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Hitler wanted to create a pure race that suited his ideologies. A perfect race with blue eyes and blonde hair. This idea is well defined when Mark’s Mother says, “ A pure Aryan race, so he had to get rid of anyone who didn’t fit his idea, anyone who was different… “. – Pg 23

Finally, many purely hated Jews because they were not Aryan. Germany was one of these countries. Hitler, the leader of Germany, has carried hate for the Jews since early childhood. Primarily, he blamed them for his mother’s death along with him not getting into his dream school, Vienna Art College. Also, they were blamed by Germany for defeat in WWI and as the cause for unemployment. However, mainly Jews were persecuted because of the way they looked. At the time, Hitler wanted a racially pure Germany. He believed that by adapting the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest, he would be able to create a stronger generation and kill those that are impure or disabled.

There are many characters of allegorical nature in this novel, though two of the most important are Hans Hubermann, as well as Viktor Chemell. Hans Hubermann as an allegory represents the resistance against the S.S. forces. From the start of the novel, Hans clung to his morals for dear life, never wanting to let them go, even when it caused him to be drafted into the S.S. army. His is the emobdiement of the German resistance, and therefore courage and hope for all, as he did everything he could to suppose those he saw that needed help, even helping a random Jewish man that looked sickly, even close to death, so “Hans Hubermann held his hand out and presented a piece of bread, like magic” (Zusak 394). For this, Hans and the Jewish man were both punished by being whipped, and Max even left their house in order to protect the family from being caught, as Hans was already being called “a Jew love” (Zusak 395), and there was a lot of fear of the army searching their house for evidence against them, so that they could be sent to the camps as well. As for young Viktor Chemmel, he and his friends show resemblance of Hitler and his main group of followers. They knew who was poor, and therefore who did not have access to food, even if he himself was extremely rich and needed nothing else, and even acts like he deserves everything, saying “We must take what is rightfully ours!”

Setting’s Role in Daniel Half Human Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz is a fictional narration of Daniel Kraushaar, a teenage boy of German descent who swept up into the rapidly growing nazi movement in the 1930’s. Daniel and his best friend, Armin, had high hopes of one day belonging to the HJ, also known as the Hitler Youth. They even go as far as being arrested one night for painting Nazi slogans on buildings. In Daniel’s household lives his mother, the daughter of Jewish parents who have never belonged to the Jewish community, and his father, a prominent attorney and decorated World War I veteran. Daniel never knew that his mother was of jewish descent, because she never belonged to the jewish community so she lived believing that

The courage in the people of Germany during WWII caused them to take chances in order to stay alive, do the right thing despite the sacrifices and resist Nazi propaganda. In Germany during WWII anyone who resisted the Nazis would receive punishment. “ Hans blew it online verge of joining the party. Everyone knew you weren’t supposed to paint over the slurs written on a Jewish shop front” (Zusak 104). Hans was a very skilled painter and one day decided to go and paint over the slurs the Nazis had written on Jewish shops. Hans did this on purpose because everyone knew you would be punished for erasing Nazi propaganda. This reveals that Hans and also other Germans resisted the Nazis despite the consequences. They chose to resist their propaganda because they did not agree with it. In the novel there was various incidents were courage

The greatest problem in the story is that the nazi have taken over, and the way they treat jews. All throughout the story the jews are treated as less and

Jews were discriminated during this time. They were treated unfairly. An example of how they were treated is from the book, “every jew had to wear a yellow star.” ( Wiesel, 11) They wore this because the Nazis wanted to single them out because of who they were. When they were in concentration camps, the prisoners had to shave their head bald and dress in rags. “ He ultimate affront to their identity was replacing of every prisoner’s name with a number.” ( The Guardian) Their own identities were taken away. “Hitler’s racial notions were implemented by measures that increasingly excluded jews from German society.” ( Holocaust Denial) Adolf HItler and the Nazi party were anti-semitic toward jews. That means

One of Hitler’s many ambitions for Germany was to achieve total Aryan supremacy. Hitler wanted to make all Germans perfect physical specimens. All of them tall and strong with blue eyes and blond hair though he himself was short, with brown eyes and hair. Hitler claimed that the Germans were the purest Aryans and therefore superior to all other peoples. Hitler made sure that all Germans knew this, he told the German people what they wanted to hear, that they were in fact the master race and that they were superior to any other persons. Although many were opposed to Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremacy the German people supported him enthusiastically regardless.

