Book Thief Hatred Quotes

11 million Jews, Romanians, mentally ill, disabled, and homosexuals were brutally murdered in the Holocaust during WW2. People definitely already know about the Holocaust, but it truly is hard to understand the severity of this massacre. The amount of hate and intolerance Adolf Hitler had was extremely unnecessary and the ways he took it out on people who really didn’t deserve it was brutal. This led to even people of his own country returning that hatred. Throughout the resources available, it is possible to learn about the Holocaust through fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and films. A fiction book that portrays hate well in the Holocaust is The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. The people of Germany hated Hitler, as shown in the following quote. “Rudy stopped. ‘Because I want to kill him.’ he even turned on the spot, to the rest of the world. ‘Did you hear that, you bastards?’ he shouted. ‘I want to kill the Führer” (Zusak 424)! Rudy hated Hitler for sending his papa to war, even if he himself was born and raised in Germany. Another character who dealt with hate and especially intolerance was Max …show more content…
One film that is also a documentary is Paper Clips. It started with an average, normal middle school. They wanted to have a Holocaust unit, so they came up with the paper clip project. “The goal of the project was to teach and inform out kids on the Holocaust. We want them to be more accepting and open to new people and not show the same hate Hitler did towards other humans” (Paper Clips). In addition to documentaries, movies like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas help show visuals and real scenarios of the time during the Holocaust. Films have helped people everywhere understand and truly see what effects that the hate and intolerance shown during the Holocaust has had on people, during the Holocaust and in our modern day