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Though Alfons had been a Nazi, deprived of the information of what had happened at the Concentration camps, it shocks me that he would deny something like this. Located on page #179, it tells of the moment that Alfons, one of the book’s authors, sees pictures of the camps for the first time. Seeing this shocks him, and he decides to deny what he is seeing, believing it isn’t true. Whether he was told of these camps and the lives taken there or not, I am truly shocked that he would have the audacity to deny something like this.

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In my opinion, I chose this quote because of the controversy emotions it induced. In the excerpt, on page #137, it tell of Alfons having seen his family’s barn, his HOME, burning to the ground due to an air attack against Germany. With both Jewish and Nazi perspectives embedded in this story, you get emotionally attached to both characters and their story. Leading to the controversial feelings brough5 on by this moment. Should I feel bad for him? The air attack was from the good guys in the war, but that was his home! Who to trust in this situation is highly confusing.

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The fact the one of the authors herself had the chance to meet living relatives of the present day famous Anne Frank is astounding! I would have never excepted a moment like this to occur in this book, so this was genuinely surprising. On page #124, Helen recalls having first seen Mrs. Frank (Anne’s Mother), specifically, at the concentration camp. She tells the readers of the example of the Jews desperation at the time, having seen her trading shoes for what little soup the other woman could provide for her and her children. This moment is tragic, yes, but it also adds a level of interest to Helen’s side of the story, which is what grabbed my attention about this Book Snap.

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This quote from one of the authors provides the book’s reader with an astonishing first hand account on the first few steps a Jew would have taken when arriving at a Concentration camp. On page #121, Helen describes how bright the sun was once she removed herself from the box car, and how weak all these prisoners were. She tells us how the Nazi’s had used any excuse to punish the innocent Jews as they rode the box cars to their destination, not denying how many people where killed while traveling. Seeing this event through her perspective provides me as the reader with a more powerful and emotionally grasping while hearing about the event, getting to understand how someone there had actually felt.

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Once again relating back to the previous Book Snap, this excerpt from the book further provides its viewer with yet another example of the Nazi’s cruel, desperate and uncaring nature. On page #89, one of the few authors describes to us from a first hand account how the Nazi soldiers had pushed unimaginably harsh punishments on to their extremely young Hitler Youth soldiers, one of which, in most cases being death.

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This next quote, located on page #87, grabbed my curiosity due to the shock it induced while being read. These particular examples of the lengths Nazi’s would go to in order to keep their chances of winning World War II high are truly horrid. Forcing women to work straining amounts of hours just to make up for the hours that the men could not make. The only reasons the men were missing these hours was due to the Nazi’s in the first place. The Nazi’s were forcing more men, both younger and older, to join the war due to their chances of victory having began to dwindle, leaving no one to fend for the families except for the women, who were not familiar with this kind of work. These desperate lengths truly shook me while reading.

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Book Snap 4 , on page #80, goes hand in hand with Book Snap 3, further explaining its effects on the story. This quote attracts my interest mainly for the unexpected conclusion of a small plot point, telling how the Nazi’s had even more in plan then stated previously for their Jewish councils. The Nazi’s were planning to not only enforce their laws through and onto the Jews, but had also known that this would turn them against one another. This would make it easier to separate and control them during the Holocaust’s events.

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Quote 3, located on page #79, is in my opinion, greatly interesting. It provides the reader with an insight back into a strategy the Nazis used to force their Jewish prisoners into submission. The Nazis deemed that Jewish communities with a certain amount of people are required to obtain a Jewish council, or a Judenrat. These communities being created in order to assist in enforcing the Nazi’s laws on the Jews. This tactic turned out to be very clever and very effective, which is what surprised me most about this exerpt.

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This quote from the story, having taken place on page #86, more shocked and frightened me rather than intrigue. In this quote, “Parallel Journeys”  provides its reader with a cruel example of the Nazis punishments towards those who slipped up. When two Hitler youth soldiers are found lounging around in an area they were specifically told not to enter, they are brutally punished by being chased throughout a field with a motor bike at their heals. This moment in the story truly frightened me, leaving me to ponder what may have happened if they had done something worse.

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The quote on this page genuinely surprised me. The text I’ve taken from this page (#21) had provided me with the information that not all Germans (non Jewish) had in fact enjoyed nor cared for Hitler during the Holocaust, some had actually hated him. For example, when Alfons’s father screams at him due to his son having become a Hitler youth soldier. In my opinion, this was very surprising. I had assumed that al, other Germans had been ok with Hitler’s rule, though I seem to have been mistaken.