Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part VII 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 VII, 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) Paraphrase- After “the purge” the Dodd family learned about a new saying that was going around Berlin. It was “Lebst du noch?” which in English meant “Are you still among the living?” (321) This quote is showing just how deadly this event was. They asked “are you still among the living?” rather than “are you dead?” because there were so many people who were killed. This is relevant to the text because it is showing the harshness of Berlin during this time. Hitler’s wrath is in full swing, and still nobody is stepping up to end him and his reign of power.
ReplyDelete2) Quote- “Sunday morning was cool, sunny, and breezy. Dodd was struck by the absence of any visible markers of all that had occurred during the past twenty-four hours. “It was a strange day,” he wrote, “with only ordinary news in the papers.” (319) This is the day after “the purge”. I see this as people still being afraid of Hitler. Newspapers feared to put any of the information about the deaths in the news, because Hitler may come after them as well. This relates back to Larson’s research question, “why didn’t anybody stop Hitler?”, because people are afraid of him. He has such a power and sense of control that people honestly fear to speak out against him.
In Part VII, "There was a sense of suffocation. Drab trucks blocked the vistas of the park. And there was heat. It was evening, well after six, but the sun was still high and hot." This quote is talking about the changes that were going on in Berlin. Everything started to get very heated. Martha and Boris was there when all of this was happening and then they ended up running into a dark room. "Though Dodd didn't agree with Papen's political machinations and the past behavior in the United States, he was able to like the guy and had enjoyed sparring with ever since their dinner confrontation at the Little Press Ball." Dodd was getting close with is guy, and having the meeting with him helped to motive him to rethink the whole idea of Hitler being executed without a trial.
ReplyDeleteA purge had taken place in which no one really knew the body count of the victims. However, Nazi soldiers say it was less than one hundred. All of the victims were killed because of religion or politics. General Schleider was also killed. He was shot seven times, and found with his wife by his daughter who at the time was seven years old. Hitler had done terrible things, yet seemed to be in no distress over the murders of whom they thought to be his friends.
ReplyDeleteHitler was a heartless man, yet in the beginning no one could see it. “It was clear that the murders of his friends had cost him no effort at all, Gisevius wrote. He had felt nothing; hehad merely acted out of rage.” Hitler’s true colors are showing. How could someone murder those considered friends and be “untroubled” by such acts?
“What the caller said next captured Birchall’s full attention ‘Apparently a lot of people are being shoot.’” In this section of In the Garden of Beasts Hitler is persecuting a lot of people. One of his associates in the beginning Rohm he had put under arrest. He was kicking people out of the hotel and disconnecting international telephones in and out. There was even a rumor of mass gunfire at yard on a cadet school meaning they killed a lot of innocent people that had nothing to do with anything. Most of the people in the hotel with Hitler during this fury didn’t even know what was going on or why he was doing it.
ReplyDeleteNobody was aware of the number, who got killed in this “purge“. Nazi leaders told there were less than 100 deaths, Neurath said something like “forty-three or forty-six”.
ReplyDeleteThis passage is important for the whole text, because it shows how the government worked. The only purpose was to eliminate all “enemies” of the country. For the Hitler regime, the number of deaths was not important, but the fact that the people are killed.
Hitler’s goal was to merge all the power in his person. With Hindenburg’s death, there was no president who could rule over him. “Contending with false humility that the title “president” could only be associated with Hindenburg, who had borne it so long, Hitler proclaimed that henceforth his own official title would be “Führer and Reich Chancellor”. This gives Hitler finally the 100% power over Germany.
This quote is important for the whole text, because since Hindenburg’s death, Hitler was able to combine the complete power in his person. Nobody could overrule him.
Part VII
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p. 335 second to last paragraph
the newspaper in Germany stated that Hitler was the part that holds Germany together even though some of his officers were “accidentally killed”
I just don’t understand how everyone saw Hitler as such a good person. Everyone one new about the Jews and Hitler’s killing but he was still praised.
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“Ah , yes, you journalists always like a special headline story; well, here it is. General von Schleicher had plotted against the regime. I ordered his arrest. He was foolish enough to resist. He is dead” (314).
This quote just stands out to me how the Germans will do anything now to get what they want. They just killed one of their main officers because he was in plot against the regime. He resisted arrest but even if he gave in he most likely still would have been killed.
Paraphrase: Martha had finally had enough. She was finally leaving Germany. This was both a statement for her personally and for the country of Germany. It stated that she didn’t have the love for Germany she once had, and it showed that Germany had went far from what it once was. She is leaving the country she once loved and could find no fault in. The killings finally got to her. She wrote that she had finally “had enough blood and terror to last me for the rest of my life.” If she is leaving I’m sure many others are ready to leave to.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “In Germany, Dodd had noticed, no one ever abused a dog, and as a consequence dogs were never fearful around men” This is significant because it shows that even dogs are treated better than humans in Germany. It shows how twisted Hitler’s priorities were. Hitler even killed his friend, but he wouldn’t let them kill dogs. Murder was now legal, but animal cruelty was illegal. Hitler doesn’t see what is obviously more important.
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ReplyDeleteA brutal purge took place that and no one knew how many lives were taken.After the purge, the Dodd family learnt about a new saying that was being said, translated in english it meant " are you still among the living?" (321)
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“Ah , yes, you journalists always like a special headline story; well, here it is. General von Schleicher had plotted against the regime. I ordered his arrest. He was foolish enough to resist. He is dead” (314).
this quote is significant because it shows that the germans are willing to do anything to get whatever they want.Even if it means killing one of their own men.
Part 7 is about a bunch of people were killed because of what they believed or the religion they practiced. General Schleider, his wife and his 7 year old daughter were killed as well. Hitler didn't really show any emotion about all of the murders that he committed and he didn't show any emotion about the murders of his so called friends either.
ReplyDelete"Apparently a lot of people are getting shot." This quote is important because this is when the Germans really saw the terrible things that Hitler was doing in Germany. But by this time it was to late to try and stop it because he had already begun the mass murder of innocent civilians.
Everything is becoming chaos and Hitler is starting to kill pretty much everyone, even those he considered a friend. People all over Berlin were becoming more nervous with the fact that people were being shot out in plain sight for no apparent reason and a terrible saying started going around that was “are you still among the living”, which basically meant that you having been shot on the spot yet. People felt suffocated and trapped with nowhere to go with the fear that they would be caught and shot. “Each new telephone call brought more news, much of its sounding too wild to be credible. Assassination squads were said to be roaming the country, hunting targets”. This just shows how extreme things have gotten and how many people are being killed because Hitler ordered. The whole country was under martial law and there was nothing anybody could do because Hitler would stop.
ReplyDeleteIn Part 7 of the book "In the Garden of Beast" is the big turning point and the indicator of what Germany has become. Discrimination took its level very far to the point of random murders from S.S. soldiers. Hitler has taken over with full power over the people and his all powerful Nazis to do with as he pleases. Which was to kill and put fear into the hearts of the World which is the beginning of World War II.
ReplyDeleteMankind is in grave danger, but democratic governments seem not to know what to do. If they do nothing, Western Civilization, religious, personal and economic freedom are in grave danger." This quote speaks for the whole section of the book by describing the turning point of the world from this conflict happening in Germany. It is also saying that nobody will know how to handle it.