World War II was one of the deadliest wars in history, but no one remembers the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff which was deadlier than the sinking of the Titanic. When the enormous 684 feet ship launched, it killed 9,343 people of the !0,582 people that were packed into the ship. The book Salt to the Sea is based on all of the characters trying to get to this ship, hoping that it would bring them to safety. Little did they know what would actually happen. In 1945, the time the Wilhelm Gustloff sank, FDR was getting sworn in for his 4th term in office, Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland, and so much more happened in just the year 1945.
In 1945, the common point of veiw in Germany was that people who were not of the Aryan race, in other words, 100% christian, blonde hair, tall, with blue eyes. "it's all your fault, the voice whispered. I quickened my pace and caught up with a small group. The Germans would march us off the field road if they found us." (Sepetys, 2016) this quote signifies that they are trying to escape the Germans and that they blame themselves for being different. "Fear is a hunter" is a reocurring phrase throughout the book. To each charater it means something different, to one it might mean that fear kills, to another it might mean that fear has all of the power. Fear was something that motivated World War II. source: Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea. Philomel Books, 2016.
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