Read this passage:Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again. Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know that they, too, would remember, and bear witness.Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference," 1999Why does Wiesel begin "The Perils of Indifference" by thanking the U.S. soldiers who freed him from the concentration camp as a child?A.To appeal to the audience who were mostly from the United StatesB.To tell the U.S. audience that the United States should no longer be proud of its actionsC.To inform the international audience that U.S. soldiers helped himD.To reprimand the soldiers of other countries who did nothing to help

Read this passage:And our only miserable consolation was that we believed that Auschwitz and Treblinka were closely guarded secrets; that the leaders of the free world did not know what was going on behind those black gates and barbed wire; that they had no knowledge of the war against the Jews that Hitler's armies and their accomplices waged as part of the war against the Allies.If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene. They would have spoken out with great outrage and conviction. They would have bombed the railways leading to Birkenau, just the railways, just once.Elie Wiesel, "The Perils of Indifference," 1999What type of appeal is Wiesel making by using the underlined words in the passage?A.LogosB.PathosC.EthosD.Rhetorical question

Read this passage:I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.I remember he asked his father: "Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?" And now the boy is turning to me. "Tell me," he asks, "what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?"Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1986Why does Wiesel talk about himself in the third person?A.To answer a question that many people have asked him aboutB.To focus the audience on the terrible experiences he had as a childC.To ask the audience members to consider what they would do in his situationD.To give the audience facts and evidence that support his argument

Why does Elie Wiesel most likely choose to begin "The Perils of Indifference" in the following way?Fifty–four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald. He was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart. He thought there never would be again. Liberated a day earlier by American soldiers, he remembers their rage at what they saw. And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion. Though he did not understand their language, their eyes told him what he needed to know that they, too, would remember, and bear witness.A.He is providing an example of human indifference.B.He is trying to convince the audience that American soldiers were indifferent to the suffering of thoseC.He is trying to help the audience make a connection between his experiences and his ideas.D.He is giving the audience background information on the Holocaust.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Source: Toller, Ernest. I Was a German: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary. 1933Context: Ernst Toller was a German who joined the Germany army after the war broke out. He served for just over a year, but was discharged from the army after suffering from a physical and mental breakdown. After he left the army, Toller turned to writing poetry, plays, and books. He saw his duty as a poet to bring people closer to his vision of peace and justice."I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled; words became [meaningless]. The war had become an everyday affair; life on the front became a matter of routine; instead of heroes there were only victims; conscripts* instead of volunteers, life had become hell, death a bagatelle*; we were all of us pieces in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward – nobody knew to where – sometimes backwards - nobody knew why. We had lost our enthusiasm, our courage, the very sense of our identity; there was no rhyme or reason in all this slaughtering and devastation; pain itself had lost its meaning; the earth was a barren* waste."By the end of the war, what was Toller's view of the war? Use text evidence.

SOURCE A E. Buller, Darkness over Germany, Longmans Green, 1941, p.108. For five years I remained unemployed and was broken in body and spirit and I learned how stupid were all my dreams in those hard days at university. I was not wanted by Germany, and certainly, if I was not wanted here, I was not wanted anywhere in the world… Just then I was introduced to Hitler. You won’t understand and I cannot explain either because I don’t know what happened, but life for me took on a tremendous new significance. After all Germany would rise again, after all I was wanted… I can only tell you that I cannot go back… Believe me I cannot face uncertainty and conflict again. No for me it is Hitler and the resurrection of Germany… I have chosen Hitler, leave me in peace with my choice. SOURCE B G. Greenwood, The Modern World, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1964, p. 516. Many Germans turned to the Nazis and selected from their policies what appealed to them. The Nazi movement was accepted by many because it seemed to provide the answer to personal and national frustration. The emotionalism and indeed irrationalism of the movement had strong appeal to those who were disillusioned by the decay of German society… the only solution was to be found in a strong leader… Appeal in particular was strong to the classes that saw their privileges threatened, ex-servicemen who had not been integrated into civilian life, to the young who saw little opportunity before them, and to the middle-class whose emotions Hitler could exploit with the skill of a master agitator. SOURCE C Ian Kershaw, ‘The Hitler Myth’ in History Today, November 1985. For the thirteen million Germans who voted Nazi in 1932, Hitler symbolised the various facets of Nazism which they found appealing. In his public portrayal, he was a man of the people, his humble origins emphasising the rejection of privilege and the sterile old order in favour of a new, vigorous, upwardly-mobile society built upon strength, merit and achievement. He was seen as strong, uncompromising, ruthless. He embodied the triumph of true Germanic values - courage, manliness, integrity, loyalty, devotion to the cause over decadence, corruption and effeminate weakness of Weimar society. Source Questions Study SOURCE A. Why did Hitler and the Nazis appeal to the author? The author conveniently shared the same feelings and motives between Hitler along with his sense of marginalism and humbleness he had faced Study SOURCE B. Identify any three reasons why the Nazi movement was accepted by many Germans. Study SOURCE C. What reasons does Kershaw provide for the appeal of Hitler