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Feeding the German occupying troops with pork allows for some good will, and allowing Herr Heck in to the zoo to run his breeding experiments gives them some sort of protection. With nothing left to keep their doors open, Jan and Antonina decide to run the zoo as a pig farm in an effort to keep the place running until the war ends. The remaining animals are shipped off to Germany thanks to a sleazy German Zoologist named Lutz Heck (Daniel Bruhl) who ends up being Hitler’s chief Zoologist. The Warsaw Zoo is hit in one of the first bombing runs from the Luftwaffe, leaving the place in utter shambles. As history has already let us know, Hitler DOES invade Poland in an all-out military offensive and the Polish people are forced to live under German occupation. However, times are uncertain as Hitler and the German government have already annexed Czechoslovakia and Austria, and people are starting to wonder if Poland is to be next. One of these lesser known true stories comes penned from Diane Ackerman’s novel of the same name, chronically the efforts of a single Zookeeper and his wife as they struggle to keep as many of Warsaw’s Polish Jews out of harm’s way, in much the same way Schindler himself did.Īntonina (Jessica Chastain) and Jan Zabinski (Johan Heldenbergh) run the Warsaw Zoo before the start of World War II, and have become legends in Eastern Europe for their Zoology skills. Books, films and all sorts of historical replicants have recreated some of these scenes, ranging from epic films like Schindler’s List (one of the greatest movies ever made), The Diary of Anne Frank and other lesser known ones. Very few of us do not have relatives that either fought in the 2nd World War, or have friends whose relatives were involved at some point.
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While there are countless atrocities committed all over the world, ranging from the monstrosities of North Korea, to the horrific war torn areas of Africa, Hitler’s attempt to systematically wipe out the Jewish race while conquering as much of the known world as humanely possible is something that has been commented on as being one of the biggest world tragedies that we have experienced (partially due to the worldwide participation in the allied forces uses to free humanity from the scourge of Hitler and his allies). World War II was an era that will live in infamy for many reasons, one of the largest being a near successful genocide of a race of people from Europe due to a power mad dictator who came to power due to an apathetic people.