soon find out that the Germans are planning to attack the camp. The soviet partisans refuse to help the Jews and they leave them to fend for themselves. Knowing of the attack they plan a defense leaving Asael and many more men to defend as long as they can but that doesn't last very long and only Asael and one other survive to rejoin the group further along. They continue to run but in their way is a huge marsh that seems almost immpossible to cross but with a little rope and belts they make it down the marsh. After exiting the marsh they are attacked my german on the other side. At this moment is feels like this is the end but the germans are attacked from behind by a partisan led by Zus who left the soviet retreat to return to them and protect. The movie ends by saying that they lived in the forest for another two years. They built a hospital and a school. The Beilski brothers saved 1,200 Jews in this camp. Also, Asael joined the Soviet Army and was soon killed in action. Tuvia and Zus survived the war and emigrated to America to form a successful trucking firm in New York City. It also states that the Bielski brothers never sought recognition for what they did, and that the descendants of the people they saved now number in the tens of thousands.

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