Blog Discussion:
The Boy in Striped Pajamas: There is a family living in Germany who moves to Poland because the father is a Nazi in charge of a concentration camp. Their son Bruno tries to explore the camp but is caught by his mom. He eventually gets out there to explore it and meets a boy living in the camp. The two boys become friends. Bruno brings him food. When they are caught together the boy who lived in the camp gets beat. Bruno's sister likes one of the Nazi soldiers, and buys into Hitler's brainwashing. Bruno is supposed to move away with his mom, and his mom and dad get in a fight. Later Bruno finds the boy living in the camp just beaten by a soldier. They plan to give the boy food, but they get caught and get put in gas chambers.
Tora Tora Tora: Was a movie about how the interception of messages about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor. There were a lot of signs about the attack coming, but the U.S. general in charge dismissed them. The movie ends right after the successful attack on Pearl Harbor.
Downfall: A movie about the Soviet Union moving in on Berlin that talks about what Hitler and other Nazi officials were doing. The Nazis were losing the war so they began killing themselves and their families so they wouldn't surrender to the Soviet Union.
Band of Brothers: The first episode is about the training of some U.S. paratroopers, and how they would jump out of a plane behind enemy lines and fight from there. The leader of their company was very hard on them. They eventually become part of the first wave of D-Day.
I talked about Saving Private Ryan and Downfall.
Pearl Harbor
Schindler's List
The Diary of Anne Frank
Band of Brothers
The Pianist
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