Tuesday, May 27, 2014

We're Cooked!

Kristallnacht fits in the metaphor of the "frog in boiling water". This is true because of the fact that instead of starting off with a full genocide (the boiling hot water instantly), it is started up by a small spark, Kristallnacht (the slow increase of heating), and continues on from there gradually. The frog finally dying/burning to death in the pot in the end of the Holocaust, as most people had just given up and gotten used to the terrible way of life that had introduced itself years before. The frog blatantly represents all of Hitler's victims (the disabled, Jews, etc.), and the pot itself is just Hitlers plans. The water is obviously the increasing amounts of attacks on the minorities in trial to destroy their race. The metaphor of the "frog in boiling water" plainly represents the Holocaust itself. The beginning of the boiling would be referred to as Kristallnacht.

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