The Jews and other groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses , mentally disabled, gays or lesbians, Gypsies and more were experiencing a change in political climate well before the world war. It started when Hitler rose to power in 1933. Hitler blamed these groups, and primarily Jews for all the economic problems or any complication with the government(Background:Life Before the Holocaust). Propaganda spread the lies about Jews far and fast. Examples would be that Germans would have more living space if these inferiors were wiped out or while all of the Germans were poor, some of the Jews were rich, even after the depression. Therefore, people would not let the Jews work for the government, own their own land, or run their own businesses. They were treated like trash and were stereotyped into low life monsters because the
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One example is when Liesel steals her 2nd book. The Nazi party is doing a book burning. Though the town Molching is a fake, but burning of Jewish books was not. Any books that were viewed as ‘non- German’ got heaped up in a massive pile, and the whole town was gathered to see it be engulfed in flames. Book burnings would happen before and during WWII and as we so in The Book Thief Liesel experiences one during the war. When Max is recalling the Night of Broken Glass, shows a different example of Nazi control. On pgs. 192-193, we hear, as readers, about Max’s experience on November 9, 2 years previous to when he came to the Huberman's. This shows us the power of the Nazi party, by showing how far they controlled the mindset of the Germans toward the Jews. A third example is that Max is at the Huberman's all together. If the Nazi’s wouldn’t have been set on getting rid of all the Jews, the night of glass wouldn’t happened. Therefore Max would have never been forced to leave his home and been hidden in the basement with the hopes he wouldn’t be
One example is when Liesel steals her 2nd book. The Nazi party is doing a book burning. Though the town Molching is a fake, but burning of Jewish books was not. Any books that were viewed as ‘non- German’ got heaped up in a massive pile, and the whole town was gathered to see it be engulfed in flames. Book burnings would happen before and during WWII and as we so in The Book Thief Liesel experiences one during the war. When Max is recalling the Night of Broken Glass, shows a different example of Nazi control. On pgs. 192-193, we hear, as readers, about Max’s experience on November 9, 2 years previous to when he came to the Huberman's. This shows us the power of the Nazi party, by showing how far they controlled the mindset of the Germans toward the Jews. A third example is that Max is at the Huberman's all together. If the Nazi’s wouldn’t have been set on getting rid of all the Jews, the night of glass wouldn’t happened. Therefore Max would have never been forced to leave his home and been hidden in the basement with the hopes he wouldn’t be