Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part V and explain to your reader why the passage is significant to the text as a whole—why it is significant to Larson’s research question.
2) Find a significant quote from Part V, and in a single, well-developed paragraph, FRAME THE QUOTE (“quotation sandwich”), and explain to your reader why the quote is significant to the text as a whole.
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1) The beginning of part V says that at first glance the persecution of Jews “seemed also to have eased”. Jews who had fled from Germany in the year before had begun to return. The situation was so well masked that people in “the outside world” couldn’t see what was happening. This is relevant to the rest of the book because it is showing the slight turnaround time that Germany had. It seemed that nothing was wrong and that Germany was going uphill and recovering. This is once again is showing Hitler’s ability to manipulate others. He backed away for a little bit, yet he was still gaining power and discriminating against Jews. He had most of the world fooled on what was actually happening.
ReplyDelete2) On page 235 Hitler and Dodd are having another meeting. Hitler begins talking about the “Jewish problem”. Then, “Hitler condemned all Jews and blamed them for whatever bad felling had arisen in America toward Germany. He became enraged and exclaimed, “Damn the Jews!”. This is significant to the text because it is showing just how strongly Hitler feels about the Jews. He has a strong hate towards them and blames them for everything, which is why he is treating them so badly. He believes that America now hates Germany, and that it’s the Jew’s fault. Although it appears as if Hitler is backing away, he showed his true self and is preparing for the war he is about to start.
Paraphrase: No one is no longer sure where they can speak their mind. Listening devices are appearing everywhere. People are being found out everywhere. It is unknown whether Dodd’s house was bugged or not so they had to be careful. This is significant because slowly Germany’s freedom is being taken away. Throughout the book we have seen freedom after freedom taken, and now we are witnessing their freedom of privacy taken.
ReplyDeleteQuote: Hitler was always trying to make it seem like everything was ok. He was a master of covering things up and making it look like a murder had never happened. The persecution of Jews was hard to hide so he made it seem like it had eased up. The writer puts “At first glance, persecution of Jews seemed also to have eased.” (212)With the history Hitler has had I would say that this was a lie. He is just trying to make Germany seem like a happy place so they will have higher ratings.
1. After Marinus van der Lubbe was beheaded Germany began to become level and steady. After Anthony Eden met with Hitler he too had the assumption that Hitler really wanted peace. Hitler no longer seemed crazy, instead he was actually showing some flexibility and cooperation with surrounding nations.
ReplyDelete2. Everyone seemed to continuously come to the conclusion that Hitler wanted peace. “Hitler’s continued protestations of peace constituted the most blatant official deception.” Hitler was good at disguise. He had to have been because he had everyone fooled.
Part v
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Last paragraph on p.214
Hindenburg the only person holding Hitler back was blind to what Hitler was scheming to do. Hindenburg gave a statement that was directed to the public in honoring Hitler on how he was progressing Germany.
I chose this paraphrase because it shows how blind Hitler is keeping people to his master plan. He is gaining troops and he is Killing Jews and President Hindenburg has no clue of any of this happening comes to show how planned out Hitler really is.
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“Only twenty-five were Jews, and these, the official insisted, were held for political offenses, not because of their religion” (211).
I chose this quote because we are starting to see inside the concentration camps, and in this particular one the guess is told the Jews are held under crime not religion, I just find I awful to see how all of Hitler’s plan come together. Hitler is now starting to fool the public. It doesn’t matter if those particular Jews really were in the camp for crime that was just another excuse for Hitler to have them in custody so he could end the race.
In Part V, Hitler has continued to protest for peace and everyone has tried to make the effort to travel to the countryside of Berlin. The Jews were influenced in this movement , but everything seemed to be calm. David J. Schweitzer was the senior official of the American Joint Distribution Committee. After a certain time, the Jews left and then they all returned throughout the emigration. "Martha became consumed with Boris. Her French lover, Armand Berard, upon finding himself consigned to the background, grieved. Diels too receded, through he reminded a frequent compassion." This quote is talking about Martha meeting a new person and also a French lover. But at the same time Diels starts to back away because of what is going on between Martha and the others that are involved.
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ReplyDeletePresident Hindenburg was Hitler’s last restraint against him gaining power. On January 30th 1934, Hindenburg gave Hitler a public congratulation on his great process he had made in the year since he was promoted to Chancellor ( 214)
This quote is significant because again it shows Hitler’s rise to power and how everyone is starting to support him, like it or not. He is also a master manipulator and is keeping everyone blind to reality
The only power left to stop Hitler's rise was President Hindenburg. In 1934, Hindenburg gave a speech to show his appreciation of Hitler and his progress that had been made.
ReplyDelete“Hitler’s continued protestations of peace constituted the most blatant official deception.” In other words, Hitler used peace protests as a way to cover his own tracks in taking the Jews to camps.
