Compare The Difference Between Fateless To The Book War And Genocide

The Holocaust is a topic that is kept alive through things like movies and books. When looking at the movie Fateless to the book War and Genocide that is exactly what these works do. By comparing and contrasting this book and movie we can see how we as people remember and commemorate the genocide. Both the book and the movie commemorate this tragedy of the Holocaust by tapping into the inner core of what makes us humans. By surrounding us with brutality that occurred, we question things like, the morality of humanity and the wrath we can afflict onto others. These are the questions that represent the Holocaust and that sets the foundation for how we remember this event and ensure it doesn’t happen again. We remember the Holocaust because of

When comparing the movie Fateless and the book War and Genocide the two have different main objectives. The author’s main purpose in War and Genocide is to provide a detailed context to the rise and fall of the Third Reich, providing us with how the events surrounding the war and outside factors created a cloak for the Holocaust to happen. The focus is on Germanys position in the war, the information being predominately historical, with only a couple first hand experiences. The movie on the other hand is about a single person, 14 year old, Hungarian Jew Gyorgy Koves, and his struggle for survival as he is transported from camp to camp. In the movie there is very few Nazis seen or discussed, nor do the viewers have any background on how the actual war is progressing or directly affecting them until the end of the movie. While the book is

Because of Hungary’s previous alliance with the Germans, Hungarian Jews were some of the last to be deported and sent to concentration camps. “ In 1994 German and Hungarian collaborators worked together to deport a large number of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz- Birkenau (Bergen 222).” This is accurately portrayed in the movie where in the year 1944, we see Gyorgy be stopped by Hungarian police on his way to “labor camp”, but instead was transported to an interment camp and then later sent on a train to Auschwitz. Both the book and movie depict the Hungarian police as anti-Semitic and brutal. Karoly Lendvai in the book recounts how a Hungarian policeman shouted at him “ “Rot! You Jew-Gypsy!” (Bergen 223). Before being deportated to Auschwitz, this also happens to Gyorgy, when the British were bombing the areas around them, a Hungarian policemen shouted “ you stinking Jews, we saw you signing the British