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History
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Unforgotten
History
Book
Report
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my
book
report
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Unforgottenby
Franz
Thaler,
a
narrated
history book.
It
is
a
true
story
told by
Thaler
as
he
lives through
Worid
War
II.
He
tells his
story
in
immense detail, describing
the
terror of
Hitler's
rule.
I
believe the main
point of this book
is
teaching the current
children
and
people
who
weren't
alive during
Hitler's
regime,
how
terrible
and
horrendous
World
War
II
really
was.
I think
another
important
main
point in
the book was
explaining
why
and
how
the
war
started.
I
enjoyed reading
this book
because
of
the personal
insight
I
gained about
World
War
II
and
its numerous
causes.
There
are
countless examples
of
the
torhre
that was
inflicted
upon the many
people
living
in
Europe
and
around the
world
at
the
time of
the
Second
World
War. This
is
a
quotation
from
Thaler's
book when
him
and
his
fellow
prisoners experience pure
abuse
because
of
the difference between
their
cultures:
"When
we were marching we
always
had
to
sing, sometimes
even
Tyrolian
songs,
but
usually
dirty
songs,
the
kind
the
SS
enjoyed. When the
guards
noticed that
someone was not
joining
in
there was
a
hail
of
blows"
(Thaler
96).
This
quotation explains the
brutality
of
the rules
of
the
SS
guards.
Even
if
you
didn't
believe in singing
Tyrolian
songs,
you
were forced
to
or
else
you
would
face
an even
worse beating. The
SS
guards
did
this
just
so
they
could
enjoy
themselves more.
This is only
one
of
the many
terrible
crimes
ths
§§:.guards
committed
during
World
War
iI.
Another
example
of
torture that Thaler
survived
was starvation.
He
u.ent w-ithout
food
for
days:
"It
was
the
fifth
day
without
food
and
I
no
longer thought we
could
get
any" (Thaler
133).
These
prisoners
not only
went
without
food
for five
days.
the,v
had
been
stan
ed
for
many months
in
a
row.
This kind of torture
is unbelievable
and
I
cannot
understand
how Thaler
survived
this
degree
of
mistreatment.
There
are examples
within
the book that
explain
some
of
the
causes
of
World
War
II.
For
instance,
in this
quotation
from
the
beginning of
the
book: "The
first
signs
of
m1,
j
ournel,'
to
Dachau
w-ere
already evident
in
1939
.
In
June
of
that
same
year
Nazi
Germanv
