Thucydides, a Greek historian, stated, “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” The meaning of this quote is that freedom is one of the strongest human needs and people should have the courage to fight for their freedom. An example of people fighting for freedom is the Jews when Hitler is the leader of Germany, because during that time their freedom is taken away, they had a really tough life.
During the rule of Hitler, thousands of Jews had to fight for their freedom to be seen as equals. Hitler used propaganda to convince the Germans that Jews were bad, dirty and mean, he basically brainwashed them, and therefore Jews were seen as ugly people. Hitler hated Jews so much because he thought all Jews were the ones that were responsible for making the Germans suffer from hyperinflation-meaning extremely rapid/out of control inflation, because of this he put them into concentration camps to separate them from the ‘true’ Germans. This information shows that Hitler was a racist person and if anyone treats him bad he can remember it for really long time and will try to take revenge on it because Hitler treats all the Jews like puppets even though most of them are innocent. As mentioned earlier by Thucydides “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” Meaning that people should stand up for themselves for freedom but surprisingly the Jews didn’t stood up even though their freedom is taken away, many people is being a bystander therefore Hitler became powerful.
d they be lucky enough to be alive? They all lived under the control of fear. Some tried to hide from being caught, but it’s hard unless they had a German friend or else they can die of hunger because no one will sell them food. They will easily be caught to the concentration camp because there were many soldiers everywhere; therefore there were no escape for the Jews. In my opinion I think that both Germans and Jews are also mankind so they should be treated same. It’s really unfair that they are treated differently because of where they are born in, where they come from and what their religion is. As mentioned earlier by Thucydides “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” If the Jews had courage to stand up against Hitler then they will be freedom and if they had freedom then they will have happiness.-->The Jews had an unpleasant life because of the religion they were from, they were treated differently. There were Jews that had survived until today. They had escaped from the concentration camp. To fight back, they spread the news of how they lived in the concentration camp, they fought back through education. This is so much better than fighting, because through education, kids can learn about the history and the moral of it and since kids are the future then they can pass on the history then more and more people would know about it.
As mentioned earlier by Thucydides “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” If I was powerful when Hitler rules, I would probably stand up for having everyone treated equally. What is worth for fighting? Its freedom. I feel that I am really lucky that I don’t have to suffer the experience that the Jews had back before and I don’t need to live under the control of fear. I appreciate my life of freedom that I am having now. Life without Freedom will never be happy.
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I liked how you started with a quote that was very relevant to your topic and one that I agree with as well. I also liked how you used the holocaust as an example for this topic. A lot of Jews were imprisoned and I liked what you said about keeping control with fear, and I think that is exactly what the Nazis did. However, I did see a few grammatical errors in your blog.It would be nice if they were fixed, but its the meaning of what you wrote which is more important than the grammar. But what if those very Nazis who imprisoned the Jews were imprisoned themselves? Would they deserve freedom? Does everyone just get freedom? Or is freedom earned?
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