Dachau themes and quotes Flashcards
What are the themes that must be discussed?
Imagery, tone, witnesses/statistics, prison guards/contrast, structure, ending
what were the quotes for imagery?
-‘Skeletons sat in the sun’
-‘The clothing was handled with order, but the bodies were dumped’
-‘longing to see the friends who had come at last, the prisoners rushed to the fence and died-electrocuted.
what were the quotes for tone?
-‘No one ever wanted to see Germany again. They turned away from it with hatred and sickness;’
-“There was no use in this place for a man to scream or cry out. It was no use for any man ever”
-‘for the first time anywhere, one could look at a dead man with gladness.’
what were the quotes for witnesses/statistics?
-“In four weeks you will be a young man again. You will be fine.”
-‘he inoculated 11,000 Dachau prisoners with tertiary malaria’
-“Here I am and I am finished and cannot help myself. Everyone is dead.”
what were the quotes for prison guards/contrast?
-‘from time to time the guards fired into the cars to stop the noise’
-‘they apologized for talking of such loathsome things to someone who lived in a real world’
-‘were “corrected,” as the Germans say, for any offense, real or imaginary.’
what were the quotes for structure?
-Large paragraphs used to describe ‘experiments’ and surgeries.
-‘In Dachau if you want to rest from one horror you go and see another.’
-‘We came out of Germany in a C-47 carrying American prisoners of war.’
what were the quotes for conclusion?
-‘if ever again we tolerate such cruelty we have no right to peace’
-‘We are not entirely guiltless, we the Allies’
-‘I do not know words fine enough to talk of the men who have lived in horror’
