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Hitler's Efforts To Stay Silent During World War II

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Remaining silent can save a person or it can be his destruction. People during World War II stayed silent in front of Hitler’s atrocities for fear that something was going to happen to their families, but was it really the best thing they could do, since by remaining silent 6 million Jews and got killed. Many people could have said something to save and protect the persecuted groups. One of the people that thought that the Germans, or anyone else, were complicit by not saying a word against Hitler, was Martin Niemöller. He was a famous social activist during World War II that survived miraculously to the concentration camps, after seven years of imprisonment (USHMM). Niemöller wrote a poem for all those people that didn’t utter a word during the war. One of the verses of the poem …show more content…

Even if those people weren’t directly involved in the cause by staying silent they let those thing happen and that is how Hitler could kill all those people not too many years ago, not because he had power, not because he was right and all the population agreed with him, no, it was because thousand of people didn’t say anything to stop him. To emphasise that also in an everyday context not expressing an opinion is dangerous. Anne Frank, the girl that every day was writing in her diary about her life as Jew in hiding did the same mistake by not saying anything. Anne and her mother didn’t have a good relationship, it is possible to read about a discussion between the two of the multiple times throughout the book, one, for example, is: “I seem to be indifferent to Mother’s tears and Father’s glances, and I am, because both of them are now feeling what I’ve always felt” (Frank 97). In this quote it is possible to see how Anne feels about both of her parents thus, you can see what she did

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