I remember watxhing the series World at War when I was about 12 or so. I had previously only heard snippets of what had happened in the concentration camps. It was horrible stuff for a 12 year old to watch yet it changed me forever and in nothing but positive ways. A little Trauma as long as it is allied with truth will often lead younger people out of their lives of self interest and on the road to caring for others.
Nine and Seven is very young to be confronted with this though and obvioulsy would depend on the maturity of the youngster.
Mel
Funny how the millions murdered and lives destroyed by the followers of Marx and Lenin never get their stories told in films with "A little Trauma...allied with truth".
I predict no one will see this film. It will be stacked on top of the thousands of others nobody went to and next year there will be two or three more. Be sure to watch for the Jeff Goldblum flick about the concentration camp survivor. No one will go that one either.
Of course much of Germany was still rubble in the mid-50s, and we got to see a good bit of it. I was seven when I visited one of the Nazi concentration camps. It wasn't until we were actually there that my parents told me what it was. The most prominent part left standing were the ovens, much of the rest of the camp having been removed. To this day I remember the German guard standing off a way and looking down at his feet, unable to make eye contact.
Half a century later the recollection of that experience still sickens and enrages me. When the left, almost always lacking in knowledge or perspective, casually refer to those of us on the right as Nazis... it is all I can do to restrain myself.