Today in Humanities, our teacher gave us a picture and on the picture, I noticed sereval things. First of all, under the old man's armpit in the picture, I can see a Communist sign a top of a piece of stone or something. He was also holding some gold coins which I think it might refer to when hyperinflation hits Germany. Also in his hands, he was holding what looked to me like a bended piece of metal or a stick. What all that might mean were when hyperinflation hits Germany, lots of people like the old man in the picture went poor and homeless and at the time, lots of Jewish people looks like the one in the picture, so I think it might also have something to do at the time with the Nazis harassing the Jews because the old man in this picture looks very poor and not well dressed.
The yellow background also makes the man stands out so I think they're trying to use this picture as a target or something because at that time, the Nazis hates the Jews and they never stopped killing them and bullying them. The Communist sign under the Jew's armit probably also meant that the Nazis wants to kill all the Jews just like how they killed the Communists.
This picture is the cover of the book called The Eternal Jew.
Thank You!
No comments:
Post a Comment