The film portrays the Jews as a passive group who provided little resistance to the persecution they faced. The film also depicts strong unity among Jews in the ghettos and camps. He does these things to help the audience empathize with the Jews as a powerless, united group of people. He states that “thefts in the camps, severely repressed by the SS, were considered by civilians as a normal exchange operation” (86). Levi describes that theft was very common among civilians in the camps. This statement makes us understand that the Jews in the camp did not get along as well as the film suggests; what the film does again, increase public sympathy for Jews as a whole. The mentality of the camps was more one of free-for-all survival than a group effort to survive among the world's Jews.