Nole Ehrhardt Motifs: 1.Legalized Discrimination Hein ¾ 2.Community
“Tell Them We Remember” “German-African children were killed by the Nazis because they were viewed as an inferior race,” says Susan Bachrach in Tell Them We Remember, page 12. To start off, the book is about the black, white and bloody facts about everything that happened during the Holocaust. Now, Susan used the motifs of Legalized discrimination and community to show the that “discrimination puts people into separated social communities.” FIrst, the motif of Legalized Discrimination is shown when it states that the Nazis passed a law that restricted all civilian jobs to “Aryans,” the “perfect race”(Susan Bachrach page 12) THis upholds the theme
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This shows the theme in how jews were being discriminated and forced into ghettos that separated them from the rest of the community, and because of them not being allowed to leave, they would have to band together into their community separated from society, other than scoffers, to survive in their new conditions. Second, another time the motif is shown is when it states that after “Kristallnacht” every opposing party of the Nazi regime was forced into hiding with the general community, or killed.(Bachrach, page 24) This shows the theme because it shows that when different groups are targeted violently, they will grow small and blend themselves into the general community of people. Now, a final time the motif is shown is when it shows how extermination camps would be like a large slave town, forcing jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, etc., to live and work together.(Bachrach, page 58) This upholds the theme by showing how different people that are singled out will always find a way to survive, and in this case, by banding together and surviving off of one another. Finally, these three examples show how people that are discriminated and separated from the rest of society will likely find a community separated from the general public, or blend into the large community of the general