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Germany Incident Essay

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Rudi told me a upsetting news from school. All books in German were thrown away. The Principal announced that they will no longer be teaching German. I’ve prepared myself for these kinds of news since the War Measure Act is in place since the August of 1914, but knowing that German children are forbidden to learn their culture in school is even more depressing.

Other anti-German news are all over on the radio. The corner store down the street that the kids hang out often was vandalized for the second time this month. A German day care was broke in and furnitures were stolen. More and more Germans were interned every week. They were all sent to the internment camp in remote countryside. Ukrainians, Austrians, and Hungarians faced the same …show more content…

Though many times Germans were demonized by exaggerated atrocities, Germany in fact is responsible for several cruel conducts on innocent civilians. In May this year, a German submarine sank the British ocean liner Lusitania resulting in the death of 1,200 civilians. This incident outraged the world and aggravated the punishment placed on German immigrants living in other countries. Last month, in October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by German army for helping Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium. In addition to the 200 Allied soldiers she helped, she also saved lives of Germans without discrimination. Her death rose shock, horror, and disgust in many civilized countries, where criticisms outpoured. German execution of Edith Cavell is now used as an effective propaganda in Canada, the United States, and around the world to encourage enlistment and revenge. I believe all German descendants have the same mixed feeling as I have hearing this news. The inhumane conducts make German descendants, especially those who live overseas, question and disapprove the German “kultur” (culture, which wartime propaganda refers German cruelty and barbarism). It is definitely hard for German immigrants to be blamed for their ethnicity and their former government back in their home. It makes us confused of our identity because of our disapproval of German government and the non acceptance of Canadian society. I just hope the War will come to an end soon and all the hastings and harmings on each other will

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