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reaction for Voyage of the Damned     Voyage of the Damned was a take up base on the true-life get off, The Saint Louis, which departed from Hamburg, Germany with over 900 Jewish passengers. Their final end point was Havana, Cuba, which is where they would live until they received visas to enter the United States.      Before watching the film we fill actual news articles from the voyage and wrote down facts that occurred throughout the copulate of months the ship was at sea. Then when we viewed the film was compared the facts from the news articles and "fiction" from the film.      umpteen of the situations portrayed in the film were correlated to the articles. The departure of the ship, the amount of clip spent on the ship, the problems with landing in Cuba, the amount of money each person needed to obtain visas, the mans suicide on the ship, and many new(prenominal) facts were accurate when relating this story from fact to "fiction". Overall, when taking into account what we read and what we saw, there were only minor differences in concluding which is fact and which is fiction. For example, in the articles, an elderly woman was granted license to get off the ship when it was docked in Havana. In the movie two young children were granted permission to get off the ship.      Throughout this entire situation in twain life and in the movie there were questions that needed to be answered. 1 of which was why were 1,000 Jews allowed to leave Germany? When they were on the ship, and werent allowed to land in Havana, why didnt the overlord just basically kick them off?