GOVT 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Greater Germanic Reich, Real Change, Western People
23 Jun 2016
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Alian resnais"s 1955 film night and fog portrays the holocaust in a raw, brutally honest lens, showing the aggression of the nazis and their systematic extermination of those they found subordinate and even less than human. Resnais argues that the holocaust was the advent of genocide, making it a modern phenomenon rather than a time old atrocity. Both resnais and eric weitz feel that the holocaust was propelled by a new sense of nationalism and racism, creating the perfect storm for such an atrocity. In addition, the close of the film claims that while people mourn the holocaust, nothing has truly changed and therefore humanity will always be vulnerable to genocide as the nazi empire recedes farther into the distant past. In times before, st. augustine and thomas aquianas"s theory of just war , where people needed a moral obligation in order to enter a conflict, held strong with western people and their governments.
