Salutations everybody, this is becoming a very interesting book because it is now talking about all of the historical events that went on during this time period. Also, since this book is about the people during this time period, it is interesting to see how the people reacted during these events like the beginning of the annexation of Jews, and the Berlin Olympics. If you want to know a little about what this was or what I am talking about, her is a link you can follow: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680. This link is from the United States National Holocaust Museum and it describes the Olympics during tht time. In I Was There, the author describes the setting from the Nazi Germany time period when the Olmpics start to roll around. The scene is that people become more patriotic with flags all around and workers setting up tents and festivities for when the Olympics begin. This link shows the same but describes what this meant for Nazi Germany and how Hitler's regime progressed after this event.
This was big because Germany was in the middle of Hitler's regime and this was the first time the olympics were in Germany. The narrator of my book who is still unnamed at this point, talks about how gloriouse this event was to the society of Nazi Germany. He describes that in his school they were testing for kids who were suppose to enter into the Olympics. He describes the training for Gymnastics and the other main charcter Heinz is supposily the best Gymnast in the area. A telling event in the story was when a unpopular kid name Gutton saved his life when he fell of the bars during his gymnastic routine. Heinz went on to be in the olympics and represented Germany. Here is a link for the opening events of the Berlin Olympics. This video shows what the Olypics looked like and how the crowd reacted. As stated before this was a big event to Nazi Gemany because it gave them much pride as a country and much honor to host the olympics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyns367ExE T
So another thing that suprised me was the first conflict between the Hitler youth, which was the narrators boy group that followed Hitler's teachings, and a jewish boy. The scene described by the narrator was a group if kids kicking a Jewish boy while on the ground chanting "Stinking Jew" across the town. Then the narrator explains that people are just watching this, letting this happen. In school I learned that people naturally are bystanders and let violence happen and this is demonstrated in this book. As the boy was covering his face, shielding the kicks, no body was willing to help. When the narrator walked into the situation, he looked and said they shouldn't do that but then quietly walked a few feet back. Then a local citizen finally broke up the group and saved the little Jewish boy. Although this is very horrible, this is what happend all acros Gemany during the Hitler Regime. The one thing I don't like about this book is the length of the scenes. The scene with the Jewish boy seemed to be summerized and it left me wanting to more know about the situation. Hopefully the author goes into deeper detail of the events as we get to the more violent years of Nazi Germany.
So this is Dylan D getting off for at least a couple days and I will get back with details from the next section!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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