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Is John Boyne sensitive about the subject of the Holocaust in 'The The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'?
Yes definitly. The camp is never called by it's name (Auschwitz), only Out-With. Bruno always describes them as wearing pyjamas. The ending is tragic and is handled very well, without stating the facts, but making an educated reader aware of what is happening.
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No, the author is crass. He seems to have done almost no research and much of the content is highly implausible and this has the effect of trivializing the Holocaust.
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How did teachers handle the topic of the holocaust after the end of the war?
The Holocaust was not widely taught in schools till after 1980 and it was certainly not taught in the immediate postwar period. From the end of World War 2 till the late 1960s the Holocaust was something of a non-subject apart from media reports on Holocaust trials.
What are good questions to ask a Holocaust survivor?
ask them their point of view on the subject if they are comfortable talking about it ___ Be very tactful and inform yourself thoroughly about the Holocaust before meeting a survivor.
What do Holocaust deniers get for denying the Holocaust?
#1 They get some kick or other out of it. I don't think they are paid for denying the Holocaust._____# 2 There is not really a punishment for denying the Holocaust.______Regarding #2 There are officially 14 countries that have enacted thought crime legislation to specifically protect the holocaust from revisionist.It is important to note that the holocaust is the only subject in the history of the west that is not subject to debate or revision. Denier speculate that this is because the history could not stand up to standardized historical review. My oppinion is my own, but i encourage you to look into the claims and contentions of the holocaust narrative.Some people just want to deny the fact that humanity is capable of such atrocities, and simply want to forget about the nightmarish past. Other, more aggressive, deniers see Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other Holocaust victims as sub-human, and that they will go to heaven if they rid the world of them.Another Answer:From what I have read and the revisionsts I met, they truly believe their arguments are logical and accurate and in some claims they are very convincing.Another Answer:There are numerous political reasons why Holocaust Deniers deny the Holocaust, namely to undermine the nature of the State of Israel or the Rights that Jews and other minorities have gained since the Holocaust. Israel is seen by many as being an international reaction to the Holocaust. If the Holocaust was in some way invalidated, this would, in their minds, invalidate the State of Israel. Similarly if minorities were not as violently oppressed and exterminated as they were in the Holocaust, there would be no need to protect them as strongly as they have been protected in Europe.It is important to note that although the Holocaust swayed international opinion as regards Zionist aspirations, the basis for the State of Israel comes out of writings by Herzl, Jabotinsky, and Ahad Ha-Am from before the Holocaust and the connection between the Holocaust and the on-the-ground creation of the State of Israel is tenuous if at all present.
Should the Holocaust be taught about in schools?
I do not see a problem, provided the horror is not stressed unduly.
Is the Final Solution the same thing as the Holocaust?
1. They were the same thing. The word the Holocaust only came into general use around 1980. The Final Solution was the Nazis' own term and was short for Final Solution of the Jewish Question (Endloesung der Judenfrage).___2. The Holocaust also refers to the other programs run to incriminate minorities. Action T4, for example, was an order to exterminate those with disabilities. The Marxists and homosexuals were similarly killed, just not under the title of Final Solution.____Definition 2 is at odds with that used by most professional historians of the Holocaust. See, for example, the definition of the Holocaust provided by Rciahrd J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge:'The standard work by the distinguished Canadian historian Michael Marrus, TheHolocaust in History, focused on, to use his own words, 'the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis'. Similarly, Sir Martin Gilbert, in his documentary compilation, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy( London, 1986), concurred in referring to 'the systematic attempt to destroy all European Jewry - an attempt now known as the Holocaust'. Another author, Ronnie S. Landau, put forward a similar definition in his book, The Nazi Holocaust: 'The Holocaust involved the deliberate, systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1941 and 1945.'Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, Verso, London and New York, 2002, pp. 113-4In the US the term the Holocaust is used loosely, possibly in an attempt to justify Federal funds for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.What Hitler called the 'Final Solution' was (later called) the Holocaust. It involved imprisoning millions of Jewish people, separating the families, experimenting on them surgically with no anaesthetic, and so on. Certain groups of German soldiers were allowed to kill Jews anytime that they saw them, (and they killed a huge number, as well).
