Introduction
Throughout World War 2 Germany was living and thriving in a sea of repression. Hitler and his followers blamed the Jewish for many things that had gone wrong during World War 1 and the germans believed that the Jewish needed to be punished for that. Nazi’ started forcing the Jewish out of their houses, stealing their valuables, transporting them in overpacked transport cars, relocating them to concentration camps, and it is at those concentration camps where they were starved, beaten, and destroyed. Before all of these actions were able to happened Hitler’s SS officers had to be trained to repress the Jewish and it is from that point of view that you should “read” my documents. In Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” we were told that the reason that the Jewish did not fight back was because they could not believe that human beings could do such things and that is why I chose to write my documents from the view of a SS officer who is completing his training and learning how to treat the Jewish.
Feel, Treat, Feel
By: Abby Schlichte
stripped. naked. vulnerable. beaten. that’s how they should feel.
hit. punch. whip. slap. order. that’s how you treat them. they are nothing, they are swine. treat them as such.
sorry. caring. feeling. remorse. guilt. are things you are not allowed to feel or do. you are here to work,
you
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They felt the pain, suffer, and lose. SS Officers were told how the Jews should feel, how they should treat them, and what things they themselves were not allowed to feel of do and I have tied this into my poem. These men, these soldiers were forced to do many horrific things as they repressed the Jewish and then act as if it had no effect on them. They had a job to accomplish and if they did not treat the jews as told or kill enough of them they would me moved to the front line of the war, where their chances of surviving were