The Teaching Of The Nazis In The Wave By Ben Ross

Hitler and the Holocaust is a very informational novel written by Robert S. Wistrich that not only explains this horrible time in history, but also gives us a look into the mind of Hitler and Nazi ideology. This book is not just centered on Hitler and Germany as it my sound, antisemitism spread like a plague all across Europe even before the Holocaust took place. In this work, Wistrich is not making an argument, but is trying to find an explanation on why so many inhumane actions were allowed.

"My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes... That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication... That is how I will create the New Order."

The Wave is a story about a high school senior class that has been intrigued to join their teacher’s cult known as the Wave. Several people tried to prevent the denial of his movement. Laurie Saunders the main character in the wave, is a rebellious girl who is very ashamed of this movement and is not inspired by her history teacher. He shows them a very emotional video of what Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party did. Some of the students take it more personal than others do. Because of Laurie’s bravery, independence, and determination, Laurie denies the Wave.

Hitler’s rise to power was the result of many factors, but Hitler’s ability to take advantage of Germany’s poor leadership and economical and political conditions was the most significant factor. His ability to manipulate the media and the German public whilst taking advantage of Germany’s poor leadership resulted in both the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and the nazi party. During the early 1920s, Germany was struggling with economic instability and political uncertainty. Germany, after being defeated in the Great War, was forced to sign the unforgiving treaty of Versailles, which the Weimar Republic was held responsible for. This brought forward feelings of fear, anger and

In his memoirs entitled Inside Third Reich Albert Speer depicts his time as Adolf Hitler’s head architect and a very close personal friend. Their friendship lasted nearly 12 years ending when HItler committed suicide in his bunker. After the war Speer was certain that he would be sentenced to death by hanging like many of the other nazi generals were. Instead he was sentenced to a 20 year sentence in Spandau prison. He was granted this sentence and not death because of his convincing case he made at the Nuremberg trials. Speer claimed that he had was aware of the use of Jews as unpaid slaves, however he was unaware of the Final Solution(1) or the horrendous conditions in the labor camps. Yet the Gauleiter of Thuringia, Ernst Sauckel reported

1) Germany before the Fuhrer. Germany’s defeat at the end of World War I left the nation socially, politically, and economically shattered. The reparation agreements inflicted upon Germany without its’ consent at the end of the war meant that the nation was in complete financial ruin. In the wake of Germany’s defeat, public decent climaxed on the 9th November 1918 during the revolution that took place on Berlin’s Postdamer Platz. This revolution transpired as a result of the public’s culminating discontent towards the imperial monarchy, and lasted up until August 1919, which saw the establishment of the Weimar Republic. In attempts to guide Germany out of economic

The Wave, by Todd Strasser, is a novel about a school-wide experiment about how the German people could have followed Hitler and the Nazis. Two characters Laurie Saunders and Robert Billings showed a dramatic change in their actions, popularity, and their emotions from the Wave experiment. Together they had a huge impact at their school, Gordon High.

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz is an intriguing read. Koonz’s thesis in the book is that Nazis, being a large party, were mostly of different mindsets, they had differing morals. Koonz writes about the party and how it got most of its fundamental bases. She talks about who brought eugenics to the table, and how Hitler convinced the people of Germany to be a part of the Nazi organization. She also writes about the radical members and what was done to keep them in line.

Peter Fritzche’s book, Germans into Nazis, contends that, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations…however, voters did not back Hitler mainly because they share his hatred of the Jews…but because they departed from established political traditions in that they were identified at once with a distinctly popular form of ethnic nationalism and with the basic social reforms most Germans counted on to ensure national well-being.” (8-9) His argument rests on the notion that the Nazis had a vision for Germany that incorporated Germans into a national community, throwing off the restraints of a tired government, and propelled them towards a future that would

Why did the Holocaust occur? Why did people not try to put an end to the cruel and vicious Nazi behavior earlier on? In Todd Strasser’s novel The Wave, the students at Gordon High School also pondered these questions. In response, their history teacher, Ben Ross, creates an experiment designed to give his students a sense of what living in Nazi Germany would have actually been like. Mr. Ross does this by creating The Wave, a rule intensive, highly structured movement. In The Wave, the students are all equal and they learn strength through discipline, community, and action. However, Mr. Ross and the members of The Wave do not realize the trance like state that The Wave has put them in. They take this small experiment way too far

Have you ever been so into a school assignment you became addicted? The wave is a very intriguing novel written by todd strasser,about a senior history class that is researching the holocaust! They take a bit more of an interest than the teacher had anticipated causing him to come up with a rather extravagant method to help them better understand the event! Students prefer exposure to discipline to keep their lives structured and efficient.To better understand the wave it is very important to see it in different view points; a postive viewpoint by brian collins,a negative view point by laurie saunders,and then finally in the teacher view point.once you see all the view points you too will understand discipline is the ultimate tool to unity and maximum life results.

Ben Ross showed his students a documentary about the Holocaust. He was upset when he realized that his students asked question about the Holocaust that he couldn't explain. As he wanted his stundents to have a better understanding on this topic, he decided to start an experiment that would help his students to learn how it was possible for the Nazis gaining control without someone stopping them.

The Success of Nazi Policies Toward Education and Youth Hitler and the Nazi party had a range of policies to control education and the German youth. This was mainly to ensure loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi party. Some believed in these policies and other did not but it was fear and glory and the fear of social inadequacy that made most comply. Hitler and the Nazis wanted to control the education system and youth by controlling the teachers, pupils and the curriculum.

The leaders of the Nazi party made it one of the most infamous groups to lead a nation in history. The horrible things done under their rule and with their stamp of approval has made the term Nazi one of the worst possible. The amazing thing about the Nazi party is that many of the main aspects of their ideology existed in Germany even before they formed or came to power. Some of the major aspects of Nazi ideology such as antisemitism, the desire to expand the German empire, and the belief in the strength of the Aryan race existed in Germany years before Adolf Hitler was a name anyone in Germany would recognize.