Nazism

Assignment: Choose either a passage from this blog and write out the way in which we have done all the assignments 1) Quote; 2) Interpretation; 3) Why you chose the quote. Or choose a scene from the movie, describe it, interpret it, and explain why you chose this scene. 

"In February, the Reichstag is set on fire. The Nazis blame the Communists for the fire and under the pretext of a terrorist attack, the Reichstag Fire Decrees are passed immediately and the Enabling Act is passed in March 1933 granting Hitler’s government full dictatorial powers. All of the communists and about a ¼ of the social democratic representatives in the Reichstag are forcibly prevented from voting for this law. Only the leftovers of the SPD vote against the Enabling Act, the centrist and conservative parties vote for the Enabling Act. This act gives permanent emergency powers to the German Chancellor, Hitler, who promptly suspends all civil and political liberties. The constitution remains in effect but from this point on it is just a formality. Political parties are dissolved except for the Nazi party and it becomes illegal to form new parties. The government begins cracking down on communists, artists, intellectuals, trade unionists, social democrats, and other political opponents. Feminists are attacked, as are homosexuals as traditional patriarchic values are forcibly re-established. Jews and all racial minorities are persecuted and denied any legal protection. The first concentration camp is created at Dachau, near Munich, the birthplace of Nazism in 1933. Around the cultural center of Weimar, also the former capital of the government, which represents the highest achievements of German art and humanism, the Buchenwald concentration camp is constructed in 1937 (along with hundreds more). Buchenwald is the first and Dachau is the second concentration camp liberated by the U.S. and allies in 1945, this was the first confirmation for the West of the true horrors of the Nazi regime".

    This passage talks about Hitler's raised to power. He can be consider a cheater because he used lies to gain control. He took over the nation in a blink of an eye. The way he gained so much control and power over the Germans is frighting. He denied his own people their rights and put everyone into categories. The U.S. and allies in 1945,were able to free Jews of the horrible conditions they were living and the horrible treatment they were receiving.
    I choose this passage because I have always felt that Hitler is a monster. He made many Jews suffer and the conditions they were in the concentration camps were horrible and inhumane. He even treated Germans as his pets because they had a constitution that was worth nothing, their rights were thrown to the trash and they were his puppets to do as he pleased. The cruelty of his actions I feel will never be forgotten by the world and is unbelieved that many people claim that the horrors Jews lived during his dictatorship never happened.