Holocaust Book Reflections

        Learning about the life of my main character teaches me to always live everyday to the fullest  because you never know what will happen the next day. In “Unlikely Warrior” our main character Georg Rauch was a German citizen that was at risk to either being selected to represent the Nazi’s or be put into a concentration camp, since he was a quarter Jewish. But, luckily he was selected to represent Germany (Nazi), which was an “honor”. Yet, he was a very young man, but was fighting for a country and so etching in which he didn’t believe or agree with. From the first day, Georg Rauch said it was already “pretty warlike”. Georg Rauch during his experience in war went through many things someone wouldn’t go though at that age, such as combat and fear, “Then more of those sounds, whispered scarps of Russian words, but behind me!” “They’re in back of us.” “They’re already over the trench. They’ve must have killed the other man, and that’s why I didn’t meet him. At this moment I discovered what fear is.” I want to live my life but by bit. I want to do many things and have something in the future. I want to meet my goals, but I can’t get ahead of myself. Many people during WWII wanted to be/have something or someone in the future, but couldn’t because if the war which made some people lose everything they had.


        Choices people made during the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust makes us think about what is right to do or what is maybe not the best choice. Hitler and the Holocaust was rising to power, and many people in Germany were happy about this new leader going to many Germany great again. But, for some specific groups it wasn’t all happiness. Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses. They all were groups that the Nazi’s were against. They had to make decisions in order to survive. In WWII, some people targeted were able to survive by fleeing countries that were being invaded by Germany. Others were able to hide themselves in attics, such as in the book, “Unlikely Warrior”. The mother of a Nazi solider who was a quarter Jewish, was hiding Jews in her attic. Today, everyone make decisions. But, sometimes we don’t all don’t make right decisions. People during harsh times make us think and make us learn. They makes us know what’s right and what’s wrong. Or what’s possible in order to accomplish what you want. Such as for people in WWII who were targeted was to survive.