I found this chapter to be a bit scary because let's face it our world has gone through and has seen some major tragedies. So far in history we have had two major World Wars which had a drastic effect on the people of the world and the world itself.
This chapter just went to show people that people with power can both cause great destruction and positive attributes. For example Adolf Hitler was able to convince and control an entire country to do whatever he wanted them to do. He was able to take over their government and become their ultimate leader, leading them into doing many horrible deeds. His goal was to create a world were there was only the race that he thought was the "superior" race, which was the Arian race. Adolf Hitler would target anyone who was not of this race and put them into camps of kill them. Everyone has herd or learned about Adolf Hitler trying to eliminate the Jewish population because he had so much hatred for them, he would target them as his main target and try to get rid of every single one of them. He would make all of Jewish people wear the Star of David to distinguish them from everyone else, this was very degrading to the Jewish community. Yes there was two different points to view Hitler as, the ones that followed him and the ones that were against him. I personally am very against Adolf Hitler and his beliefs because I feel that there is no such thing as a superior race, and that who is he to decide who should live and who should die? Just to try and eliminate an entire race, let alone anything thing in my eyes is very unacceptable. But yes there were the ones who would agree with Hitler and follow him, some people even look to Hitler as an influence because he had so much power and was able to take control of an entire country. Hitler was a very powerful man but the way that he thought about things were just so negative, and to some people thought that the way that he did things was just so influential. I mean sure he was a great leader and very intelligent, but the way that he used those attributes was just towards such a negative way.
World War II was just such an important part of history to everyone, and even more to me because it was such a monumental point in history. I personally was affected greatly because I am of Japanese nationality, Live in Hawaii near Pearl Harbor, and I am american. This has affected me so much because I have been to the USS Arizona memorial and learned about this War so much in past classes, not just about the war itself, but also about the other affects of it. Many people were affected not just by the war and the death tolls, but also the after affects were tremendous, from the radiation from the nuclear bombs to the racism that Japanese Americans faced. I mean Americans even turned on their own kind, just because they were of Japanese decent, and America was supposed to be home of the free, where people of all different types of nationalities could be.
This chapter had a very deep feeling to it because there was so many people lost in the process of these two major destructions of history. I hope that there is never anything ever like this ever again because as humans we need to learn from these situations and not do the same stupid mistakes.
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