Gestapo

Ryan emphasizes how White Roses distributed their message through the leaflets. Soon after they were caught by the Gestapo and were executed. At one of the members trials before he was executed he stated, “And thou shalt act as if On thee and on thy deed Depended the fate of all Germany, And thou alone must answer for it.” (Kurt Huber) While facing his inevitable fate…

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This must have startled the Blumenthals’ because it was in the wee hours of the morning and the officers were searching the apartment they were living in-even though they were given a warning. The Gestapo took their car keys, and Walter (Marion’s father). Ruth wondered, “...Where were they taking Papa? Would we ever see him again?” This shows when the Nazi started to stress the Blumenthal family, considering how they took away their husband and father…

horrendous event in history, so they gave up on all hope and died. The Nazi’s forced these people into complete tasks that would lead to their own death. Night states, “They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (Wiesel 4). This quote shows that the…

Swing as an Attitude Towards Life Arising in the mid-1930s and originating in the United States, the newest style of jazz, swing, brought forth a renewed interest in jazz across the world, even in Nazi Germany. As the world began to recover from economic depression, swing, and swing-influenced music came to represent the latest trend in popular music. Despite discrimination against jazz music and jazz culture in the Third Reich, swing found an enthusiastic and dance-hungry audience. For a…

to be towards the betterment of the state as a whole. Volodya is depicted as the ideal, selfless Soviet sportsman while Getzke exhibits a Western ideal of a sportsman favoring individual freedom. Volodya puts his body on the line when he jumps in front of the German team’s shots. His saves were described as “mathematically impossible” (103) and feats that “violated physics” (103) which depict Volodya as a larger than life individual worthy of his depiction as an ideal Soviet man. Volodya…

Violence, most notably took the form of torture during the Algerian war. Due to the immense violence of the war, it was difficult to come to terms even decades after. Torture took many forms of pain, humiliation and shaming of the Algerians in order to gain information. The information that was at stake helped the French to bring down the hierarchy of the FLN. Although torture helped the French win battles, in the end it might of cost them the war by bringing more Algerians to the FLN’s side.…

the monitor still rewards Vladek handsomely with food in a respectful and caring manner. However, i still wonder, if Anja and Vladek had just stayed with their original host, would they still have lived, and would they still have been caught by the Gestapo. I honestly think that they would survive, because they were surviving efficiently, below the Nazi’s feet literally, when the husband would come home from vacation. I know that Anja has been wrong and winy in her past decisions, like giving up…

utopian vision of Adolf HItler, or were forced to join their ranks because their life and their families life were on the line. Who was Adolf Eichmann and was was the Final Solution? Karl Adolf Eichmann was a former SS officer who headed the Gestapo…

uses the quote, “Jews fighting back, who would have thought?”. Another cultural remark is of Henryk, Wladyslaw brother, when asked about joining the Jewish police stating, “Ah, more Jewish police. You mean you want me to beat up Jews and catch the Gestapo spirit? I see.” These uses of realism highlight the prevalence of human spirit in spite of a deadly…