"Anger and Humiliation" & "Voices in the Dark"

Read and annotate "Anger and Humiliateion" with questions and comments. Make specal 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 of him. Also, on pg.124, carefully read the Nazi Party program. Choose two points of this program that you think are epecially unfair. Why are they unfair? Which one do you have questons about?
Then, read "Voices in the Dark". Annotate with questions an 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?

The two points of the Nazi Party program that I think is the most unfair are #5 & 8. #5 states that, "Non-citizens can live in Germany only as foreigners, subject to the law of aliens." I think this is not right because although I understand that they do not want non-Germans as citizens of their country, the foreigners should still be treated equally. They might not get all the benefits of a citizen such as voting, but I believe that they should be respected of their place. They might not originaly be from Germany, but they are people who came to live there, and they should be treated the same; not like an object the government just decides to toy with and throw away. Point 8 says that, "No further immigration of non-Germans. Any non-German who entered Germany after August 2nd, 1914, shall leave immediately. " I do not have so much problem with the first part of the statement, but the second part bothers me. This Nazi Party program was created in February 1920, and that means that the people who are subject to this point are either; have gotten accustomed to Germany, is getting settled in, or ones who just arrived. These foreigners might still be in the process of "fitting in" and for the party to tell them to just leave them is absurd. These people might have thrown away everything to move to Germany, and they might not even have anywhere to go.

If I were positioned as the Jew in the train, I'm not sure if I would have fully stood up to them. I would probably say that I disagree in a quite voice without stating the fact that I was Jewish. It might seem cowardly but honestly I don't think I would have the courage to stand up to seven or eight other people, who especially are pointing their anger directly at my kind of people. I have been in these kinds of situations a few times, but of course not as intense. I don't recall the details but I do remember that I mumbled my disagreements about what they were saying. I do remember feeling extremely awkward wondering, 'How can they just assume that I agree with them?'