The Holocaust “By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lords work” (Harran 50). This quote is the exact words of the worlds most accomplished mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. His goal was to exterminate the complete Jewish race, to make room for the “Aryan” race. “Jews have been discriminated against, hated, and killed because prejudiced non-Jews believed they belonged to the wrong religion, lacked citizenship qualifications, practiced business improperly, behaved inappropriately, or possessed inferior racial characteristics” (Harran 41). Due to the hatred that was formed against the Jewish people, over the years of 1933 to 1945, about six million innocent people lost their lives.
Eli uses vivid details and depressing stories to engrave this mass murder of innocent lives on the hearts of the book’s readers. Eli wrote this book so the world could never forget this tragic time in humanity’s history and to possibly prevent it from ever happening again. The book was very engulfing but sullen. I
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”.
This unspecified and detached account of this action and the death in general, shows the way in which the members of the platoon deal with the complexity of the war experience. So much so that O’Brien is able to turn the story of Curt Lemon to a love story. Many go into a war story expecting to hear about triumph, pride, courage, and sacrifice. However, O’Brien claims that a true war story will shatter all previous expectations of a war story and instead be about evil and more obscene things. O’Brien says, “A true war
Slaughterhouse Five Essay Question 3 War has the ability to affect and inspire people to many degrees. It was the horrors of World War II that inspired Kurt Vonnegut to write Slaughterhouse Five, a unique anti-war novel in which the main character, Billy Pilgrim, has become “unstuck in time” and travels simultaneously through phases of his life, concentrating on his shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Throughout this novel, Vonnegut uses scientific motif and narrative structure to cope with the emotional impact of war, enhancing the overall meaning that our existence is finite; death is the only constant. Kurt Vonnegut injects elements of science fiction with Billy’s belief in Tralfamadorians, aliens who have a four dimensional view that time does not flow, that all moments exist concurrently and it is only an illusion if they appear to have any linearity. After the unexpected death of his wife Valencia, Billy begins to seriously advocate this view for it helped him mitigate the pain of what seemed like wrongful death.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some conspiracy theorists believe that the deliberate extermination of 6 million Jews in the Nazi concentration camps is simply a conspiracy intended to discredit Hitler. They do not deny that Jews were interned in prison camps during World War II but argue that the number of deaths was greatly exaggerated. They say that the pictures of emaciated people and bodies stacked like cord wood were actually of Poles and Germans who died of typhus rather than being the victims of mistreatment. They maintain that gas chambers were just a rumor. To buy into this revisionist view one would need to discount the mountain of pictorial and first-hand witness evidence available, but that’s never stood in the way
Leaders like Adolf Hitler believe that brutality and physical strength is indeed needed to gain respect from the people and to win the war. In Adolf Hitler’s eyes “brutality is respected.” Germany feared Hitler, and the world let him go as far as the Holocaust. The causes of this belief lead to well over 6 million deaths of innocent people. Yet neither Hitler nor Germany has gained anything from all the deaths. Instead, after World War II, Hitler committed suicide, and Germany plunged into years of living in destruction.
Who sent millions of men to die almost pointless deaths? It wasn’t Axis, that’s for sure. During war there are no ‘good guys’, there are only bad guys and worst guys. As far as facts goes the countries against Axis were the worst guys during wartime and even outside of wartime. America officially joined the war on December.7th, 1941.
The Highwaymen were the scandalous criminals that patrolled the highways and traffic roads to scavenge for useful goods. “With the use of the Hydrogen Bomb, the Christian era was dead, and with it must die the tradition of the good Samaritan” (page 84). After the many atomic bombs destroyed Orlando and other major cities, the survivors went against each other and become either hostile criminals or bystanders trying yo avoid to confliction. “Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan” (page 132). The villainous Highwaymen, drug addicts, and gangsters all came apart at the seams when their lifestyles changed for the worse.
is by far the most regretful and inconsiderate action (to its citizens/passengers) the nation could have taken at such a war-driven time period in history. In Germany, newspaper reports on the sinking stated to its readers, “the Lusitania was an ‘armed cruiser’ carrying munitions and other war supplies and was therefore a legitimate target” (Ballard 126). Oceanographer and underwater archaeologist, Dr. Robert Ballard explains in an recent personal interview, “I was interested in what really sank the ship since the German submarine only fired one torpedo yet there were two explosions with the second being the more powerful of the two” (Robert D. Ballard). Germany had a strong belief that the U.S. was using passenger ships to send aid to enemy countries like the British and at this time, the U.S. already had numerous powder and explosive factories that produced war materials in mass