Going against what your parents tell you to do is scary, but imagine going against Hitler and his prestigious regime. In the book, The Boy Who Dared, it is 1933 in Germany. Helmuth Huebner is an eight year old german boy who was at first caught up in the hype of the Nazi Regime, but soon realized it is not how it seems to be. In 1938 Helmuth is 13 years old. This is when his viewpoint on the Nazi regime starts to take a turn in the opposite direction. He is scolded by his middle school teacher for disrespecting the Nazi flag. Later that night, he is scolded by his brother-in-law, who is a Nazi officer, for not writing his paper on how great the Nazis are. This makes him realize the Nazi are up to something else other than trying to save the country from inflation and starvation. His life continues to go downhill from this day on. The characters, events, and theme of the story make this a good book for people to understand how unfair life was back then and that history should never be repeated.

From 1933 through 1945 was a period of history called the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, people were being killed for their looks, race, and disability. About 11 million people were killed in brutal and tragic ways. Adolf Hitler, the leader, wanted to create a pure race. Racism helped Hitler organize the population into the way he wanted. He wanted people to support the cause of making a pure race. If people opposed, they would be persecuted. Racism allowed Hitler to influence the German people into following his leadership even if it meant genocide.

The members of the national socialists party such as Hitler, the Commandant and Lt Kotler contribute to the novel’s portrayal of prejudice and discrimination, contrasting the horrific nature of this period in history with Bruno’s purity. For Example, "Ah,those people," said Father, nodding his head. "Those people...well there not people at all, Bruno" p.53. This quote perfectly describes the prejudice and discrimination the Jews encountered, particularly through their dehumanisation. This is a perfect example of a child "inheriting" his father's prejudice towards a specific culture,“And I can speak French too,” she added … “yes but why would you want to?” asked the Fury” p.122 , which illustrates

The Nazi’s discrimination towards the Jews is also a very cruel act that most people are not capable of understanding the reason why they did it. The signs of discrimination are shown in the film. The Nazis let them run around naked during the medical

Adolf Hitler actually did not have blue eyes or blond hair, nor was Hitler very tall at all. But since he was their almighty der furher they didn’t question if he needed to be just like the aryans he created in fact he wrote in one of his daily journals, “ If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” which is probably why he was able to get away with not meeting the aryan race qualification standards. Hitler painted a picture of himself to all of germany, a picture showing that he was the almighty cleansing benevolent der Furher. And that He could be the only one to make Germany the Greatest even if his Aryan qualifications did not suit

Hitler represented the Nazi party they wanted to kill off has many Jews as he could, they believed if they did this Germany would recovery from world war 1, also, they believed in a national community formed by so called racially pure people the Nazi party believed there should only be pure Germans. Blonde hair and blue-eyed Germans, they felt if you weren’t a pure German you weren’t a person.

To begin, before the initiation of WW2, Hitler enforced extremely strict policies on the country of Germany. For instance, Hitler emphasized amongst the population, a clear divide between those who were Volksgenossen (pure German blood) and Gemeinshcaftsfremade (outsiders) (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Visible distinctions were forced to be worn by the latter group such as the Star of David on those who were Jewish (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). The divide amongst the population was created mainly due to antisemitism which was extremely prevalent throughout the time. For example, Jewish people were blamed for Germany’s loss in WWI and in return, their businesses were boycotted, those who were lawyers got disbarred from practicing and their German citizenship was revoked (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Additionally, police