Fahrenheit 451 Accurate Versions of History This social commentary is about how the government wanted to make the people happy by filling the people up with useless facts, to making them feel like they are learning something useful when they are not. Such as how much corn grows in Iowa each year, or who can memorise the capitals of the states. In Fahrenheit 451 the firemen in the book catch houses on fire, to destroy the books that people have hidden. Firefighters are superior to others, which make other people afraid of firefighters. Long ago, there was word that the firefighters used to put out house fires, before houses became fireproof. Now, the firefighters are similar to the Germans who burned the Jewish people’s books in Germany and …show more content…
There is no segregation, no racism, just equality for everybody. They have erased Race, as of the history there has been a lot of problems. Jim Crow Laws. The government wants to keep the past hidden during the present time. A lot of the past is in books, were created to educate people on segregation and the racism against other races. Hitler had done the same thing after World War I. With Hitler, believing that the Germans were the purest and strongest out of everybody, he planned to take over the world and murdered the Homosexuals, Jews, and Handicapped, along with others who tried to rule against him and his army. “Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism and obsessive pursuit of Aryan supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews, along with other victims of the Holocaust.” (www.history.com) Hitler had taken control of Germany, and Poland. He sent Jews to concentration camps, taking away their German citizenship, and not allowing them to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, along with not allowing them to marry any Germans, Hitler determined if someone was a Jew by a history test of Germany's history. If they failed, they earned the title of a jew and had their citizenship stripped away and were sent to a concentration camp. At the Concentration camps, which there were around 40,000 camps or incarceration sites, they did hard labor, the victims were malnourished and abused. The ‘Jews’ get murdered in large groups. For example: Burning them in boiling water, starvation, having the Jews dig pits; shooting them down in their own grave, and the most famous, gas chambers. Gas Chambers was a large room where the Nazi’s piled the Jews into, and locking them in and opening a hole at the top where they would let the gas flow in; killing them all in the matter of minutes.