In the beginning of chapter 31 "Night Terrors" from part V in the book "In the Gardens of Beast" the chapter is viewed as a big left turn in the book. The Dodd Family begin to view some of the new laws of Nazi Germany and its rules on freedom of speech when it says in the text "Where once had felt free to say anything they wished within their own home, now they experienced a new unfamiliar constraint." The Nazis were taking away citizens right and freedom of speech, livings, and eventually religion. The Hitler and his SS guards were slowly beginning to buckle down and begin their reign over the cities with his manipulating power over the people.
ReplyDeleteIn part V of the book "In the Garden of Beasts" it is a huge upscale towards Nazi Germany. Hitler is now starting to take some freedom and privacy rights away from his citizens, "Prevailing wisdom held that Nazi agents hid their microphones in telephones to pick up conversations in the surrounding rooms." It seems to be that Hitler does not trust his citizens anymore and wants to keep a close eye on his city to where he takes privacy privileges away which has a huge part in this section of the book due to showing one of Hitler's many actions of his becoming a supreme dictator.
pg. 212 first paragraph, and it reads; Death was the penalty for anyone who, "for the purpose of agitating," discussed politics or was caught meeting with others. I find that line very appeealing to the whole text because death is what happens throughout the whole book. There is a consequence for every little thing someone does whether its a jew or a guard or maybe even a leader. Everything is pretty much under surveillance. So they all have to be carfeul regardless of whats listed in the text.
ReplyDeleteIn the chapter called Saving Diels the first part of it basically goes about like this, Diels who is the leader of the Gestapo feared that he would be arrested and killed one day. He turned to Martha to talk to Messersmith who was American and thought he could help. However Messersmith said no because he disliked Martha but then rethought it because he knew the other person, Himmler, was very harsh and would be very bad politically and so he talked to Göring who would then fix everything. He did save the life of Diels but Diels was removed from his role and a more harsh person, Himmler, was put in charge of the Gestapo.
ReplyDelete“Somehow—possibly through Boris—Moscow had come to understand that Martha’s infatuation with the Nazi revolution was beginning to wane.”
We see that the position of Dodd had even an effect of how Martha was viewed by the world. Her relationship with Boris had made even Moscow see that Martha who was completely in love with Nazi “revolution” was starting to see that its not what it was supposed to be. She started to see that its actually becoming a lot worse and she can longer look at away at what was happening within Germany. Her “fluffy” look of Germany was going away and her denial started to go away and reality set in.
Slowly Germany is becoming more and more in the hole; whiles some people in Germany see that its growing and reconstructing others see something forming, something that’s coming. People think that Germany is getting better, Jewish that fled Germany are returning and people are becoming less tense around others. A man named MacMaster decided to go to a construction camp in a place called Dachau to see an inmate there. When he first arrived he thought the place had a certain beauty to it, but because of that people couldn’t see what was happening on the inside,(pg.211) “the cleanliness and efficiency of the camp had little to do with a desire to treat the inmates in a humane fashion”. This just shows how so many people where blinded by what Germany was actually planning, hid its self well from the world having them think that they were improving for the better.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The one tendency is that there is nothing to hope for, that things arer bound to get worse."
ReplyDeleteThis quote is appealing to me because not only is it true, but these people still have hope even though its not being spoken out loud in the open. Becuase if people knows that theres something going on, yeah they want it to stop, but they are not going to risk their lives to take that challenge. I believe theres a little hope in some souls.
Messersmith wanted to talk with Göring, but Messersmith had to wait for a good moment, then he told him, “I told him in very few words that a persion in whom I had absolute confidence had called on me that morning and told me that Himmler was bent on getting rid of Diels during the course of the day and that Diels was actually to be bumped off.” Göring appreciated Messersmith for these news. After this short conversation, both went back to the other people, but Göring soon left the get-together.
ReplyDeleteThis passage is really important for the text as a whole, because it shows, that even in this difficult time in foreign politics, there are parts where people and countries help each other with information. In the passage, it is a small thing for two talk with each other, but for Diels it is his life. Obviously, Messersmith’s interest is bigger than Diels life, he thinks he can prevent Himmler from becoming stronger than Göring. At this time, Göring was one of the people, the American Embassy could talk with.
In the German Reich, one goal was it to secure the system more and more. Even powerful people like Diels, who wasn’t completely stable in his opinions, had to fear to become eliminated. “If he possessed such power, Martha asked him, why was he so clearly afraid? He answered, “Because I know too much.” The danger with powerful leaders was, that they could change their minds one day and will lead to a crash of the system.
This quote is important for the text as a whole, because it shows Germany as a self-fulfilling system. Any insecurity is going to be eliminated. Also the people who want to become stronger leaders, doesn’t think of the value of a human life. They are blind in their ambition to gain more power.
In part five we figure out that Hitler has not only continued to survive as Chancellor in Germany but has thrived there. They thought that the economy would wipe him out by now but somehow it as equaled itself out in society. “The official tally of unemployed workers showed a rapid decline from 4.8 million in 1933 to 2.7 million in 1934.” Everyone has jobs and money is being made, partly because no one wants to stand up to him anymore. They all just go about everyday like there is nothing wrong with the place they live in. Some thought that the beatings and killing of Jews had stopped, so they started coming back to Germany. But in reality the persecution of them was only hidden out of plain sight.
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