Wednesday, February 6, 2019

“You are Free” Questions

“You are Free” Questions

What are Americans doing visiting concentration camps including Buchenwald and Mauthausen in 1945?  Why?


What does it say (translated into English) above the gate at the concentration camp?


What does this mean and why is that ironic?


How did Klein meet his wife Gerda?


DVD freezes around 8:00- next chapter button works to skip blemish on DVD

What different conditions are the people in that US troops come upon?


What did some people do to some guards?


What did the townspeople have to do?


Why is it that the 90 minutes he spent at the camp was the only thing that bothered Connors for the rest of his life?


Explain the reaction of Dr. Leon Bass based on these quotes from the film- “I saw the clothing of young children...I wondered why...All anybody could tell me was that they were different...nobody told me about the Death Camps…”


What are the different religious reactions people can have during a time like this?




Liberators interviewed



______________________ Herschel Schacter- US Army Chaplain and captain/Liberator of Buchenwald


______________________ Leon Bass- US Army Engineer, Corporal, Liberator of Buchenwald


Mr. John Connors- US Army Engineer, Private First class and Liberator of Mauthausen


Mr. Kurt Klein- US Army Intelligence, Second Lieutenant and Liberator of Death March Volary in Czechoslovakia


Gerda Klein- ______________________

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