Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part V and explain to your reader why the passage is significant to the text as a whole—why it is significant to Larson’s research question.
2) Find a significant quote from Part V, and in a single, well-developed paragraph, FRAME THE QUOTE (“quotation sandwich”), and explain to your reader why the quote is significant to the text as a whole.
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Paraphrase:
ReplyDelete• At the end of the fifth section Dodd takes a break from work, but as he’s gone he can’t stop thinking about the fact that everyone is trying to get him out of office. He fears the people in the State Department are coming on more aggressively since he is gone. There was even an article in Forbes basically saying how cheap and how he was not important. He got back and there was a strong sense of tension. This is important because it foreshadows a climax in the near future, with tensions in the broken nation of Germany escalating.
Quote:
• “He reached Berlin on Thursday, May 17, at 10:30 p.m. and found a changed city. During his two months away, drought had browned the landscape to a degree he had never seen before, but there was something else. ‘I was delighted to be home,’ he wrote, ‘but the tense atmosphere was revealed at once’” (259).
o This quote is important because it explains how when Dodd returns everything has changed. It also foreshadows that in the near future something bad is going to happen because of the horrifying mood. It also shows how quickly things have escalated in Germany now.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteGermany is becoming an "emerging culture of surveillance" (224). They are starting to record people's conversations. They plant little microphones into the telephones so the Nazis can monitor conversations. The Dodds often feel uneasy about coming home from trips because they worry that the Germans have planted recording devices throughout their own home. Recording the conversations between different people is just another way to control the people in Berlin.
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One reason why the people in Berlin didn't try to stop Hitler and his regime was because they were scared. "Here was an entire nation...infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations" (223). If the people in Berlin acted unusual, the Nazi regime would kill them. The innocent citizens had to think about every move they made so the regime wouldn't harm them. The Nazis made all the people around them fearful so they could start their takeover of the world.
QUOTE:
ReplyDelete"Here was an entire nation... infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted in blighted all human relations" (223).
This quote really shows what the people of Germany felt during Hitler's reign. Even people who were loyal to and supported the government felt like they couldn't speak their minds. Germans, especially Jews, we're living under such tyranny that every little thing could cause them to be persecuted. They were in constant fear, something that nobody should have to live with.
PARAPHRASE:
From pages 217-220
Boris became Martha's main lover, they were practically exclusive. At the beginning of January, Boris invited Martha to a date and asked that she wear his favorite dress of hers. He took her to Horcher's restaurant on Lutherstrasse, a very nice restaurant which happened to be on of Herman Göring's favorite places. After dinner, he took her for the first time to his private quarters at the Soviet embassy. Inside, Martha saw that he had a shrine set up to Vladimir Lenin, the person he most adored. On the other side of the room was a shrine devoted to Martha, with pictures he had taken of her and keepsakes from throughout their relationship. Then Boris's daughter entered. She was a blonde girl, Martha guessed her to be about nine. She spoke Russian and Boris translated for Martha. The girl seemed reluctant to meet Martha, but was polite. She told Boris that Martha was very pretty, but too skinny. Once she went to bed, Martha and Boris laid in his bed together where they talked about Russia, his dreams for the future, and him and Martha's relationship. Martha says that she felt comforted, but also that it was one of the strangest evenings of her life.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteIn the fifth part of “In the Garden of Beasts” the Dodd’s knew that the atmosphere of Germany changed. Later while on their way home from tea they noticed something strange was happening at the army headquarters. There were soldiers and heavily armed patrols and trucks everywhere, the change was obvious. By the end of the week, they were gone, the city was quiet.
Quote:
“The mood was “tense and electric,” Martha wrote. “Everyone felt there was something in the air but did not know what it was.”(276) Martha is finally realizing that the rumors about Germany that everyone tried to tell her were true. She was living in denial until now.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeletePG. 221
The lives of the Dodd's was undergoing a slight change. They once felt secure in the realm of their own homes to say what they pleased. However, now they have to think twice about what they say or do considering the new change. Berlin is now being "watched" at a little more closer view then before. Police were showing up to people's door who didn't even know why they were there. A simple conversation on the phone can turn into evidence pinned against you, while intruding on your personal life. Some went as far as refusing to sleep in ski lodges, because of the fear that they might slip a peep in their sleep. Some even procrastinated surgery using anesthetics just with the fright that they would say something wrong, The fear within the area of Berlin continued to grow.
Quote:
"Here was an entire nation... infested with the contagion of an ever present fear...."(221) therefore nobody had the confidence to stand up to conformity. Even the Germans were living in fear, this should clearly reflect the living standards in Germany.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeletePages 212-213
From America’s perspective it looked like the prosecution of Jews in Germany was at bay. American journalists were writing positive things about Berlin and were saying that everything was fine. Larson tells us that thousands of Jews had come back into Germany after fleeing the country the year before. Americans believed that Germany had changed for the good and thought they had nothing to worry about anymore. Schweitzer knew this was just a cover up for all the bad that was happening behind the scenes. Hitler was playing the role of a peace maker again which is important because this shows how well Hitler deceived people. This is going to hurt America in the long run because we believed we had nothing to worry about so America backed off.
Quote:
• “At first glance, persecution of the Jews seemed also to have eased” (212).
