South Park clip 1: I think the clip was funny because it played off of something childish that adults feel is funny. It didn't really focus on the Jews, but it did poke out the forced labor and how rediculous it was to force people to work until death just because they're different. It also kind of bashed the idea of how people would hide just to survive which I didn't think was that appropriate.
South Park clip 2: This clip is a play off of Anne Frank. It kind of showed how some Germans had sympathy for Jews. It made fun of the scared Jews (cats). Cats can be seen as mangy animals so it is a sick comparison to compare the cats and Jews.
Board game: I think for kids who don't have background on the Holocaust, they develop the mentality the Germans had. They try to "win" the game by packing as many people in which is pretty much what the Germans tried. The children who understand the purpose of the game understand what is going on and they start to try to sabatage the game and purposely lose.
Perfume: This picture shows the false pretense of how the Nazis convinced people they were going into a camp and not a work and/or death camp. The outside was glamorized but once inside, just the the perfume, it was deadly.
Diet Coke: I don't understand the purpose of of having this image. It plays off of the idea that the prisoners starved and idn't have any luxuries. Some even died from malnutrition and in this advertisment, they are almost making fun of the situation.
Prada: Prada is expensive and a luxury item. It relates to how the Germans stripped the Jews of all their valuables.
Lego: I think the lego creation is really inapropriate because it allows for people to reinact the Holocaust. It's even more sickly ironic that it's from a company in Germany.
Gates of Auschwitz: If the gold really came form the fillings from the Jews, I feel that is extremely disrespectful. These people are dead and to make a beautiful piece of art from something so morbid.
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