Prisoners of Paradise

This documentary was another example of the propaganda used by the Nazis to convince the world that what they were doing during Hitler's reign was nothing more than happy, fun camps for those who were forced to go to. Instead what this documentary focused on was the real and terrifying concentration camps where millions of Jews went to die. While the last documentary we watched showed us an actual propaganda video used by the Nazis, which depicted none of the horrible events that were happening behind the scenes, this one was quite the opposite. Prisoners in Paradise took us to the very place where so many people went to starve to death, get tortured and worse. We even saw gruesome images of bodies stacked 10 feet high that photographers back in that day admit they couldn't even look at. The real story of this documentary was about a man who had a choice to either die like so many of his friends and family or to make a propaganda movie showing the world that there is nothing to worry about and the Nazis are right in what they were doing. It is an almost impossible choice to make, and in that sort of life or death situation your true moral character comes out. I don't think anyone can truly answer the question of what they would do in that situation because most of us will never be in any kind of predicament like that. The fear that the Nazi's used made the choice very clear for the filmmaker however.