... to black and white to show the mass killing. It also brings home how grim and dismal life was in the 1940's. It then returns to colour to show that the horror is over and that they can try and get on with their damaged life after 4,086,000 Jews were killed. During the end of the film Spielberg uses people that went through the trauma of the holocaust in the 1940's, this adds more feeling to the film. The film is chaotic, people are running frantically as the Germans carelessly shoot at them for being Jewish, a little girl in a red coat manages to escape, coming as a surprise halfway through the film. The colour brings your attention to the little girl, it also represents the blood lost during the holocaust. You later see the girl amongst a pile of dead bodies ready to be burnt. This shows that ...

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