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Holocaust Literature (Personal Opinions (How does this past event effect…
Holocaust Literature
Personal Opinions
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Why do people so easily become convinced of something because of authority or higher peoples beliefs.
When a authority becomes involved people have the tendisy to believe what they area saying. The same thing happened to the Germans when Hitler tried to convince them the Jews were the evil people. It is just the nature of humans and some people are trying to change that. It already is a thing in the US were the people vote and run a democracy.
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Historical Context
Statistics
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Adolph Hitler was considered the ring leader of the entire holocaust trying to decrease population size
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Important Events
Propaganda was used most commonly to persuade German citizens to believe that Jewish people were bad and wanted them to think they were the enemy. Parents would sing there kids songs before bed, tell stories, Daily papers or poster around town would make up stories about Jews making them out to be Evil people.
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Important People
Adolph Hitler was the leader of the Nazis in Germany who started and controlled the persecuting of the Jews. His actions lead to the beginning of World War II and large disagreement among the world.
Nazis were the "soldiers" that worked for Hitler and Germany and did the majority of killing and fighting in wars. They began to slaughter Jews and put them to work after there painful and awful journeys just to be killed.
First hand accounts
Night
Struggles
Elie Wiesel reads “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.” The view and pictures of daily death and hatred made it hard for those watching the deaths to bear it. They struggled to continue to have the willl to live.
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Lasting Effects
Elie Wiesel wrote “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” These are thoughts that will forever stay with him even at the young age of 15, to so clearly remember this traumatizing experience.
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Maus
Struggles
Art Spieglman explains a past struggle for will power to continue living and fighting by saying, "We knew the stories – that they will gas us and throw us in the ovens. This was 1944 … we knew everything. And here we were.” It was already a struggle having the thought implanted in your head that your life was pointless and that you were worth nothing, know they had to just ride the path until it came to an end.
Lasting effects
In Maus Art Spieglman says “No! You don’t know counting pills. I’ll do it after … I’m an expert for this.” This isn't something somebody living a normal day to day life would say. It proves that after all the years of torture and pain the outcome would be more suffering and struggle in the future. Being an expert at pill counting probably isn't something you want.
World Genocide
Cambodian Genocide
All past effects of life were attempted to be wiped out. Schools, shops, hospitals were all shut down and a new society was tried to be formed.
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They attempted very cheap yet affective forms of torture to truly strike fear in the hearts of the people.
Pol Pot, Leader of the Khmer Rouge Government, Was Never Brought to Trial For His Crimes
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