Along with
hope
and perseverance,
luck
was
also present
in Thaler's
experience
in Dachau.
For
example,
just
when
Thaler
had been pushed
to
the
brink
of
death
from
difficult
physical
labor,
he becomes
ill
and
is
sent
to
the sick ward, where he is exempted
from
all
work
in
the camp
and gets
extra
"care." His time
there gives
him
the extra boost
of
energy
he
needs
to
get
through this
part of his
sentence.
Another
example
of Thaler's
luck
is when his
sentence
is
shortened
from
ten
years
to
two
and
a
half. "Then
he
told
me
that
my
sentence had been
commuted
from
ten to
two
and
a
half
years in the
concentration
camp" (Thaler
92).
With
luck
on
his
side, Thaler was
finally
able
to
be
reunited
with
his
family
and
friends
aftet along,
tough
time
at
Dachau
and
its
surrounding
camps.
It
is
evident
that
Udorgottentakesplace
during the
time of
World
War
II
and
the
Holocaust.
These
horrible
events
in
our
history
were
both
caused
by
Adolf Hitler,
the
former dictator
of
Nazi
Germany.
Hitler
had
a
warped
vision
that,
by ridäing
the
world
of
all
Jews,
he could
purify
the German
"race," who
he
thought of
as
the master
race.
Along
with
Jews,
Hitler
also
aimed
to eliminate
gypsies, people
with
mentäl
and
physical
disabilities,
and
Polish people.
To
do
this, he paralyzedthe
government
of
Germany
so
the
Nazi
pars
could take over. Then,
Hitler
set
up concentration
camps
around his
rapidly
growing
empire.
These camps
were
designed
to
work
people to
their
limits,
and
the
survivai
rate
was
low.
Concentration
camps
were
all
outfitted
with
various
instruments
of torture
and death,
like
the
gas showers.
According to
the website
Holocaust:
A
Call to
Conscience,
five
to six
million
Jews
were
killed
in
these camps
between 7933
afi1945.
WWil
was
just
a
continuation
of World
War
I, which
ended
without
its
primary
conllict
solved. The Treaty
of Versailles
was
supposed
to
resolve the war,
but
it
actually
had
hidden
deals
that
decided
the
distribution of
the German
territories.
one
of
the
causes
of
WWI
was
territory
control,
and
as
you
can
see,
this
was never resolved.
During
WWIL
there were
actually two
holocausts
going
on. One
is
the
extremely
famous
Holocaust,
and
the other is referred
to
as
the
"Hidden Holocaust."
The
Hidden Holocaust
consisted
of
an
overwhelming
number
of
"criminals"
such
as
homosexuals
and
people
like
Thaler.
These
people were
denied
becoming soldiers
and
were taken
to
concentration camps'
Even
though
these
people
might
not
be Jews,
they
were
still
considered
"polluters of
the master
