Passage:
I aimed from the first at something a thousand times higher than being a minister. I wanted to become the destroyer of Marxism. I am going to achieve this task and, if I do, the title of minister will be absurdity as far as I am concerned
Interpretation:
Hitler was looking for something different then what Germany was accustomed to or any nation for that matter. He was done with trying to live in a capitalist society, he was done with the bourgeoisie politicians. He wanted change and if people had to die for him to do so then that is what it was going to take. He wanted to be more then a leader but more of an emperor with complete utter control.
Reflection
I found Night and Fog to be very disturbing in comparison to the other films we viewed. It was obscured and unjustifiable for the treatment of the human beings on that concentration camp. The conditions that they went threw and for what? There was no cause or purpose to have so much hate for people just because they are different or do not share the same political views as you do. The main difference between the films is that these were actual people. These were actual lifeless bodies and real life situations. This is history. This is what Germany turned into because of the different political and economic views. It became even more corrupt and more disturbing. As time progress it seems as if the people in Germany got angrier. The earlier films showed ways people reacted to what is going on in Germany. Either through fantasy or having breakdowns. These later films showed the true dysfunction of Germany, and how it really begin to mess with the people mind, in thinking putting up this camp will help Germany become a better place.
Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteYou laid out the interpretation of his passage pretty well. I am going to agree with you on this also. Hitler wanted power, control but on a very different level. I think he felt if people feared him they would respect him. I agree also that he wanted something completely different for what Germany was accustom to.
I also had to comment on your reflection of the films because I also did feel the films were extremely brutal and unjustifiable. When I viewed those films I could not help but to imagine what those poor people felt. For me the most disturbing part of the film was when they were carrying out the bodies and the heads. That was so devastating.
It is so true that Hitler was trying to find alternative ways of ruling Germany from what it used to be. He accomplished goal by enforcing power and fear on the people of Germany to become the dominant ruler of his time even it meant taking the lives of innocent people.
ReplyDeleteIt is so true that Hitler was trying to find alternative ways of ruling Germany from what it used to be. He accomplished goal by enforcing power and fear on the people of Germany to become the dominant ruler of his time even it meant taking the lives of innocent people.
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