Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Things I learned about the Holocaust By Janelle Leppink

  1. Hitler was a very good and trustable person at the first and that everyone liked him even. I always thought that the community in Germany never wanted Hitler to be the ruler of their country and he just took over with his small band of followers. We need to be careful about the government now in our community and make sure they don’t get as powerful as Hitler and his men got.
  2. I learned that Hitler killed approximately six million people in his reign. He was a very power hungry man and I think that he needed some real help. Six million is a lot of people to kill in just a short time. Hitler was a very scary man to think about because of all the horrible things he did to the citizens of his country.
  3. I learned that Hitler really did believe that there was a superior race called the Aryan race and he really believed that a person with blonde hair and blue eyes we better than the brown hair and brown eyed people. It is kind of funny because Hitler had brown hair and brown eyes. Hypocrite huh?

The Holocaust relates to The Book Thief in that a lot of the things that they do and things that occur in the book also really happened in real life. The book burnings really happened in Germany. One of “Mamas” customers Weingarter’s have a cat named Little Goebbels. Hitler’s first hand man was named Josef Goebbels. Hitler also made the Jews feel very inferior and in the Book Thief, Hitler has caused it that a whole street is marked as Jew streets. All the doors are marked with yellow stars to signify that the family that lives there are inferior and not as important. These things really happened and the people of Germany believed them. I feel that the Book Thief really is a historical- fiction about the Holocaust.

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