In the fourth part, “False Heroic, Hitler as Supreme Commander”, he focuses on Adolph Hitler, and his commander roles during World War II. Keegan points out Hitler's military strategy, and shows the failures of his leadership. In addition, Keegan emphasizes how Hitler became both the sole civilian dictators of their countries, and the head of their armed forces. According to Keegan, Hitler used demagoguery satisfactorily and he sold himself as a great soldier to gain support for his leadership. He participated in twelve battles in WWI.…
The startling question you have to ask yourself from reading Peter Fritzsche’s book Germans into Nazis, is what made the ordinary man in the crowd into the “Führer of the Third Reich”. In one of the most famous pictures in the European history you will see a young Adolf Hitler standing in the enormous crowd of people in the “August Days” celebration in Germany 1914. In this celebration you will see the everyday German anxiously waiting to hear the Kaiser speak. This is happened to take place a month after the outbreak of World War 1 in Europe. Fritzsche determines that this is the start of the Nazi Revolution in Germany.…
Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, pg 239-262. The book of Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners published in 1996, reflecting some an issue that concerned many Germans. This about the predators of the Holocaust, including groups and individuals who made the major decisions establishing the policy of extermination the Jewish people under Nazi regime, executed and supported it. The author illustrates to the role of anti-Semitic ideology that led the "ordinary" Germans commit to the genocide of the Jews including a number of unguarded women and defenceless children.…
During the Holocaust, in the desperate times of the ‘30s and ‘40s, many people perished in the concentration camps of war. Hundreds upon hundreds of people either died of starvation, beatings, the cold, or were killed in cold blood. This was at a time when the Jewish faith was hated and despised, and Elie Wiesel, along with the many thousands of Jewish people, had to fight to either keep believing or just give up the religion that they had loved for so long. Before all the chaos and agony that was to come, in the beginning, Wiesel had loved his religion and so had his family and his mentor. That changed quickly, because soon after the religious community had been taken to the concentration camps, the Nazi’s would either end the lives of the…
After reading Harry James Cargas’ reflection on Simon Wiesenthal's inability to forgive and Karl’s sins I have more insight into the reasons why Wiesenthal could not forgive him. He states that if “God chooses to forgive Karl, that's God’s affair” (125). This is completely true because it is not our place to forgive Karl. He also mentions how deathbed confessions are sometimes “too easy” (125). Before, I had not even contemplate how if Karl was truly contrite, he could have asked for forgiveness earlier in his life, he did not have to wait until he died.…
2.1 million people in a year on average have to make an emergency department visit for assault. There are 16,000 homicides per year on average. Cruelty follows people in life, regardless of where they are or who they are. In the book, Night, Elie Wiesel tells the horrors of concentration camps from his point of view as a survivor. In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote shines a new light on the 1959 murder of the Herbert Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb, Kansas.…
Captain Phillips is on the Indian Ocean with his other 19 crew members, sailing around the coast of Somalia. More and more pirate attacks have been coming from there, with Somali pirates attacking freighter ships and taking hostages for ransom money and goods from the freighters. There hasn’t been a successful attack on an American vessel in more than 200 years. “A Captain’s Duty” tells the tale of Captain Phillips fight through the Somali pirate attack and his duty to his crew members that he preserves, even when two of his crew members are severely in harm’s way. He even sacrifices his freedom for three days so that his crew can be safe.…
Kershaw’s starts from the fundamental views of German leadership, then goes to the traits Hitler exhibited, then proceeded to compare and contrast what actually happened and what was placed into the propaganda. “The gulf between the fictive figure, manufactured by propaganda on the foundations of pre-existing ‘heroic’ leadership ideals, and the genuine Hitler is striking… Hitler’s image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘Hitler Myth.’” “The Hitler myth can be seen as providing the central motor for integration, mobilization, and legitimization of the Nazi system of…
Due to the fact it's written from the third person omniscient perspective, "the narrator can stop the action at any time and tell us everything that we need to know in order for the story to make sense" (Shmoop Editorial Team). However, what's most fascinating about the narration of Watership Down is it's preferential treatment of rabbits, compared to humanity itself. Arguably, this is done to help you as a reader sympathize and connect with these creatures you're reading about, but there's an almost proud undertone to the narration as well. No matter how direct or indirect, whenever there's a comparison made between people and rabbits, the latter always seem to come out of it marked as the superior species.…
Lord of the Flies The story Lord of the Flies from William Golding is a lot alike to the events of World War II also, the storyline of Lord of the Flies is comparable to the timeline from World War II. The two main characters that make Lord of the Flies similar to World War II is Jack and Ralph, they both wanted to be leaders. Each person in the book shows resembles to a person or thing that happened in the World War II. The main focus on this essay to show the similarities between this book and World War II.. Lord of Flies is known to be a fiction story of World War II, written a short while the War ended.…
Theodore Roosevelt once wisely said, “I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the future.” Perhaps this is why oftentimes authors reflect upon past events in their writing. By putting their own twist upon history, they are teaching us all valuable lessons and educating us about how we can avoid making the same mistakes as we did in the past. J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, did just this by modeling her character, the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, after Adolf Hitler, perhaps one of the world’s most malevolent dictators. Throughout the Harry Potter series, we can see many parallels between the respective rises to power of Lord Voldemort and Adolf Hitler in post World War I Germany.…
Character Development The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about a young boy, named Huck, who was raised by a race that thinks they are superior than others and were taught the same way. He did not have a mother and his father was never home, but when he was home he mistreated Huck. Due to the abuse from his father, Huck decided to run away from home, but Huck was not the only one that ran away. Jim, a slave, ran away as well the same day that Huck day.…
“Night”, novel about Eliezer who survived from the cruelest event called Holocaust. He was a laborer and a survival from many camps, such as Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Eliezer need to work for food and for his own life, because he will be eliminate. “Night” itself, is a symbolic of suffering, death, darkness, and lost in faith. “Schindler’s List” is a movie about Oskar Schindler who made money from a war, during the Holocaust.…
Giving rabbits human qualities is a curious idea for a book. Nonetheless, Richard Adams took this idea and wrote Watership Down, a novel that follows a group of rabbits as they flee their warren. The band of misfits is led by a rabbit named Hazel who, at the encouragement of his brother, takes his people out of their old warren and leaving the promise of upcoming danger behind. They travel across farmland until they reach the downs and build their own warren, safe from the looming danger of men. However, the need to keep the warren going strives the rabbits to reach out and search for other warrens for assistance.…
Though there was one woman, Stefanie, who he went crazy for. He had never met her, only admired her from afar. One day he saw her walking with young officers and he immediately went into a jealous rage and said the whole officer class was now his enemy. This is another great example of the borderline personality, as it was from those two officers who weren’t knowingly hurting Hitler that, he decided to put them into the “all-bad” category. After this happened, Hitler told Kubizek that he had a plan to kidnap her, but Kubizek was able to convince him that doing such a thing, was crazy.…