Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Ch 2 A Small Town in Germany

After reading chapter two, I felt really sad for what Marion's family had to go through. No person should have to live in fear for being a ethnicity, having a certain religion, or for any other reason. I can not believe how many Germans and others went along with Hitler's plan. It is extremely disheartening to know how people can be uncompassionate and selfish. I cannot understand how Hitler's plan was put into action and how far it went before anyone stepped in to stop it. The Blumenthal's must have had a hard time deciding on when they should leave because Germany because they didn't want to leave the grandparents but also were in fear for their own lifes and well being.

1 comment:

  1. Indeed, no person should live in fear for being a certain ethnicity, race or disabled. There was a time when disabled people were highly marginalized.
    In fact that was the case in Nazi German. Hitler
    oppressed the disabled as well as others.

    Interesting comments thus far. I look forward to reading subsequent reflections. Try to work on developing though provoking questions.

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