Tuesday, February 22, 2011

On the nights of November 9th and 10th 1938, Nazi gangs came and demolished the Jewish villages, they burnt houses, destroyed shops and buissness and left nothing behind then shattered glass everywhere. This is known as Kristallnact. Krsitall meaning crystal and nacht meaning night. No one had the courage ton stand up or fight back because everyone knew how much Hitler and his Nazi's were capable of.

In class we read an article that really stood out to me. It was about a boy named Andre. He went to the Hitler Youth Organization. There, he and thousand other young boys and girls were taught to be completely dedicated to there master, the Fuhrer. One day when Andre came home he told his parents that he had been told to throw stones and rocks at the Jewish children and shops. He didn't know what to do, and wasn't sure if he wanted to participate in this, he nothing on them, and neither did anyone. But he was told to. He had to make a decision. And in the end he decided that he didn't want to take part in in. His family knew that if he made that decision then they would leave Germany, and so they did.

Andre was one of the very very few that didn't just except what was going on. He decided to take action and did what he felt was right. I think that if more people were like him then Hitler and his Nazis wouldn't have kept on gaining more and more power. Many people just excepted all of it, all of the nasty things that were said and done towards the Jews, many had lack of interest because they weren't being targeted and it didn't involve them.

Hitler made soo much propaganda, He was also very biased. He said so many horrible things about the Jews with no explanation to make his accusations up. Here is a poster that was painted at the time of the Holocaust.

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