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“The Wave” was a really good film and I really enjoyed watching it. The concentration camps was one of my favorite things to learn about. Basically because I had the same question as the girl in the video. Why did everyone else that was not involved in this crime step in and try to stop it? Why were they letting innocent people die? Was it because they were too scared to step up to anyone and say that what they were doing was wrong? They have so many questions about this time period that many people can't seem to answer. This time period was a very scary time for many people and I can totally understand why. I always loved talking and researching about this subject just because it interested me so much. I find this topic so interesting …show more content…

The film starts off as a normal school day at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, and the students in the History class were studying Nazi Germany. The teacher was explaining the concentration camps and the people that were in there. He also stated that the people in the concentration camps usually only lived about two hundred and seventy days and once they couldn't work anymore they were exterminated by gas chambers. As class raised their hands to ask questions one girls raised her hand and asked, “How could the Germans sit back while the Nazis slaughtered people all around them and say that they didn't know anything about it?” The teacher didn't know the answer to that question so he did some research and came up with a way to show them why the Germans didn't want to do anything about it. The teacher did a recreation of the Nazi Germany with his students to teach them something. This experiment first started with classroom discipline then it moved on much farther than that. Mr. Ross named this movement “The Third Wave” because waves are very strong, they go in one direction and they are very powerful. Jones also claimed that “Its members would revolutionize the world.” Howard S. Becker said that, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” (Henslin, 162) This was showed a lot during this film because the students didn't realize what

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