• This quote is important because it shows how deceiving Hitler was. He made the world believe that Germany was fine and back to normal when in reality it was still the same. Jews were coming back to Germany because Hitler made it seem normal. This shows how amazing Hitler was at acting because he never stopped hating the Jews and wanted all of them persecuted.
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ReplyDeleteThe Nazi Empire stunned its critics around the world, when the chancellor Hitler drove the country out of the economic depression of the time. The leader of the, then, most economically stable country; Hitler’s stagnant ideas seemed to loosen up as Germany transitioned into the year 1934. The war-promoting leader, as the foreign diplomats deduced Hitler after his promotion to chancellor, actually promoted the idea of agreeing upon some type of cooperation treaty with the Allied Powers from the World War I. Representatives of the British Government and Martha Dodd shared the opinion that “Hitler is[was] improving definitely” (210). (209-210). The paraphrase implicitly tries to answer the question of why was Hitler able to violate the restrictions that were put on Germany after the First World War Hitler was underrated as he was first expected to fail in improving “the economic depression” and later misinterpreted to be a peace-seeker.
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David J. Schweitzer, a senior official with “the Joint”, comments on the present position of Nazi Germany. He writes, ”‘So much is this the actual situation or so well masked is it that I heard an American, one who has just spent a week passing on to a neighboring country, remark that he could not see that anything has actually happened that so stirred the outside world’ ” (213). The quote also foreshadows the dawn of a violent Nazi Germany that the foreign countries failed to predict on time.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteThe trial occurred with hundreds of armed soldiers inside Madison Square Garden. The Trial determined that Hitler was guilty of compelling his people into a barbarous group of people who are a threat to the rest of the world.
Quote:
“Hitler dismissed it out of hand. The effort would fail, he said, no matter how much money the commission raised. The Jews, he said, would turn it into a weapon to “attack Germany and make endless trouble.”
This quote is significant because it represents Hitler’s unchanging view on the Jews and the “trouble” they cause. When presented with a solution to help both Hitler and the Jews, Hitler immediately tossed the idea and continued to throw shade on the Jews. His hatred is quite evident and Hitler’s motives are revealed.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteMartha’s newest relationship, a man named Boris, gains the attention of his superiors in the NKVD. They notice that Martha’s excitement for the German revolution has decreased a considerable amount, and from this the NKVD sees an opportunity to recruit Martha to their side. If Martha becomes a spy for Moscow this could bring a dangerous situation to her in the future of her stay in Germany, and if she doesn’t Moscow may go after her.
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Internal strife in the government of Germany causes Goring to act out against Himmler over the possible arrest of Diels. While he may have successfully saved Diels, Larson explains that “Himmler, however, had won the greatest prize, the last and most important component of his secret-police empire” (251). This sudden shift in power may lead to a quickening pace in the violent attack’s occurrences.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteSpies became interested in the Dodd family. Martha and Boris’ relationship gave the NKVD an opportunity. The spies came through Boris to try to get to Martha, and then to her father. They wrote Boris a message saying basically they needed him for a project they are interested in. Through Boris, Moscow learned that Martha’s interest in the Nazi revolution was beginning to wane. (254)
Quote:
“In months following Hitler’s ascension to chancellor, the German writers who were not outright Nazis had quickly divided into two camps—those who believed it was immoral to remain in Germany and those who felt the best strategy was to stay put, recede as much as possible from the world, and wait for the collapse of the Hitler regime” (270).
This quote is significant because it seems as if the Germans get so much more of an advantage then anyone else. The writers in this quote have the chance to want to stand with Hitler or want to stay away and wait for him to collapse. Little did they know now how long it would take to get Hitler to “collapse”.
Paraphrase
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of part V, Larson accounts us of the beheadding of Marinus van der Lubbe. Larson tells us that " he received word from the public prosecutor that he was to be beheaded the next day"(209). This passage is significant because it sets the mood for part V.
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"Dodd and others who had spent time in Germany knew full well that Hit;er was intent on increasing the size of Germany"(214).
This quote is significant because it worries Dodd about the actions hitler will commit and how Dodd is going to react.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning Of Part V of Erik Larson's, In The Garden Of Beasts, William Dodd and his family become the targets of a group of spies associated with the NKVD. The spies gained the interest by the Dodd family was Boris and Martha. Through moscow in the russian campaign the Nazi regime came to a halt by the rejection of the Soviets.
Quote:
'Early in January boris arranged a tryst with Martha that yielded one of the most unusual romantic encounters she had experienced"
This is important as to how Martha felt about the relationship with Boris.
Paraphrase: Borris and Martha are continuing their relationship and becoming more serious. Borris tells Martha to get ready for a date and to wear his favorite dress on her. They went to Horcher’s restaurant and dinned in a private room. Martha was confused as to why Borris was being so romantic and Borris only smiled. Borris took Martha back to his home and she got to meet his daughter. Martha got to experience a Russian night, and she admits it was one of the strangest nights of her life.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “It was Rudolf Deils who first conveyed to Martha the unfunny reality of Germany’s emerging culture of surveillance” (224).
This is significant to the text as a whole because it expresses the lack of privacy everyone had in Germany. The Nazi officials had access to anything and could plant speakers to listen to anyone’s conversations. This represents how bad Germany was and the lack of trust the officials had in their citizens. They were out to get anyone who was against them.
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