This powerful short film about a disabled boy in Nazi Germany is highly recommended. You can find it on Netflix.
A mini review of movie is written and shared by a viewer of Summer Film Fest.
Forgive Us Our Trespasses is a short (13-minute) film on NetFlix about a teenage boy with a limb difference and his treatment in 1939 Nazi Germany. It is about as intense as 13 minutes of film can be. Nazis come to his house to take him away and he makes the difficult decision to run away and presumably become a resistance fighter. The young boy is played very well by Knox Gibson.
The whole thing is disturbing, but one of the more disturbing things is that the value of life is reduced by Nazi Germany to a simple economic calculation – if caring for someone is too expensive, that life should be forfeited for the benefit of society as a whole.
It is very sad that the idea of getting rid of disabled or otherwise different people was put in practice less than 85 years ago. My father served in World War II so I am only one generation from that world. But what is sadder Is that such positions still exist in today’s world. After all, it is still legal in some countries to put people to death for the crime of being gay. We should never, ever take disability rights for granted
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