This historic time affected many different people like how the historic change in the book affected many people in Oceania. During this time in World War II the government rations on many things like their ration on food, in 1939 they started rationing clothes, people were only allowed to use warm water twice a week, they rationed soap and there was no toilet paper. The result of all this rationing was the black market. This is much like in the book 1984, although in the book they have rations on many more items. Such as chocolate, cigarettes, gin, food and many other things. 

Another thing that World War II and 1984 have in common is that they both burned literature that didn’t align with their thinking. During World War II the Nazis would go around different universities and would burn books in a huge bonfire. In 1984 they took it to the extreme. The government destroyed any real evidence that wrote about life before their time and completely rewrote it. The Ministry of Truth would go through all of the out-going news and burn the information they didn’t like and rewrite it; within a matter of seconds what was the truth would be gone.

Lastly they both tortured people to get the answers they wanted. During World War II the Nazis would perform science experiments on some of the people they captured. They were obsessed with perfection and would try and figure out how everyone could have the ideal features, blonde hair and blue eyes. But in 1984 they would torture people in the Ministry of Love so that they would confess their crimes. They would do unspeakable things until the person snapped and gave in to Big Brother’s totalitarian ways.

In conclusion this time period in history aligned very much with the book 1984. They both rationed many things, like food, soap, etc. They both destroyed literature that didn’t align with their thinking, and they both tortured people to get the answers they wanted.