Now a days, hate crimes are more common than they used to be, or at least are about more than just race. The real question is if World War two made hate crimes worse. Before the war. hate crimes were common against LGBTQ people and people of different ethnicity and races, but World War two opened a whole other wound for hate crimes. The Nazi party was mainly focused on getting rid of people where were Jewish or from Jewish decent in their close family. If your grandfather was Jewish and you were not, that means that you are from Jewish decent. Before World War II, hate crimes against people of Jewish decent or Jewish people were much less frequent than they are now and especially during the war.
In the Book, salt to the sea, the main characters didn't want to expose their true identities because they didn't want to be seen for who they were or what they practiced or where they came from. I think this reflects a similar mentality now where some people are afraid to be seen for who they are. In Salt to the Sea, there is a Latvian, Lithuanian, a Prussian, A polish girl, and a delusional young Nazi who believes in Hitler's propaganda. The whole point of the book is for all of them to try to get to the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that could bring them to freedom. They all start off in different places and by the end of the book, they all meet each other.
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Brandon Finch
4/26/2018 11:51:58 am
Wow, that sounds like a very intriguing book, really good connection to current day problems.
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Miyako Briggs
4/26/2018 05:16:29 pm
I think that you have a good connection to current day events/problems. Are hate crimes today more similar or different to those experienced during WWII?
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