Death and Destruction in War by Laurel https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir 10.2 English - War representations anthology en-us 2022-08-17 06:22:44 UTC 2022-08-22 14:09:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Nazi Propaganda Poster laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2266865920 This is a propaganda poster from World War II, during the peak of Nazi Germany. "Der ist schuld am Kriege!" translates to "The war is his fault!", meaning that the Jews were the alleged cause of the war and that they should be killed.]]> 2022-08-22 02:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2266865920 "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" - John Boyne laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267095117 pages 211-212

"Shmuel may well have opened his mouth to say something back, but Bruno never heard it because at the moment there was a loud gasp from all the marchers who had filled the room, as the door at the front was suddenly closed and a loud metallic sound rang through from the outside.
Bruno raised an eyebrow, unable to understand the sense of all this, but he assumed that it had something to do with keeping the rain out and stopping people from catching colds.
And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go."

This text is speaking about the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Bruno was unaware of the reality of his environment as he was very young, so he walked with Shmuel and all the other Jews into a gas chamber to their death.]]> 2022-08-22 06:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267095117 The Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, Israel laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267338134 The image above is all the images and names of Jews who were killed in concentration camps across Europe during the Holocaust. This Hall of Names contains around 600 portraits of Jewish Holocaust victims.]]> 2022-08-22 12:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267338134 Before & After - Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima, Japan laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267388425 Above is a side-by-side birds-eye view image comparing Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing. As shown, the aftermath of the bomb was lethal, wiping out more than half of the city's population and destroying many buildings and industrial sites.]]> 2022-08-22 13:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267388425 Höss memoir excerpt laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267437248 “The Fuhrer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved once and for all and that we, the SS, are to implement that order. The existing extermination centers in the East are not in a position to carry out the large Aktionen which are anticipated. I have therefore earmarked Auschwitz for this purpose, both because of its good position as regards communications and because the area can easily be isolated and camouflaged. At first I thought of calling in a senior SS officer for this job, but I changed my mind in order to avoid difficulties concerning the terms of reference. I have now decided to entrust this task to you. It is difficult and onerous and calls for complete devotion notwithstanding the difficulties that may arise. You will learn further details from
Sturmbannführer Eichmann

The departments concerned will be notified by me in due course. You will treat this order as absolutely secret, even from your superiors. After your talk with Eichmann you will immediately forward to me the plans for the projected installations. “The Jews are the sworn enemies of the German people and must be eradicated. Every Jew that we can lay our hands on is to be destroyed now during the war, without exception. If we cannot now obliterate the biological basis of Jewry, the Jews will one day destroy the German people.” On receiving these grave instructions, I returned forthwith to Auschwitz, without reporting to my superior at Oranienburg.

Rudolf Höss was commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1943. Under his  leadership, the camp experimented with multiple methods of murdering inmates, mainly using poisonous gasses. Höss was captured, tried, and sentenced to death after the war. Above is an excerpt from his memoirs, which he wrote while in prison.

]]> 2022-08-22 14:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267437248 Excerpt: Nagasaki by Susan Southard laurelkashiri https://padlet.com/laurelkashiri/fd9b90z4mnz00lir/wish/2267445665 Taniguchi was sharply dressed in a gray suit, a white dress shirt, and a deep purple and navy striped tie. On his left lapel he wore a pin—a white origami crane set against a red background. His thick black hair was combed neatly to the side. Small—maybe five foot six—and noticeably thin, he told his story quietly, the syllables toppling one upon another: At 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, sixteen-year-old Taniguchi was on his bicycle delivering mail in the northwestern section of the city when a plutonium bomb fell from the sky and exploded over a Nagasaki neighborhood of about thirty thousand residents. “In the flash of the explosion,” he said, his voice trembling, “I was blown off the bicycle from behind and slapped down against the ground. The earth seemed to shiver like an earthquake.” Although he was over a mile away, the extraordinary heat of the bomb torched Taniguchi’s back. After a few moments, he lifted his head to see that the children who had been playing near him were dead.

As he spoke, Taniguchi held up a photograph of himself taken five months after the blast during his protracted stay at a hospital north of Nagasaki. In the photograph he is lying on his stomach, emaciated. Down one arm and from neck to buttocks where his back would be, there is no skin or flesh, only exposed muscle and tissue, raw and red. As Taniguchi finished his speech, he made eye contact with his audience for the first time. “Let there be no more Nagasakis,” he appealed. “I call on you to work together to build a world free of nuclear weapons.”

Above is an excerpt from the novel "Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War". The source speaks about a sixteen-year-old boy who was caught up in the Nagasaki bomb.
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