However in my opinion this is not what one should take away from the poem. In fact the literal meaning is much deeper and darker than one may think. The literal meaning of the poem to me is the justification for mass murder of the Jews during World War II by the Nazis. The first stanza seems to show the farmer wants to rid of the woodchucks quickly and effectively without spending too much time on them. In fact the poem states “The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick at the bone”.
“Hitler’s concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history… and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination – by starvation and uneven combat – of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”[12] The term “Final solution” was not coined by the Nazis. It was General of the US Army William Tecumseh Sherman, who plotted out the panned murder to take care of the “Indian problem.” Over 100
Hitler aimed gradually to purify the German race, and this would be achieved by eliminating racial mixing, to create in von Shirach’s words “the perfect and complete human animal- the superman” the main obstacle to this as Hitler thought was the “eternal enemy”, the Jews. There is no historical topic that is protected to controversy, even the holocaust. There are three debates concerning this event. The first is whether it happened or not, the huge majority of historians accept that the evidence for holocaust is overwhelming. A small minority consider that the gas chambers were the creations of the Allied propaganda.
The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it. The Germans received blame for a crime that followed the rules of war blockades. America shames the Germans for killing civilians warned of the possible danger. Finally, the Lusitania allowed for the British to win in a win-win situation that their government
There are many similarities between Mr. Frederick in Animal Farm and Hitler; the events in the book are comparable to real events that took place in World War II. After looking at these, it becomes clear who Orwell modeled Mr. Frederick after. Mr. Frederick from Animal Farm is Animal Farm’s crafty and cruel neighbor. After the initial animal rebellion, he pretended to be sympathetic toward Jones, but was inwardly thinking of ways he could benefit from Jones’ misfortune. During the timber selling incident, Napoleon first denounced Frederick as an evil man who tortured animals, and told the animals that the other contestant, Mr. Pilkington, was a good man.
That is what a lot of people asked themselves and still ask themselves until this day. To put it briefly, Fussel’s argument states that war was savage for invasion forces and killing civilians of Japan was the only way to avoid a Japanese invasion. In complete disregard to civilian lives, he believes the atomic bomb may have killed many but that it saved many more. Walzer believes that dropping the atomic bomb was inhumane and that war is all about the choices that you make. Walzer makes many valid points that forced me to change
The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it. Based on Just War Theory, the proportionality of killing these people is that their deaths are outweighed by the justice that will bring to the judicial system. Shelton believes the system to be corrupt, focusing instead on conviction rates rather than making sure the right person is placed behind bars. By killing these people Shelton can put a new mindset into the “system” because those affected by the killings will want the right man punished rather since they now know how it feels to be wronged. All the killings made by Shelton were to people who were directly showed how flawed the system was.
The peace of the mighty proved that to be wrong. The German Army in the field, although battered was still formidable in the eyes of the German leadership. They had gone to the peace table hoping for scraps and got the business end of the newspaper. The German Peace Delegation was forced to assume blame for the war, and then sit helplessly by as territories it felt were largely inhabited with Germans were made part of other states. The Germans had come to the table hoping to hear Wilson saying, “the equality of nations upon which peace much be founded on if it is to last must be an equality of rights..” (German Peace Delegation, p. 76) Instead they were hit with several Billion reichmarks in reparations, a reduced military and many other limitations politically, economically, militarily and territory wise (The Versailles Treaty, 1918).
With all of the media reporting executions like movies, societies become desensitized and accept death penalty as the right way to take care of criminals. By sentencing a person with death, society degrades itself to the level of criminals who have committed atrocious
The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inevitable. When faced with the dilemma of sacrificing many foreign, innocent lives in order to save millions of American lives; the United States made the right decision. Nowadays people speculate over whether or not the United States was justified in dropping the bombs. People can ponder over what ifs all they want, but the end result was just the one that the States wanted, an unconditional surrender of Japan. Offerings had already been made to this extremist country, yet they were set in their ways and had the audacity to believe that they were superior to the United States.