What I Saw : Reports From Berlin

The lives of the people in Berlin were impacted by a result of hostility, making

The following is a critique of the article “Good Times, Bad Times: Memories of The Third Reich” by Ulrich Herbert. In this critique, I will explore the themes of the article, discuss the main arguments, and address the significance of the author’s insight to the world of Nazi Germany.

While working at a bank, Wallenberg heard stories of German Soldiers taking Jews as prisoners. In the early 1940’s he took a job at a Jewish-owned food exporting company. The owner could not safely travel for business, so Wallenberg took his place. By going on these trips he become familiar with Stockholm,

The book written by Christopher R. Browning titled Ordinary Men is an interesting, engaging, anomaly in the genre of non-fiction books pertaining to the topic of World War Two and the Holocaust. Browning’s analysis of what possessed ordinary German men, who’s ideas where non pertinent in relation to Nazism is one worthy of academic study and discourse. Browning is delving into the intricacies of what specifically pushed “ordinary” men in the Reserve Police Battalions 101 of Nazi Germany to perpetrate the action of moving thousands of Polish Jewry into box cars, and sequentially taking part in perhaps the worst enormity in human history. Browning’s argument is an ever unsettling one, an argument that reveals to the reader what “normal” people

Limitations exist amongst her interpretation of East Germany narrowing the audience that Funder attempts to permeate with obscure knowledge stored in the minds of endless victims. The subjective thoughts presented put a taint on the knowledge received, one can only consider her truth with a level of exactness if they too were raised in similar conditions as Funder. Therefore it provides the ability to compare the lifestyle you consider worthy of human activity with the occurrences in East Germany, whilst allowing perspective to be manipulated by experience in the environment Funder observes. The inclusion of judgements and conclusions provides us to interpret the situation further, due to her acknowledgement that we should not necessarily believe her – “You know they want to stop thinking about the past. They want to pretend it all didn’t happen”. Funder’s lack of experience prior to her journey makes her understanding of the past narrow. She is intent on the idea that revealing and using your past to create a future is necessary. The GDR controls the associated people to this day, without an appropriate explanation of the happenings it has left them with the inability to piece together the numerous aspects embedded in their thoughts. The missing parts dominate these

I have to admit that I had lost contact with my dear Jew friend, Aaron Bauer. It was unfortunate, but I sincerely believed that our decision was to lift each other’s burden and to protect this friendship. Integrating with one another had been a grave danger for both my wife and I, and Bauer understood our situations. I was no longer part of our secret Communist cell, for most of our Jewish members had dissolved into their separate ways following the aftermath of the Nuremberg Laws. Moreover, my wife and I had been busy with our full-time employment in the Volkswagen factory, for the KdF had promise us many trips and also the “People’s car.” There was time when I was excited about the KdF, but I immediately direct my thoughts to my Communists

This humiliating act made by the German worker demonstrates the immense inequality and degradation between two people. It is clear that characterization plays a big role in Night and not only does it show how inhumane these humans were treated but it is obvious that even people who seem innocent can perform cruel acts. In order to have a greater understanding of how unfair life was, setting helps paint a picture of how cruel many were treated during these dreadful

Your memoir, Night, drastically changed my view on the world; more specifically, I now sympathize more with individuals who are experiencing a struggle of any kind. This is a result of the brutal details that forced you to create a vivid image of the situation at hand. Before reading Night, I never truly took the time to imagine what it would be like to be in these tragic situations. Therefore, I would like to thank you for bringing this inhumane flaw I possessed to light. The first account of me realizing this flaw, occurred because of the Nazis’ brutality.

Before the ghettos. Before the train rides, marches, and concentration camps. Eliezer had never experienced such violence against others, much less himself. The Nazi’s ruled with fear; which was instilled with violence. One example of the theme of violence being developed

My goal with my research is to look into the resistance of both the Jewish people and the others in European society who assisted in Jewish escapes. The perceived image of the Jews during the Holocaust is of “lambs to the slaughter.” The pictured painted of the rest of European society is one of either knowing accomplices or silent spectators. The Jewish people had many forms of resistance, some small and some large. While many of their neighbors were silent spectators, but many people were actively resisting the tyrannical Nazi government by assisting Jewish escapes. Each of these individuals risked their lives and the lives of their families and friends to aid these hunted individuals. They all deserve to have their stories heard and honored. In a time of complete chaos and destruction many people would not have the ability or fortitude to save the life of another person. The people that I will discuss in this paper were not only able to take that step, but put themselves and their families in real and eminent danger for the life, at times, of a complete stranger.

During transportation of Wiesel’s pity of prisoners through villages, “many Germans watched” them with “no surprise”, the guards began to flirt with “some young German girls”. There is a juxtaposition formed between two universes: the impoverished Jews and the typical, casual, German citizens. Such juxtaposition coupled with the casual reaction of the Germans portrays how naturalised the Jews were in their sub-human state. However, due to how natural the situation seems, there is a more disturbing analogy embedded in it; that of a group of farmers’ herding their drove. From this analogy, it can be understood why German citizens reacted so indifferently to the Jews; to them, empathising with the Jews was equivalent to empathising with animals. Dehumanisation created a barrier that would impede the natural flow of empathy – the Nazis had truly forged a universe where Jews could be massacred “like cattle in the

The year was 1943. Jews were no longer safe in Czechoslovakia. As a result of this, Roth's family moved to Hungary where it was still safe for Jews to live. However, they weren't safe there for long. The Hungarian government decided to eliminate the Jewish community of Hungary.

The Berlin Bar, otherwise called the Berlin Carrier, was the main real emergency of the cool war. June 26, 1948 is the point at which the airdrop started. On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union obstructed all street and rail go to and from West Berlin, which was situated inside the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany. The Soviet activity was because of the refusal of American and English authorities to permit Russia more say in the monetary eventual fate of Germany. The U.S. government was stunned by the provocative Soviet move, and some in President Harry S. Truman 's organization required an immediate military reaction. Truman, be that as it may, did not have any desire to bring about World War III. Rather, he requested a huge airdrop of supplies into West Berlin. On June 26, 1948, the principal planes took off from bases in Britain and western Germany and arrived in West Berlin. It was an overwhelming logistical assignment to give nourishment, garments, water, medication, and different necessities of life for the more than 2 million dreadful nationals of the city. For about a year, American planes arrived day and night. More than 200,000 planes conveyed in more than one-and-a-half million tons of supplies. 1 I discovered three students of history who had diverse perspectives on what really happened amid the Berlin Transport. Their names take after: Robert G. Mill operator, Daniel Altman, and Brian C. Etheridge.

When looking into the history of Germany and determining what led to the startling rise in Nazism in Germany and its detrimental effects on the social outcasts in Europe, it can be easy to deduce that the Nazi regime was one where Hitler walked in with his officials and took office by force. The truth is that, while the Nazi party is responsible for the atrocities that occurred before and during WWII, they would have not gotten far if it hadn’t been for the cooperation of the German people themselves. Life in the Third Reich provides proof through voting, youth programs and village life that the Nazi party rose into power with German support.

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