Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving Demby an additional call, raised his musket to his face, taking deadly aim to the standing victim, and in an instant poor Demby was no more” (Douglass, 39). Slaveholders remain emotionless in their treatment of the slaves. Their brutal discipline is required because the slaves are important to slaveholders’ financial success. When a slave becomes unfocused, it puts a master at risk economically. Through biblical
The novel shoes the misery of war and the everlasting effects it has on the soldiers; even Baumer cannot escape those circumstances. Before the war Baumer was a nice, empathetic, and gentle person but the war has him almost disconnected from his feelings. He becomes numb to the evil surrounding him. His friends are quickly lost to the cruelty and horror of war. Some died a quick death while others died a slow, painful death, showing the reality of war.
On top of their horrible conditions, there was food, clothing, supplies, and weapon shortage. This novel truly describes how soldiers die and in what true conditions they are when in war. This book made you want to hate Germany because these young boys were in a hell hole and all authority ignored them. Even though this book was published before all Nazi violence broke out against Jews, it still seemed like a threat. The world looked at Germany as a very powerful country especially when it came to war, and this book screamed the opposite.
I pray for his safety everyday he is gone. With the ruthless Germans, you never know what you can get. But while I wallow in my country’s misery, I suppose your situation doesn’t place any better. Your country has been at war with those dirty Japs since 1937. I don’t know how I would feel about an unwanted entity in my country.
“Motivations of the People” 05/09/12 “The history of the Holocaust has no happy ending, no uplifting message of redemption. It leaves us only with human beings, with their startling capacities for good and evil, and with an awareness of the complex ties that connect victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in Nazi barbarity.” The holocaust left little for direct interpretation. Neighbors became enemies, best friends became denouncers, and anyone who had something to gain was willing to give up the people they were, to be the people that survived the war. Though not everyone was willing to place their hand on the trigger itself, the actions that proceeded might as well have been one in the same. There was a choice, there is always a choice.
Similarly the Germans and the Jews during the Holocaust were also forced into this ‘kill or be killed’ attitude. No doubt there were some Germans who did not agree with Hitler’s regime, but were too scared to stand up for their beliefs and decided to inflict suffering in order to save themselves from the same fate. This inaction caused much pain and suffering to innocent victims. Inaction can be worse than action in some cases, as not stopping the atrocities during the Holocaust was worse than inflicting them, because the victims could not stand up and save themselves. Edmund Burke epitomes this concept in a single quote, “All that is
There is no transgression that merits such punishment... and it cannot be attributed to sin." Discussion – Against During the Holocaust, the European society has shown hostility and indifference towards the hunt down on the Jews. Most of the society has watched their neighbors being taken away, attacked, robbed or hurt, and didn't react at all, even before the Nazism started to get worse, they were living next to Jews. Because of the pressure that society had and all the immorality it showed, it wasn't easy to try and help the
For example, the United Nations was created due to this catastrophe, to end the Holocaust stop it from ever happening again. Though there are still wars today, none of them are as horrible as the Holocaust was which means people have learned from their mistakes. Yes, surprising as it is we learned something from all the horrible things that happened during World War II, like that it is just inhumane for a person to want exterminate an entire race of people just because of their religion, race, gender, or sexual preferences. Overall the Holocaust was a horrific event which lead to deaths of millions and will hopefully never happen
If we go back to World War 11- when the Germans had forced the Jewish people to wear yellow stars that identify who they were. This was just so they could be placed in the concentration camps later by the Nazis. You had most Germans believing that the Jews were below them. There for they never felt anything for discriminating against them, just because of whom they were. Because they had prejudged the Jews and felt that they were not worthy to live, so they decided to kill them all.
The holocaust was a time for pain and despair. You could not show your emotions because the Nazis would see you as weak and an easy target to make suffer. One of the survivors said “If you cried, you died” and in Auschwitz that was a harsh reality. What he meant is that you had to be strong in Auschwitz or you could simply not last. Although humans have manners and are kind to one another there is still a seed of cruelty in each and every one of us.