| Albert Speer | Events Shape People More Than People Shape Events. | | Louis Funnell | | | "To this day I still consider my main guilt to be my tacit acceptance of the persecution and the murder of millions of Jews," -Albert Speer, South African Affidavit, c.1978 The statement, events shape people more than people shape events, is significantly accurate when describing Albert Speer, despite some events being shaped by him. These events include his emotionally sterile childhood, his presence at Hitler’s Munich University speech, (this event playing a pivotal role in his Nazification). His place in Hitler’s circle was secured through his chance to design the Nuremburg rallies of 1933 (as a result of Templehof rally designs), which would become known as, his most recognized and successful work, The Cathedral of Light. Despite these events playing a significant role in his life, Speer also shaped some events, which caused him to become the man he was, specifically his success as the armaments minister and his similar success as Reich Architect.
Thesis for Fifth paper: Although the two films narrate vastly different stories, the film Icile Thief and Novo Cinema Paradiso exemplify how modernization and consumerism pollute pure cinema world as the time processes. In Icicle Thief, the presentation of black-white Italian film is interrupted by several colorful and perky television commercials, which satires commercialism in modern world. In Novo Cinema Paradiso , describe the theater which give people most joys and laugher during the post-war time destroyed. As the time progresses, the classic Italian cinema become less valuables in daily life and be sold as junk food. The film Icicle Thief sets as homage of the famous neorealist film The Bicycle Thief.
Italian neorealist films place the viewer in an unusual landscape. Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves (1948) transports us to real life in post-war Italy; with all of its dismay, discordance, and hopelessness. Italian Neorealism rose out of the ashes of an Italy defying the glamorised Hollywood depictions, to illuminate the plight of the people, significantly, the working class. Seemingly devoid of deliberate staging, and shot entirely on location, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) was in fact a thoroughly ‘directed’ film (Bazin, 1971, p50). By taking us outside of the usual mise en scene of the American norm, The Bicycle Thieves (1948) directed our attention with deceptive simplicity to the largely unremarkable story of a lost bicycle.
Whereas others were taken to Ghettos. The Jews were killed in many horrific ways, with the gas chamber being the most ‘quick’ and ‘efficient’ way of killing the Jews. This links us on too ‘’Boy in the striped pyjamas’’ and ‘’life is beautiful’’ as both of them have death camps in Poland, whereas the pianist had ghettos instead. This is where Jews were taken after the German invasion of Poland. The war made it impossible for Hitler to get rid of the Jews so the Jews were trapped under the Nazi rule.
Survival: Luck or Wisdom? Art Spiegleman’s books, Maus I and Maus II, are graphic novels describing Art’s father, Vladek, and his plight through the Holocaust. During that time, the Jews were performing acts so unthinkable that if performed today, would be seen as crude and obscene. These acts, though looked down upon, were done with only one thing in mind: survival. Surviving the strict Nazis and traumatizing death camps depended purely on one’s good luck or one’s strategic knowledge.
The first documentation about their intention to exterminate the Jews appears in the 1942 Wannsee conference, when Germany faced a difficult situation in the Soviet Union. This illustrates that the Nazis had decided on the complete eradication of the Jews as the war became increasingly difficult. The extreme anti-Semitism displayed by Hitler in his speeches and comments and Nazi propaganda has been used to support the belief that the Nazis had decided on extermination as soon as they gained power. However, Hitler was known to exaggerate in his speeches to the extremist audiences, with remarks such “As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected… Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink”. Clearly, the method mentioned is unfeasible and this had the role of causing a sensation.
He was leader of the Nazis till he got caught at his military base than sentenced to a short term of imprisonment. (www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com ) . The holocaust started because of Hitler. Hitler caused this because he wanted to annihilate the Jewish race. Adolf had a fear of being overrun by a different race and wanted to be the leader of the world.
Racism, hatred, and abuse were all brought upon someone who did not believe in the same religion as Hitler. New Historicism is clearly present in The Book Thief as an eye opener to the life of a victim during these times and to show all aspects of Germany during the rule of Hitler. It is amazing how one can obey their leader so extendedly that they will kill even the
It mentioned that, the Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century. Adolf Hitler was a dictator who began conquering most of Europe in World War II. His tactics were brutal and he had vision of a better society, a society he wanted and so he started his own genocidal policies on the Jews, Gypsies, and other social or racial undesirables. Especially the Jewish Holocaust was almost the same as the Armenian Genocide. Although, during Hitler’s region was far worse because not just the Jews but many other non-Jews were killed.
The Holocaust was a time of devastation and corruption; it was a time of cruelty. Adolf Hitler, who started the epidemic against the Jews, tried to make the world “perfect.” Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for Germany’s economic problems which ultimately led to World War II. Hitler not only became a powerful and influential man, but also a judgmental man. Hitler blinded people with his influence.