The Sound of Music Essay

In the article, “The Boys Who Fought the Nazis” by Kristen Lewis, three teenage boys named Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi risked everything to fight the Nazis with the power of writing because they knew that Hitler was cruel and wrong. In July of 1941, Helmuth found an illegal short-wave radio that picked up foreign channels that would speak about Hitler and his terrible actions. Listening to the stations were “forbidden, and the penalties were severe” for anyone who did so in Germany (8). Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi would get together to listen to the Britain station that told what no one else in the country had the courage to say. Hitler was lying and putting his soldiers into battles that couldn’t be won. Although the boys now knew the truth about

Walter Benjamin’s statement reflects specifically on German fascism. Nazi ideologies were portrayed through the use of artistic and media forms such as radio, films, newspapers, posters, public speeches and large rallies. With them, the German government successfully persuaded the German people to subscribe to Nazi ideals. Hitler was famous for orchestrating

Everyday music engulfs us whether we are watching a show, listening to the radio, or shopping at a grocery store. Music gives humans the ability to express oneself when there is no other way. Music sparks more creativity, emotions and brain function than any other activity.

When I was in fifth grade, I was caught between two worlds, playing a woodwind or string instrument. If I played a woodwind instrument I would have to blow in it to make music, but string instruments are played with a bow to make music. After much thought, I decided that the violin was the best instrument for me, because it has a beautiful, unique sound, plus the possibilities are never-ending. I could receive a compliment from a teacher, or even get accepted to the symphony.

According to the author of Why We Watched, Theodore S. Hamerow, Anti-Semitism alone caused America not to rush to rescue the Jews from Hitler’s control. One would think the persecution by the Nazis would have fired up the Americans’ pity for the Jews under Hitler’s

On the other side, there was the Germans who were strongly against Hitler and his political Nazi Party. “I could see the danger, being so close to Hitler and the Nazi's in Munich.” (qtd. in German American Album 17) Many could see the danger that this new leader would bring, even though he mostly spoke of peace and prosperity for the German people. Though, as time went on, it was becoming clearly obvious the Hitler's policies were aimed at threatening

The piece has a strong appeal to the pathos of the public. The threat of foreign collusion and distrust of the Jews, summons nationalistic fervor among the crowd, “A potent component of political antisemitism was nationalism, whose adherents often falsely denounced Jews as disloyal citizens” (nhmm.org). The public sees a poster that displays the enemies of the war, the entities that create an existential threat to the people of Germany and it elicits a defensive, nationalistic response. Nationalism in its nature generates emotion, it draws out pride, fear, hatred, etc. It is war propaganda and it will create a defensive response and urgency to defeat these enemies who pose a major threat to Germany. The propaganda brings about a wariness of the Jews and Allies. The image immediately creates suspicion from the public. The public was being told the Jews are working with the enemy and against Germany. This suspicion forms into fear, the Jews are part of German society and they are everywhere, working against the Germans and undermining their way of life. They pose an existential crisis to Germany. As a result, the emotions morph into hatred. To the public, not only are Jews not a part of Germany and their society, but they are actively working to undermine and destroy it. This fear places them as the enemy in the war, and no enemy is given the benefit of the

It is very clear by the action the boy commits, that he values his life more than anything and he along with the other children will go to extreme measures to survive. This makes the viewers witness the apocryphal horrors everyone went through to survive during the holocaust. This scene stands out more than the other scenes because it shows how the children know the value of their life and the measures the children would go through to keep their life. At the end of the movie, the viewers see the actor of the scene and the male who made the choice. This shows that the choice the boy made in the scene impacted his life for the

As the Nazi political party, also known as the National Socialist German Workers ' Party, grew, they needed a way to keep control over and continue to influence German citizens of their ideology. The Nazi party’s propaganda is considered to be ingenious because of it’s ability to quietly influence the German citizens to the party’s hateful message. The Nazi party was also known to be effective in using the new form of media, film, to influence the younger generation. These claims are untrue because the Nazis were not always successful in influencing German citizens or in the citizens had little faith for propaganda to provide answers. Other citizens flat out did not believe the Nazi idea that the Jewish people were a subordinate race. Despite the Nazi’s near total control of the German media through film, art, posters, and the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, the Nazi party still failed to convince the whole German population of their ideology.

When considering war we believe there is a good and a bad side, in the Second World War most would conceive the Nazis to unequivocally be the enemy and therefore immoral. Perhaps this is why the chapter ‘The Good Nazi’, in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, immediately unsettles the reader as there is no irony in this statement. De Berneires presents Gunter Weber full of innocence and as someone who has simply absorbed the propaganda of the Nazis. We see his innocence portrayed in ‘The Good Nazi’; ‘Weber was a twenty-two year old man and had never seen a woman naked before… Weber was a still a virgin’.

Franz von Papen did participate in what happened to the Jews and he should have been convicted instead of being acquitted. Papen has been quoted saying that he feels guilty and feels remorse for what has happened. This is one reason that he was found not guilty because of the way that he felt. This should not have led to his acquittal but it did. There is evidence that Franz von Papen helped Hitler overrun Austria and send all his Nazis into the country. This is one reason he should have been found guilty of his doings. He was actually sentenced to time in a labor camp but appealed instantly and got released. Many people feel that he should have to give a little time back as many others feel he should give so much more than a little so they

He portrayed a young Nazi youth who went against the Nazi ideals and paid the price. Nobody really cared that he died except Friedrich and Albrecht’s own mother. The movie showed how the Nazis were horrible to their own youth and saw them as numbers for the war, not humans. At the end of the movie when the pre-credits facts appeared, the movie claimed that the students were sent to the front lines and over half died. The victims of the holocaust were not just the Jews; it was also the brainwashed children who thought that dying for their leader was worth it. There were kids who were younger than ten being told that dying in war is normal, expected, and the best thing for their country. They were being taught how to kill people with no remorse, that the Jews were evil, and that Hitler was most important. Most of the kids probably were sent there by their parents as well. Is it right to blame kids that young for being a Nazi? If Albrecht was only 15 and he was able to know everything he is learning is wrong, can we expect the other students to realize the same thing? Are they innocent and the school brainwashed them? Can Nazi children even be considered Nazis? There are so many questions relating to a film about how German children are treated by their own government and there is no clear

Therefore, this film is not only a testimony about the German past but also the German present. It displays the irrational annihilation of six young Germans at the end of WWII, summoning up a very agonizing recollection of Nazi Germany’s futile effort to turn back the Allied invasion by hurling teenage boys into the

I’m sure you’ll all agree when I say that music is changing very fast. It’s either that or we keep changing our tastes in music every five minutes – which is far more probable. Today if someone put on a record from just 10-20 years ago we’d probably think of that music as being incredibly old or very simple. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand to watch some (if not most) of the early Top of the Pops because the music is so old. We think of this as being old, but in

The life of a middle class German, who was not Jewish, and supported the Nazi party lived an idyllic life. From the Powerpoint, to the BBC video, even the Oral History many of these people lived a happy life that was free from suffering. They believed Adolf Hitler was their savior for getting them out the Great Depression. For giving them jobs and food when needed the most. These Germans had a better life than a German whose views opposed the Nazi regime or those who were Jewish or of Jewish descent. The middle class German thriving at this time looked the other way and willed themselves to be blind to what Germany truly was.