Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Denial

Time and again, the people of Sighet doubt the advance of the German army. Why? When the Germans do arrive, and even once they have moved all the Jews into ghettos, the Jewish townspeople still seem to ignore or suppress their fear. “Most people thought that we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before” (p. 12). What might be the reasons for the townspeople’s widespread denial of the evidence facing them?

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  1. The reasons for the townspeople's widespread denail is because they probally dont believe that the Germans will let them free which we already know they didnt. Maybe at the end of the holocaust the Germans new that they were losing the war so they tryed to kill more Jews to let there anger go and their army probally was very weak and they new it and people were probally protesting that the German army was losing the war

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  4. I don't fully agree with Rayla.
    The reasons for the townspeoples to be in denial is because the German army came in and were very kind and nice to them. They thought that the German army would never be capleable to do such a thing as putting the jews in to concentration camps. They thought the war would be over sooner than later but later on in the book find out what the Germans were really capleable of. A lot of Jews were mislead by the way the Germans act and the moves they made.

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    1. this is true, but another reason is moishe isnt the most reliable ssource

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