Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part VII and explain to your reader why the passage is significant to the text as a whole—why it is significant to Larson’s research question.
2) Find a significant quote from Part VII, and in a single, well-developed paragraph, FRAME THE QUOTE (“quotation sandwich”), and explain to your reader why the quote is significant to the text as a whole.
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Paraphrase- on (page 350) top of the page Erick Larson tells us that " Dodd embarked on a campaign to raise the alarm." He later went to New York on February 26, 1938, before a jewish congregation, saying look if Hitler took over Austria, Germany would seek to take over countries around it like, Romania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Now Dodd is going before the united states and saying Hitler will be free to pursue his ambitions without any other European country as they would choose "concessions over war." even though Dodd hasn't been the best ambassador he still warned everybody a year before hitler actually invaded Poland.
ReplyDeleteQuote- ( Jay Pierrepont Moffat) " I personally felt quite strongly that, much as i disliked and disapproved of mr. Dodd, he should not be apologized for." This is the ignorance from the americans When an ambassador from a different country comes to a convictions saying mankind is in danger... And i can just feel the emotion and stress and horridness from Dodd. saying western civilization is in trouble, if i was a government official i would have act instead they get mad and think it was uncalled for. That Dodd said all of that. (Page 349)
Roger Tinsley
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ENGL 1003
20 November 2015
Paraphrase pg. 314 beginning of a new paragraph it states "No one knew exactly how many people had lost their lives in the purge. Offical Nazi tallies put the total at under one hundred." Later in Dodd's letter he says that "the victims were in no sense guilty of treason." later on that page it says that the "death of General Schleicher and his wife was confirmed and General Schleicher had been shot seven times and the bodies had been discovered by their 16 year old daughter." Hitler was killing the Chancellors to keep himself in power and thats why nobody stop it because he would kill them before then.
Quote: "Despite these killing, the army continued to stand aside, its loathing for the SA trumping its distaste for the murder of two of its own." this quote is why Hitler was never stop because he turned on his own people and killed whoever he saw as a threat to his power. The question to this whole book is answered with this quote.
Megan Pliauplis
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Freshman Composition
20 November 2015
Paraphrase and Quote
Paraphrase
A significant passage in this text is the very last paragraph on page 321. This paragraph talks about when people passed each other on the streets, they would greet each other by asking "Lebst du noch?" which means, "Are you still among the living?" This is significant because it shows how many people have been killed so far and who is planning on being killed. It has become so normal in Germany that it becomes normal conversation between civilians. The fact that being killed comes up in small talk shows how the people of the town are starting to realize what Germany has become.
Quote
"Schleicher was having lunch with his family when two Gestapo cars pulled up outside his home and six men came to his door. He was taken away and shot in a cell in the basement prison at Gestapo headquarters. Hitler was the godfather of his twins." This quote is somewhat mind blowing for multiple reasons. The men simply removed Schleicher from his family to be shot and killed. It seemed quick and simple. Also, it is disturbing considering Hitler was the godfather of Schleicher's twins. This shows how heartless Hitler truly seemed to be.
Dustin Parsons
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Freshman comp
11/20/15
Paraphrase: The First new paragraph on the page break on page 329 is an important part in my opinion. It talks about Dodd and what he is realizing about what is going on and how people he had over to his house for tea and dinner are now being shot down. The passage also says that nothing had prepared Dodd for this, This really showing the severity of the situation and how crazy it really was. Later on in the Passages, at the end of the page, Dodd says that he "vowed never to host Hitler, Goring, or Goebbels at the embassy or his home" He also said he "would never again attend an address of the Chancellor or seek an interview for myself except upon official grounds." This tells us that Dodd is realizing who is starting all of the murdering and he is not wanting to associate himself with them.
Quote: On page 329, there is a sentence that says, "Nothing in Dodd's past had prepared him for this." This quote to me shows us that the killing and executions were more than we today can fathom. Dodd was a scholar and Jeffersonian democrat, a farmer who loved old German history, and still he wasn't prepared for something on this level. It goes to show how tragic it really was.
Nate Holladay
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English 1003
20 November 2015
In the Garden of Beasts- Part Seven
Paraphrase: “The city had changed. They realized it in phases as they got closer and closer to the Tiergarten” (309). This excerpt from chapter forty eight is indicative of the political disarray in Germany in the early thirties. Hitler has just begun his campaign of killing people who have opposing political or religious views, or even are of a different race. This is the beginning of Hitler’s rise to the leader of a major Axis power.
Quote: “Shoot them! … Take a whole company…. Shoot them…. Shoot them at once!” (307) Göring, one of Hitler’s officials is carrying out Hitler’s orders to murder people of opposing views.
Andrew Griffin
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Freshman comp.
11/20/15
Paraphrase:
Something that most people don’t know is that there is a name for this purge, it is called the night of the long knives, or Nacht der Logen Messer. It was a purge of the left wing side of the Nazi Party that led to the death of over 100 people, in less than 72 hours. However some men escaped as seen in Putzi’s escape.
Quote:
“No one actually knew how many had lost their lives to the purge.”
This quote explains the whole chapter because it explains that now the German people are now beginning to see that maybe Hitler is a nut job. He ordered the massacring of the Jewish people, ordered over 100 people from his own party, and he was about to invade the Rhineland. Finally Martha realizes that Nazi’s are a little crazier that the average Joe.
Dumar Camacho
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Freshman Composition
20 November, 2015
Paraphrase: A significant passage in part four would be the second paragraph on page 314. It starts off by saying that no one had a clue to how many had died during the purge. The Nazi soldiers said that not that many had been killed but the America’s consulates in Germany would give a number that was way higher than the one the Nazi soldiers had suggested. Dodd wrote that “Most of the victims were in no sense guilty of treason; merely political or religious opposition.” This show how these people were all innocent but yet were executed.
Quote: “Reports continued to arrive at the Dodd’s residence of new arrests and murders. By Sunday night Dodd knew with reasonable certainty that Captain Rohm was dead.” These reports of murder kept coming to their house without a stop. They were at doubt if Captain Rohm was really dead, but after receiving all of these, he knew for a fact that he was now.
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ReplyDeleteParaphrase and Significant Quote: A significant passage in part VII is on page 329. "He vowed never to host Hitler, Goring, or Goebbels at the embassy or his home and resolved further "that I would never again attend an address of the Chancellor or seek an interview for myself except upon official grounds. I have a sense of horror when I look at the man." This is a significant passage and quote because it shows how fearful people are of these men. They have so much power and as long as they are in power there will always be people that are possibly in danger. There is so much horror out there in the world that he needs a break from all of it.
ReplyDeleteDina Fajardo
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ENGL 1003
22 November 2015
Paraphrase: p.314
During the purge many were killed, but no one had an exact number of how many. Nazi officials said there were less than a hundred who died, others said there were more, and the number continued to build up to more than a thousand. They all died because of their political and religious opinions, which obviously was not the same as Hitler and the Nazis. Later, it was confirmed that some generals were also killed. They are now murdering their own, showing that no one is really safe.
Quote:
"The deaths of the Schleichers were just two of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of official murders committed so far that day, and the killing continued." Many important people are getting killed, and they are realizing how serious and dangerous Germany is getting. They did not think much about the other few murders that were going on before, but now that there are many, people are starting to get scared. The Dodd family are getting confused and shocked as they hear about these events occurring.