German Timeline Flashcards
Orientation
Description of Zollverin
‘populated with the coughs of sick children’
Orientation
Father in Mines
‘fathers swallowed by the mines’
Orientation
Description of Werner in spite of his situation
Werner ‘seems to float’
Frau Elana said ‘I think you’ll do something great’
Orientation
Something Rising
‘something new is rising’ … ‘extravagances unheard of a year before’
Orientation
Hitlers Quote
‘he alone’ is to be ‘thanked’ for ensuring that ‘a German life once again [became] worth living’
Orientation
Hitlers Youth
‘their salutes are comical’
‘no one laughs at Hitlers Youth now’
Entrance Exam
Nazi Values
‘we will only take the purest, only the strongest’
Entrance Exam
Jumping on the flag - underside of eyelids
‘undersides of his eyelids … men teeming out of the elevator shafts like ants … where his father was lost’
Entrance Exam
Jumping on the flag - jumping
‘Without hesitating … shuts his eyes and jumps’
Entrance Exam
Werners feeling of Life at Zollverien
‘lonely and forsaken and more trapped in his life than before’
Entrance Exam
question to Jutta
‘So you want me to stay? Go down in the mines?’
Entrance Exam
moral statements from Jutta
‘Is it right to do something because everyone else is doing it’
‘Lie to yourself, Werner, but don’t lie to me’
Von Rumpel
Age
‘not too old that he can’t be promoted’
Von Rumpel
Family Values (x2)
‘suffers his absences without complaint’
‘sacred resolve, proud accomplishments and unparalleled in history’
Volkheimer
Brutal
‘inure himself to the suffering of other beings’
Time in School
Feeling of success (@ start)
‘part of something so single-minded’ ‘such a hunger to belong’
Time in School
Weakest (#1) x3
‘feeling annoyed’ - ‘why hadn’t he practiced’
Wondered if ‘some part of him wants it to happen’
Time in School
Weakest (#2) x3
‘some people are weak in some ways .. Others in other ways’
‘is this not wrong, but here is it right’
Frederick is stronger than Werner in ‘every imaginable way’
January Recess
It doesnt matter
‘it doesnt matter what i want’ … ‘father needs me’
January Recess
ur problem
‘you still believe you own your life’
Prisoner
build up of negative
‘gradual’ build of ‘great dread’
Prisoner
running away
‘pure longing to flee’
‘Run. Run’
Prisoner
werners internal reminder
‘the hunched miners’ ‘enormous chains’ ‘everyone trapped in their roles’
Prisoner
werners action
‘like all the others’
Prisoner
fredericks recognition
‘he recognises there is something there’
Entropy
what is entropy
‘degree of randomness or disorder in a system’
Entropy
Nazis values
‘we (Nazis) represent an ordering to that chaos’ ‘greatest project human beings have ever embarked on’
Practice with Volkhiemer
Werner’s justification
‘only numbers’
‘pure math’
Practice with Volkhiemer
Werner’s feeling of confliction
‘being what everybody agrees is good’
‘he is betraying something’
Description of Frederick on Werner
‘liability’
Description of Fredericks condition
‘stuck in some terrible middle ground’
Werner finishing school and being put into the military
‘you are very lucky’
‘to serve is an honor’
Werners deployment
Entry into Army
‘no trumpets, no ceremony’
Werners deployment
burning cottage
‘everything leading to this moment’
Werners deployment
Child getting shot - justification
‘they do as they’re told’
‘they get scared’
‘name me someone who does not’
Werners deployment
reflection on freddy
‘but in the end it was Werner who pretended there was no choices’
‘Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down’
