Sunday, February 2, 2014
RR to "The Garden Of Beasts"
The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, makes me think about how unfair justice is in this world. I haven’t finished this book, but so far a lot of injustice has been performed. This book is set around World War 2 (WWⅡ), in Berlin, the capital of Germany. There was a lot of horrible acts committed by Nazis toward Jews in Germany during this time period. None of the Nazis where punished for these acts though.
I’m less than halfway through the book, so the Nazis haven’t decided to terminate all Jews in Germany yet, but they have decided to make it a priority to publicly embarrass all Jews. In one instance when a Nazi parade was happening, an innocent bystander was attacked by a group of Nazis because he looked Jewish (Larson 104). Also the police where two feet away from the incident, but ignored the man’s pleas for help, and instead smirked down at him. These two police didn’t care about the man. In fact they where so amused by him getting beaten up, that they failed to do their job, protect people from crime. The Nazis specifically targeted Edgar A. Mowrer, a reporter for the Chicago Daily News at the time. They wanted him out of the country so much “They followed his friends and made threats against his bureau staff.” (75). Mowrer eventually had to leave for his own safety, but it was against his own will. The only reason the Nazis were angry with him was he wrote the book, Germany Puts the Clock Back, which talked about how the Nazi regime was a horrible thing for Germany and its people. This book said the truth, and Nazis despised it for that. They were scared people would read it and actually listen to what the book said, turning everyone against them.
What they did to the Jews during that time was so unfair. The Nazis discriminated against the Jews just because they believed Jews were evil and bad for Germany. The only reason this stupid belief even happened was because Adolf Hitler needed someone to blame the depression Germany was going through on. Hitler led a Nazi regime of terror, distrust, and violence that no one tried to stop until the damage was done. Almost 6 million Jews where murdered by the Nazis (*not just in Germany).
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