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How Is Carl Lutz Similar To Carl Lutz's Life

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In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which is still used today to save lives and cure people. He is similar to Carl Lutz because they both did something amazing, but Lutz even risked his life to save all the people he could. Carl Lutz has sacrificed his life for others, risked his job and family for others, and set an example for all other people after him for what he needs to be done for those in danger. Carl Lutz did a lot for other people, but risking his life may have been the greatest thing that he did for them. Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat tasked with getting as many people out of Hungaria as possible. By the time he started his job, the Hungarians had begun to deport Jews to extermination camps. He was able to get the …show more content…

What Lutz sacrificed is being truly unselfish, and he should receive more credit for all that he did. As previously mentioned, the Germans would have had Lutz executed if they found all that he did, which some of it being technically illegal, also disregarding the original role that his job held. If the Germans did find out about Lutz, they wouldn’t have just stopped with him, even before they executed him or sent him to a concentration camp, they would’ve gone and executed his family. They would have executed his daughter and wife, before Lutz, because they would want to show Lutz that what he did was not acceptable at all. They would also want him to suffer and see his own family executed before his very eyes, so that he would truly, get the point passed across to him. If he didn’t get caught by the Germans though, and caught by his own Swedish government instead at the time of his law breaking, he would’ve fired quickly and disregarded by his country and government. He was given the job to get as many people out of Hungaria as he could, legally. It’s not that he wasn’t doing his job to the best of his ability, but the way that he fulfilled his requirements. The government wouldn’t be angry at him for all the extra people he saved, but going outside of their government’s law but also international law. If they had kept him as a diplomat if other governments found out

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