Read and annotate "Anger and Humiliation" with questions and comments. Make special note of the description of Adolf Hitler. Highlight any clues or statements on his personality, personal life, beliefs. In class on Tuesday we will be making an identity chart for him. Also, on pg. 124, carefully read the Nazi Party program. Choose two points of this program that you think are especially unfair. Why are they unfair? Which ones do you have questions about? Then, read "Voices in the Dark". Annotate with questions and comments. Then, answer this question: If you had been on the train, do you think you would have said or done anything? Have you or someone you know ever had a similar experience?

ANGER AND HUMILIATION

Choose two points of this program that you think are especially unfair. Why are they unfair? Which ones do you have questions about?

Unfair Laws:

4. 'German blood as a requirement for German citizenship. No Jew can be a member of the nation.'

This rule is completely unfair, how can someone just say because your a Jew you can no longer be a citizen of this country, but also we will take you in a torture you because of what your race did. They should be treated the same as any German is treated, they should be able to be a part of the nation if they choose to be.

5. 'Non-citizens can live in Germany only as foreigners, subject to the law of aliens.'

This law is not unlike the 4th rule in that they both deny the right of someone, not born and bred German, to become a citizen, they say that people of different blood will live as foreigners. What is this? Its nonsense, how can anyone judge someone on their race, because their different, because they believe something else? They denied anyone non-German the right to become a citizen because of their race. This rule is clearly very unfair in many different ways, some of which I have just stated.

Questions:

5. 'Non-citizens can live in Germany only as foreigners, subject to the law of aliens.'

What do they mean when they say 'law of aliens'?

3. Land and territory (colonies) for our surplus population.

What does that even mean?

7. The state insures that every citizen live decently and earn his livelihood. If it is impossible to provide food for the whole population, then aliens must be expelled.

When they say 'aliens must be expelled', what do they mean, do they mean foreigners must be kicked out of the country?

If you had been on the train, do you think you would have said or done anything? Have you or someone you know ever had a similar experience?

If I had been on the train and been listening to those men, then I, truthfully, would keep quiet and try to make sure they didn't hear or see me at all because they seemed pretty tough and strong and if it were me against them, then I think its obvious who would win and who would loose. So maybe in a fantasy we would all stand up to them but in reality, if we were really in his shoes, I think we would all pick to stay quiet.

By Georgina