Would You Die To Save Art? When asked this question prior to fully watching The Rape of Europa, I would have said no. Every human life is unique and irreplaceable. However, I have never experienced war or a holocaust. I have never been in a place where death and destruction is part of everyday life. I have never had a powerful leader try to destroy not only me and my people, but also absolutely anything that had to with us. The Rape of Europa showed me that there can be situations in which there is logic to risking one’s own life for art. Let us first consider what art is. Meriam-Webster defines art in six different ways. Their brief definitions are:
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When Hitler was 18 he was rejected from The Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, where many of the jurors were Jewish. While modern artists flourished, including many Jewish artists, he created the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany. His obsession with art was obvious in his politics as he believed that modern artists were of an inferior race that needed to be purged, otherwise the Germans would be contaminated by it. Hitler’s goal was to wipe out all of the Jews and any people deemed subhuman, or degenerate, along with their cultures. He ordered the annihilation of any towns, or even entire countries such as Poland, that was occupied by degenerates. He went so far as to have his troops go through cities after they had bombed them and collect anything remaining from the people, ranging from valuable pieces of art and jewelry down to the mattresses people slept on. Hitler wanted to exterminate these degenerate people and repopulate the land with the superior German race (The Rape of Europa). The depth of Hitler’s hatred towards the Jewish people and others, as well as the lengths he went to in the attempt to exterminate them, was by far intense. Throughout my research on Hitler, I kept seeing the word obsession as though he was fully absorbed with getting rid of these people that he thought contaminated the rest of the
Skill acquired by experience, study or observation; a branch of learning one of the …show more content…
When Hitler was 18 he was rejected from The Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, where many of the jurors were Jewish. While modern artists flourished, including many Jewish artists, he created the Nazi party and rose to power in Germany. His obsession with art was obvious in his politics as he believed that modern artists were of an inferior race that needed to be purged, otherwise the Germans would be contaminated by it. Hitler’s goal was to wipe out all of the Jews and any people deemed subhuman, or degenerate, along with their cultures. He ordered the annihilation of any towns, or even entire countries such as Poland, that was occupied by degenerates. He went so far as to have his troops go through cities after they had bombed them and collect anything remaining from the people, ranging from valuable pieces of art and jewelry down to the mattresses people slept on. Hitler wanted to exterminate these degenerate people and repopulate the land with the superior German race (The Rape of Europa). The depth of Hitler’s hatred towards the Jewish people and others, as well as the lengths he went to in the attempt to exterminate them, was by far intense. Throughout my research on Hitler, I kept seeing the word obsession as though he was fully absorbed with getting rid of these people that he thought contaminated the rest of the