Stern describes Haber as a Jew-turned-Protestant, as a scientist (inventor of poison gas used in WWI) and a loyal patriot (very much the opposite of Einstein). He believed science had "a special mission" to help the nation (54) and he was "untroubled" (63) by the results of his poison gas development. Haber clearly was willing to advance the cause of "the fatherland" rather than pursue science help humanity, yet in the tragic end of his life, he was driven from his field of science by the very fatherland of Hitler that had originally supported.

The novelist: In Hegi's novel, characters fictional of course but they ref

And when (in the novel) churches become places where the fascist government has influence, and churchgoers are subjected to politics and the spiritual side of life has been corrupted, and you are a person like Trudi who has a serious disability anyway, life can be very cruel. The novel shows that cruelty and fright from a girl's perspective, and it is a very poignant and believable way to look at German society during those bloody times.

QUESTION C: EXPLAIN HOW HEGI'S NOVEL...MIRRORED OR SUPPLEMENTED THE FACTS PRESENTED IN ORLOW. Hegi's novel provided a very human and in-depth portrait to come to life of how people lived and suffered through Nazi Germany's bloody period of repression and mass slaughter. The characters in Stones From the River can help shape an understanding of the human discomfort that happens when a brutal dictator takes over a country. Stern's book, and Orlow's book, give the facts in a very thorough and professional way. But the novel takes a reader into the psychological, emotional, and physical terror that happens when suddenly your school is full of mean bullies in brown uniforms insisting you say Heil Hitler.

QUESTION B: RESPONSE TO HITLER'S WAR: RESISTANCE AND DIPLOMACY. The resistance to Hitler (within Germany) that Stern writes about is covered in the first essay question in this paper. In Orlow's book, only a few church leaders "advocated open resistance to the Nazis," and Hitler wanted to "eliminate organized Christianity in German society," but he didn't push that part of his agenda too hard. YALTA: The "big three" (Soviets, U.S. Britain) met in February 1945 at Yalta and agreed on how Berlin would be divided up, and also agreed that the Soviets would get $10 billion in German reparations, and the West (U.S & UK) would divide up $10 billion. At Potsdam, the "Big Three" argued over reparations, and in the end "allowed zonal commanders to set their own reparation policies"; in other words, the Soviets could take whatever they wanted from their zones, and the U.S. and UK could take from their zones of influence in Germany.

But brave and courageous speeches and written statements would mean nothing in the end, as (189) "...nearly a third of the clergy was censured or arrested."

lect the true social conditions in Germany pre-war and during the WWII. Unlike the factual narrative of the Stern book, characters in Hegi's novel are presented in the descriptive context of their emotions, of their interactions with other characters, and within the framework of the theme and tone of the plot. Trudi is descri

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