My Reaction On Seeing Slaugterhouse Five

I saw this movie when it came out in 1972. I was saw it alone and the reviewer said that it had science fiction and sex in it. About five minutes after leaving the movie I got very angry about it. I remembered my grandmother who had been
murdered by the Nazis for being Jewish. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. seems to equate to bombing of Dresden to the holocaust. Slaughterhouse Five shows that the worst people in the movie, i.e. those that made Billy Pilgrim miserable were his fellow American Gi's, not the German wardens who behaved quite properly. Only after Dresden has been bombed does it show that the maddened Germans kill his
friend.
Kurt Vonnegut, who is of German descent, tries to minimize the Nazi crimes,
has written that the Germans were bad almost in a light comical way. Of course,
other German cities were bombed as severely as Dresden, only they did not have
the same artistic architecture as Dresden did. Also he has written another book
where Israel has a Nazi criminal, but the criminal is American.
Kurt Vonnegut claims to have been a witness to the bombing of Dresden but I have read another book by Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness, who claims to
have his life saved by the bombing of Dresden. He was a Jew converted to Christianity with a non Jewish wife. These type of people where treated badly
by the Germans but not sent away to the concentration camps. That is, until Feb.
1945 when the Nazi policy changed and they were sent away. There were about 100 of them in Dresden and when Dresden was bombed they were about to be sent away.
After the bombing, Klemperer and his wife fled to another German city and said that all his documents were destroyed in the bombing. So a few Jews actually had their lives saved in the chaos from the allied bombing of Dresden and other German cities.