When considering the Holocaust in its entirety, historian Nora Levin believes that this atrocity is unparalleled; a perspective that can be supported by the detailed precision of the dramatizations that have been made based on the events of this tragedy. The extreme cruelty, the destructive political and racial ideology, the scale of the human slaughter and the general callousness of the world are characteristics that make this act of cruelty an event that can never be compared to. In The Pianist some individuals threw themselves out of windows or poisoned themselves when they felt the time had come to be deported to a concentration camp and possibly executed in the gas chamber, so that they could at least die with dignity instead of being shot. take to the streets like a mad dog or be deported to an unknown place with an uncertain future. During one of the transports from the ghetto to the concentration camp, the train was stopped at the same place as a train carrying wounded German officers. When one of the officers stepped onto the platform and realized what was happening, he immediately ordered the Ukrainians to open the cattle cars and let the Jews out so they could clean themselves with the water he provided them because he was disgusted and horrified by what he saw. This description alone is a clear indication of the extreme cruelty experienced by Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, the elderly and the disabled at the hands of the SS due to the destructive and racial ideology of the Third Reich. Never before and never since has any group of people been forced to do what these particular groups of individuals had to do. It was never necessary to use the fat of the exterminated to make soap or dissect their remains to acquire gold or anything of value that was not obtained during the tour