Melody Clavesilla P.1 4/1/16 Teens against Hitler Ben Kamm was one of the Jewish teens who fought the Nazis, 60 million people died in the war. Ben grew up in Warsaw, Poland, in the 1920s and ‘30s. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s Leader, hated the Jews, he was plotting the Annihilation. Ben Kamm’s experiences during the Holocaust changed him by making him clever, terrified, and stronger.…
Propaganda is the art of persuasion-persuading others that your side of the story is correct. Propaganda takes on many different forms, especially in the 1930’s. Some forms of persuading include making your military look like it is too great to be challenged like the Soviet Union. Both Germany and the Soviet Union used propaganda for their political gain. In some ways, they used it in the same way, to make other religious or political groups inferior to the main party.…
In Detlev Peukert’s “ Young People: For or Against the Nazis?” Peukert dichotomizes what the mindset of the teens and children in Germany, and why they were so adamant about becoming a good citizen in the eyes of the Nazi party. Determining why the youth growing up during the rise of the Nazi party were so willing to follow and support the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler’s reign of supremacy is a fascinating topic to dismember and investigate.…
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started” (Henry Ward Beecher). By this measure, Peter Müller, the main character in the 1993 film Swing Kids, is an exemplary representation of the human character. Introduced as passionate follower of American swing music and close friend of Arvid and Peter during the Nazi regime, Peter initially views Hitler’s party in a poor light, yet is conflicted by his father, who attempted to help persecuted Jews. Increasing pressure from his mother and a faustian bargain force him to join Hitler Jugend (HJ), which he faithfully trains with until he has an epiphany about its effect on Thomas, among other things. Eventually, Peter…
Swing kids is a fictional story based movie directed by Thomas Carter in 1993. This movie captured in actual events that took place in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. This movies shows the lifestyle, culture, dance, food and clothes that were used in 1930s. In this movie Thomas, Peter, and Arvid is cast as main character who were supported by others. The movie shows the ongoing tension between swing kids and the Hitler jugend who try to suppressed the young rebellion and force them to join Nazi movement.…
The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, speaks about a boy, Ben Kamm, and the challenges some 350,000 Jews in Warsaw faced when Hitler invaded Poland. “‘Eliminate the Jews,’ Hitler proclaimed, ‘and you will eliminate all of Germany’s problems!’” (6.) Not only was this a threat to Warsaw, but it was also a threat to Europe’s 9.8 million Jews. Ben, being a Jew himself, lived through “one of the darkest and most evil chapters in history: the Holocaust.”…
To what extent was the Hitler Youth used to defend the Third Reich? To answer that question, the Hitler Youth had been used extensively to defend the Third Reich by fighting as soldiers to their death on the front lines. Adolf Hitler was the Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945. Hitler founded a youth organization ordering all boys and girls ages ten-eighteen to join a youth program that leads to mandatory military service for the Third Reich. The boys and girls ages ten-fourteen fell into the Jungvolk and Jungmadel, respectively.(Bartoletti 23)…
Analytical Paragraph 3 Walt Disney’s Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (1943) is an animated propaganda short film that was released on January 15, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by Clyde Geronimi. The film shows the process of how the members of the Nazi German Army are developed from birth and molded into a robotic character whose lives are dictated by Adolf Hitler. At 1:00minute into the film a German couple who has just welcomed a new life into the world stands in front of a judge and pleads for his approval in naming their son Hans. “There’s the Verboten list, you cannot give your child a name that is on this list,” says the judge.…
Strengths and Weakness in School Ties and Swing Kids By Leonardo Garcia Around the 1930’s-1950’s there was a large movement of anti semitism in Germany and the United States. In these two films they present two different sides of a story one is about being the only jewish teen in a catholic high school in Michigan where anti semitism is a fairly common occurrence, While the other story is a movement against the nazi socialist party about their censorship of western culture, music, fashion, western movies, and dancing, with a group of teenagers a part of the movement called “Swing Kids” who watch forbidden western movies, dance swing, play swing music, listen to Jewish/Negro artists, refuse to cut their hair, and pick fights with the local Hitler Youth. But many people ask what is anti semitism but anti…
Hitler Youth, the teachers didn’t exactly teach the children about Jews and Anti-Semitism, they asked the children questions but neither agreed nor disagreed with what the children said. The teachers would tell deliberate lies, and they would tell the children to ‘fill in the blank.’ Also, it was interesting how each of the readings showed a different tier on the pyramid of hate, and how each event resulted into another.…
Thomas even began turning against his friends and family. The events that took place in the film were accurate as well, such as the Hitler Youth invading swing clubs. The characters shown were somewhat accurate, it is obvious that Hitler was real as well as the Hitler Youth, but characters like Arvid, Thomas, and Peter were only fictional characters. After watching Swing Kids, I believe the overall historical accuracy was very well portrayed in the…
According to the Jewish Virtual Library, approximately 860,000 Jews were saved by people whose job was or had voluntarily rescued Jews headed to concentration camps. These people risked their lives in order to save Jews even though it was illegal and could make them end up in jail or in the concentration camp too. However, in Ayşe Kulin’s Last Train to Istanbul, the heroes of the story risked their lives to help the Jewish people and this is an accurate portrayal of of history because they are similar to real people who survived the Holocaust.…
During WWII, the formation of ghettos marked a central step in the Nazi 's systematic process of control, dehumanisation, and mass murder of the Jewish population. The ghettoisation of European Jewry was plainly an extension of the Nazis already established anti-Semitic regime that would ultimately lead to one of the worst cases of genocide in modern history - the murder of 6 million Jews. Ghettos were city districts (primarily enclosed) in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and sometimes regional Jewish population and forced them to live in extremely squalid conditions. Ghettos were designed to confine and segregate Jewish communities; separating them both from the non-Jewish population as well as from other Jewish people. The Germans…
Concentration Camps… the place that tore families apart, the place where Nazi’s torchered, ruined, and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews.…
In mainstream culture, children tend to focus on school and recreation, while politics has often been a subject that is present in the conversations of adults. In Nazi Germany, however, the social and political ideologies of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) was entrenched in the lives of millions of German youth, evidently by design. In his autobiographical book, “Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany”, Hans J. Massaquoi provides a unique perspective to the typical prototype of a German youth. As a mixed-race, German boy growing up in one of the most politically-instilled cultures in modern history, he was neither accepted by the Nazi regime, nor persecuted to Nazi Germany’s fullest extent.…