Personal Response: The book We Fought Back by Allan Zullo was a very interesting book. The book was a non-fiction and different stories from different teenagers in every chapter. They explained what their experiences were during World War II. I enjoyed reading this book and I hope to find a second book similar to this one.…
The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, describes the hardships of Ben Kamm, a Jewish boy, and his family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Ben lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. He and his family managed to survive for a couple of months in the Warsaw Ghetto with a little help from family and friends. Ben had joined the partisans in hope of helping himself, his family, and other Jews. Though he lived through a horrific time he showed courage in a situation where others would have run in fear.…
Soldier Boys is a fiction book published in 2001 by Dean Hughes. This book shows the viewpoint of two boys, one German and one American. Dieter, the German boy, is only 10 years old and this book tells the story of how he ended up going from a little kid to a man fighting for his country. Spencer, the American boy, is only 15 years old and he is going to fight for America to impress the girl that he likes named LuAnn. This story takes place during WW2 before and during The Battle of the Bulge.…
The Boy who Dared Rykhus 3 This book was a very interesting book. The Boy who dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti was written in the time of the nazi death camps. The Nazi death camps were Hitler's way for killing the Jews in Germany. This book is about Helmuth a three year old boy which is a Jew.…
Other forms of resistance to Nazi rule came from some Christian churches both Catholic and Protestant. An example of resistance from the church is the Catholic Church who like many groups displayed direct opposition and protest towards Nazi policies particularly to the policy of euthanasia. A high up Catholic bishop publicly denounced euthanasia on behalf of the church and this was followed by a number of churches doing the same throughout Germany. This is one of the few examples where their considerable support for the opposition of Nazi policies. It was an unusual situation where a well respected organisation directly opposed the Nazis and the Nazi regime would struggle to interfere, unlike other resistance movements.…
The Boy Who Dared is based in Hamburg Germany. It takes place during WWll and is about a German boy trying to go against the Nazis. Helmuth is the protagonist in the story. He is a German boy and was 17 when executed. Helmuth was a boy who was sentenced to death for listening to illegal radio and putting up flyers about the Nazis.…
It includes D-Day, the death of President Roosevelt, the end of World War II, the Holocaust revelation in Europe, and the struggle for the State of Israel creation. Each of those historical affairs shows its effects on main characters…
Ian Kershaw’s article “Hitler and the Germans” analyzes the approach used to assert Hitler’s position in German politics. The main theme of this article is the creation of the “Hitler myth” and its spread throughout German society. This critique will discuss Kershaw’s argument and how effective it was. Kershaw argues that Hitler’s personality was not the key to his success and neither was his own personal Weltanschauung. He believes that it would be more accurate to study the popular image of Hitler, what the average German would have experienced.…
Harry Mazer's A Boy at War, published in 2001, recounts the experiences of fourteen-year-old Adam Pelko. Adam is a young man from a military family who lives in Hawaii in the days leading up to and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It is just a matter of chance that Adam and two friends are fishing in a rowboat on the harbor on that fateful morning when the attack occurs. At first, the boys assume that they have been caught in a drill, but quickly realize that the planes and bombs are real. In the confusion following the initial onslaught, Adam helplessly witnesses the sinking of the Arizona, the ship on which his father is stationed.…
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak had a very deep and meaningful message about the holocaust. It gives a very detailed picture of what life during the holocaust was and how people lived in Germany. “As the villagers flooded into the bomb shelter and waited for the night to finish”. This book was definitely…
This novel takes place deep inside Nazi Germany at the time when things were at its worst. 1942 was one of the darkest years our world has come to see. Not only was it looking as if the axis powers were bound to win the war but also the first horrific details came to life from survivors from the terrible prison camps. Many of the people the reader encounters in this novel are living terrible day to day lives and are too scared to put up a fight. The people with any sort of significant powers are usually very cruel and try to make others life miserable.…
In Ian Kershaw’s The ‘Hitler Myth’ Kershaw goes to argue the facts behind the myths about Adolf Hitler and his position in Nazi Germany. Kershaw does not try to focus on the man himself but more along the lines of “It is not, in fact, primarily concerned with Hitler himself, but with the propaganda image-building process, and above all with the reception of this image by the German people-how they viewed Hitler before and during theThird Reich;…” The book itself is split into three parts. The first part taking place in the year 1920 and ending in the year 1940.…
Nazism is an ideology of white supremacists that condoned authoritarian rule and behavior. It has negative connotation due to its history of evil and ignorance that led to the genocide of millions of Jewish people. In Alfons Heck’s book, A Child of Hitler, he discusses the rise of Hitler and reminisces upon his experience under Hitler’s rule. He was a part of the Hitler Youth and eventually became a general of the Nazi party. During Hitler’s rule, Heck’s indoctrination and the social expectations demanded of him crafted him into becoming a servant of Hitler.…
The book that I have read is The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. This book is not like other books in the aspect that there is not a chronological chain of events that ultimately lead up to a conclusion. Rather it is a book that contains several short stories that bring about a thorough summery of what World War Two was in America. Through the eyes of ordinary people that had to withstand changes such as the rise of America in the early 1900’s. As well as the downfall in the form of the great depression.…
I read the book “Finding Rebecca,” written by Eoin Dempsey. This book is a story about lost and forbidden love during the Holocaust. A Nazi soldier is torn from his Jewish lover by the Nazi occupation. Although this book is fictional it will give a reader the sense of what it was like for the terrorized Jews and also the German soldiers who did not agree with Hitler.…