Once, after showing Night and Fog, a student, very quiet, and his friend came up. The friend told me the quiet student's story..kind of person that doen't have much to say, but get's an outstanding grade. Anyway the story was that the quiet student and his mom, jumped out the back window to save their lives in Cambodia in the 70s, as the army came in to kill the quiet student's father. The "khmer rouge" had taken over Cambodia in the 70s and that was a group of totally anti-intellectuals, that killed the so called "intellectual elites" in the country for a period of 2 or 3 years. 2 million were killed.
The quiet student's father was a professor at a local university and they came to kill him, and they did. The mom and son got out, and eventually came to the United States and settled in the neighborhood that the high school was in..(it was a multi language and multi heritage neighborhood with people from many parts of the world)
So in showing this film, about the evil in Nazi Germany, I found out a first hand experience, from a student in my class, about the evil in Cambodia in the 70s. (this event took place in the late 80s) ..I have not forgot those moments when the two students came up to discuss this film, "Night and Fog"..
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