Michael Hoover Berlin Memorial activity

Michael Hoover
Berlin Memorial Activity

One thing that I learned from the Jewish restrictions activity that we did in class today was that the restrictions that Hitler made were pretty extreme, people that had to follow these laws pretty much lost everything that they had or owned which was sad. There were restrictions like you had a curfew and you can't own pets which Is like family for some people, and you had to wear the Star of David like it was a tag to identify you. The most crazy thing that I learned was how the Jewish people were identified or caught, most times it was the neighbor that snitched to Hitlers secreat police which I found really sad because it showed how much influence and power that Hitler had. Overall I learned a lot from the activity because I did not know half of the stuff that was put onto the wall. When you read these books about the holocaust it really only talks about the really extreme stuff like tear gas and mass shootings.

The reason that I think the memorial in Berlin was made was to bring all of the souls of the people that had perished during the war and give them a proper burial and lay them to rest. In a lot of cultures when you do not properly bury a loved one then they will be condemned for life to stay at the place that they died at and it pretty much is like an eternal torture for the person. Another reason that the memorial may have been built was to remember what happened in history with all of the death and chaos and use it as a lesson for It to not relapse itself in the future and happen again.

Something that I noticed about the amount of laws passed in the years when Hitler was in power was when he got his power he made a lot of resrictions and kind of in a way settled down after the first and only made a couple of laws a year. He would in certain years make a whole bunch of laws but there was never a patter or a constant rate he kind of just did it when he wanted to. Something else that I noticed was that he kind of started off easy with bans and as the years went on the laws became more demeaniring like when he was making the Jews go to the concentration camps and killing them for know reason.

The restrictions that I think I would have the hardest time coping with would be having to wear an armband showing who I was. I would have the most trouble with this because when I would leave for school or activities I would probaly forget to grab it and if that happened I would probaly get beat on the street or wherever I was going that day. The second ban that I think I would have a hard time dealing with would be getting rid of my pet because in the first place I would not hand my tiny dog Chewbacca to those evil people because it's not right and I do not think it would hurt anything to keep him. The way that the Nazis made these bans to break down the Jewish people was malevolent and cruel and was not needed at all in my opinion because they did not do anything wrong in the first place.