How many Jehovah’s Witnesses were killed in the Holocaust? The Jewish Virtual Library says 2,500-5000.
Purpose: The author's purpose for the article was to inform the reader of the plight of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. The intended audience is anyone who wants to know more about the Persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses. The Article’s premise is the Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The author reaches the conclusion the Jehovah’s Witnesses were unfairly convicted of crimes and maltreated in concentration camps, but they refused to denounce their faith and that is admirable. The article’s information is not shaped or limited by the type. By including few opinions the article is close to as fact …show more content…
THe author remains mostly objective, but in the beginning of the article it becomes clear the author has admiration for the actions of the Jehovah's Witnesses.They say the Witnesses displayed courage by refusing to denounce their faith. Whether or not refusing to denounce their faith was courageous is subjective and the author's opinion exemplifies how they are biased towards the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The author is affiliated with the Jewish Virtual Library, which is a project of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. The author’s objectivity is most likely unaffected by historical reasons, but there is a possibility that they are against the Nazis because they are considered to be responsible for some of the most evil atrocities ever committed against human beings. More likely however is that the author has genuine opinions of the Nazis that are very similar to the average person. The Author does not mention non- Nazi viewpoints that the persecution of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was justified or the belief that the actual death toll of the Holocaust was much lower. The author uses emotionally loaded language for example using fled instead of left because it makes the reader feel more sympathetic towards the witnesses. They also use intensified instead of increased when writing about the degree of persecution the Witnesses experienced. Intensified makes the persecution sound much more severe. The author does not make use of figurative language. The ideas of the Jehovah's witnesses being unfairly treated and their courage being admirable identical to my own feeling on the subject. Though there is not really a conclusion the idea that the victims of the Holocaust were treated unfairly meshes with everything else I have heard or read on the
Purpose: The author's purpose for the article was to inform the reader of the plight of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. The intended audience is anyone who wants to know more about the Persecution of Jehovah’s witnesses. The Article’s premise is the Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The author reaches the conclusion the Jehovah’s Witnesses were unfairly convicted of crimes and maltreated in concentration camps, but they refused to denounce their faith and that is admirable. The article’s information is not shaped or limited by the type. By including few opinions the article is close to as fact …show more content…
THe author remains mostly objective, but in the beginning of the article it becomes clear the author has admiration for the actions of the Jehovah's Witnesses.They say the Witnesses displayed courage by refusing to denounce their faith. Whether or not refusing to denounce their faith was courageous is subjective and the author's opinion exemplifies how they are biased towards the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The author is affiliated with the Jewish Virtual Library, which is a project of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. The author’s objectivity is most likely unaffected by historical reasons, but there is a possibility that they are against the Nazis because they are considered to be responsible for some of the most evil atrocities ever committed against human beings. More likely however is that the author has genuine opinions of the Nazis that are very similar to the average person. The Author does not mention non- Nazi viewpoints that the persecution of the Jehovah’s Witnesses was justified or the belief that the actual death toll of the Holocaust was much lower. The author uses emotionally loaded language for example using fled instead of left because it makes the reader feel more sympathetic towards the witnesses. They also use intensified instead of increased when writing about the degree of persecution the Witnesses experienced. Intensified makes the persecution sound much more severe. The author does not make use of figurative language. The ideas of the Jehovah's witnesses being unfairly treated and their courage being admirable identical to my own feeling on the subject. Though there is not really a conclusion the idea that the victims of the Holocaust were treated unfairly meshes with everything else I have heard or read on the