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Alyssa Vandiver ENG Comp 101-135 Mr. Neuburger 4 October 2012 Essay A Film Unfinished A Film Unfinished is a moving documentary about the Nazis staging the Jewish people in different scenes for propaganda. The films were taken during WWII in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Ghetto built by the Nazis. There were over 400,000 Jews in a 1.3 square mile radius. For a long time the films were just thought as documentation and no one knew that the films were staged. It wasnt until recently that a film that was unfinished had showed the Nazi soldiers filming and doing re-takes was discovered. This filmed proved that all the films were shot as propaganda. The Nazis were staging different scenes with the Jews and showing the difference between the rich and poor. I think the Nazis filmed these to prove that the Ghetto wasnt a bad thing. They showed the Jews dancing and talking. They made the films look as realistic as possible. In one scene they even fired gun shots in to the air to cause panic. They would do as many retakes as possible to make the scene seem as real as possible. They would shot from different angles over and over again. The retakes showed that everything was staged and unreal. The Nazis made the Ghetto look like a nice place for the Jews when in reality they were so cramped they had to step over dead bodies just walking down the streets. The Nazis were starving the Jews in the Ghetto. They were so cramped there was nowhere for people to walk without being next to someone else. The films showed the Jews happy when they were actually starving, scared, and cramped. After the Nazis were finished with the Jews in the Ghetto

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they were sent to concentration camps where many died. Everything that happened with the Jews and Nazis was wrong. Its hard to believe that this could ever happen in history.