The sources that we’ve read explain a lot of problems that help us better understand why the holocaust was started. Some of which such as Mein Kampf gives a brief explanation on why Hitler did what he did. Mein Kampf tells some of the reasons that why had such a hatred toward Jews and a brief description of what he hated about them. He tells us that they had a certain appearance to them in which he hated but to others they just like everyone else. Also, reading All Quite on the Western Front though it is not the same time period it was not too far apart from the two wars. I think that it gives us a realistic view of what happens during the war and the feeling that the soldiers might feel. This story allows us to look in the mind of a soldier in the middle of the gun fight and see the fear going through his head during all the chaos. I believe that fear played a major part in how ordinary people reacted to Hitler’s rise into power. Since Hitler put fear into anyone who would oppose him, it also forced the people under his power to mold themselves into what he thought was an acceptable German. This helped ordinary people to avoid being killed…show more content… Though his personal stories maybe graphic but they are realistic and shows the brutality of what happened to his country. Such as when he was telling us what happened to him during Kristallnacht, he told us about all the broken glass, smashed retail, and how there were feces all over the store in which he worked. Thus, showing how cruel the Nazis treated the Jews and their property. He tells us about his daily life when he was at school and how prejudice they were to the other Jewish kids. At recesses, they were separated from the other kids and even the principle of the school was sending his kids to French school because it wasn’t as bad. It just goes to show how it was and the problems that they had to solve going through the
