The article, Fighting Against Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, describes How a boy named Ben was a jew and many times he was close to getting killed, he then was a partisan. When Ben Kamm was in his early teen years Adolf Hitler was planning on his annihilation of all jews in Europe. When the time of the annihilation came The Nazis and Hitler were burning and/or vandalizing any jewish owned businesses. Jews were not even aloud to step foot in public parks, libraries or leave there house after 5pm. That is what Fighting Against Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, is about.
From the small town of Sighet in Transylvania to the huge concentration camps of Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, the author and victim of the book Night, the horrifying experience of the Holocaust. Wiesel is a 15 year old Jewish boy who was captured by the Germans or “Nazis” during WWII. He went through an overwhelming amount of trauma, like when he got separated from his mother and sisters and watching his father suffer an unbearable amount of pain that eventually killed him. The fact is, power is a tool that can corrupt itself and others, it can ruin people’s lives and it can do that without people even realizing it.
Even initially, it was an “extraordinary success–it became an international bestseller within weeks” (Sinclair xiii). Why, despite its many synthetic flaws, was this book so widely and powerfully received, and why does it continue to be read and enjoyed as a classic work? Perhaps it is important to note that these synthetic flaws fade when put into context Of the reasons Sinclair had for writing this book. This work may have survived as a classic because of the author’s success in weaving the elements together-?and even bypassing them to an extent–in order to allow the audience to focus on a theme that would shock and move it into action.
Elie Wiesel’s touching memoir, Night, shares intimate details about the cruelty of World War Two concentration camps and the horrors that occurred within them. Concentration camps were spread throughout Germany and Poland from 1933-1945 as the result of strong anti-Semitic views radiating from the President and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. In the memoir, Night, Wiesel shares of the time that he and his father endured being held captive in several concentration camps, and the battle to escape death, day after day. In the memoir, the significance of night was used throughout the piece to draw connections and emotions from the reader. In Night, night was used both literally and symbolically to portray the unknown, pain, and the end of a journey.
During the time Elie Wiesel spent in the various concentration camps, it seems as though only the worst of events may occur, but Elie shows otherwise. He proves there is thoughtfulness and compassion in forms of words and actions. Elie is shown sympathy from a French girl, and the pure act of giving from his relative Stein. But in addition, a brave heart is willing to risk his life to save another person’s in the film The Pianist. Elie was in a unfortunate circumstance and was beaten for no apparent reason, and the French girl gave him hope.
As Winston Churchill states: “You ask: what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, no matter how long and hard the world may be; for, without victory, there is no survival.” This quote applies to times of war because in a war in order to try to achieve victories many countries are willing to sacrifice and go to the extremes. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the German army sacrificed millions in order to attempt to win World War One. However what they sacrificed is appalling.
The progressive reform that had the greatest impact on American society was the 18th Amendment which made the producing, transporting, or selling of alcohol prohibited. It all began when the Anti-Saloon party gained an advantage during World War I. Women who began these reforms gained support because of their influence on the workforce. If the women had not helped by working men’s jobs during the war, it would not have been as easy. Another aspect of the war that contributed to the amendment's publication was the limited resources available. Since alcohol was made of food sources, many saw it as a waste of food supply that could have been used for “our boys at war”.
The Holocaust-related plays, movies and books that have been read and watched thus far in the semester have left us, the students, with more questions than answers. By depicting the events as accurately as these playwrights and filmmakers have, the reader/viewer is then able to understand, in detail, the horrific acts of torture that the victims had to endure. With an accurate picture of the events of the Holocaust in their mind, the reader/viewer then can start to question how can a human being can commit such horrific acts of cruelty upon their fellow man or how a divine entity can allow something so terrible happen to the people that believe in them the most; questions with virtually impossible answers. For instance, in Amen, the filmmaker focuses on the unwillingness of Pope Pius XII to speak out against Hitler and the Third Reich even though several reputable individuals made him aware of the extermination and the forced labor that the Jewish people had to experience.
In 1933, George was standing with his father under the Brandenburg Gate where there was a victory parade for the Nazi party. They had music, drumming and marching. George’s dad stared crying. When George saw his father crying he asked his father, “why are you crying?”
The Holocaust’s Scars The Holocaust was a tragedy that happened in the early 1930s and will forever remember. During the Holocaust at least 6 million of Jews were killed by the German Nazis. This was a time of much suffering and pain for Jewish people. Throughout Night and the article Proudly Bearing Elders’ Scars, Their Skin Says “Never Forget” by Jodi Rudoren emerges as an important message.
Dachau is a concentration camp located in Southern Germany, that was used to exterminate Jews during World War II. It was used as a prison, to keep prisoners of war, Jews, gypsies, and other people who were spit upon in the German society. Dachau was the first concentration camp established and it was the base model of all the other concentration camp. It was originally a factory, but then the prisoners had to tear it down into a camp. It was established in 1933.
As a memoir, not only does Wiesel’s work offer insight into the history encompassing the Holocaust, but it does so through an extremely heart-rending plot seen through Eliezer’s perspective. At the end of Night, Wiesel describes the Holocaust’s effect on his protagonist when he writes, “One day I was able to get up [...] I wanted to see myself in the mirror [...] I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.
Imagine yourself 17 years old during an allied bombing manning an anti aircraft gun, about to be sent off to war and you hate Hitler. If you say anything bad about Hitler you die or are sent to a concentration camp. If I was in Germany during world war 2 the three hardest challenges would be the allied bombings, the German government sending 17 year olds to the front lines, and the government controlling and watching everything you say and do. To begin, the allied bombings where one of the man hardships the people in Germany faced. The allied bombings forced the people of Germany to drop anything and everything they were doing just to get to safety.
The film played an important role in setting the tone for the discussion of German guilt and atonement. Susanne whom desperately wished to forget the hardships she had endured during the war. Mondschein, the optometrist consumed by the present so that the past won’t slow him down. He is seen in his shop working hard. With the country under the grips of such great turmoil it is easy to see where he is coming from, Germany had to rebuild, and there was indeed a great many things the country had to do to get back on its feet.
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”---John F. Kennedy. What is conformity? Conformity is similarity of the actions and behaviors. The Wave was a recreation of WWII when Hitler was trying to wipe out the whole race of Jews. In The Wave, Mr. Ben Ross was in the place of Adolf Hitler, so everyone listened to him because he had dictatorship power.
