Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow

Righteous Acts

Throughout humanity, human beings have been faced with ethnic hardships, conflict, and exclusion because of the battle for authority. Hence, in human nature, greed, and overall power consumes the mind of some people. Groups throughout the world yearn for the ability to be the mightiest one. These types of conflicts include ethnic shaming, racial exclusion, physical and verbal abuse, enslavement, imprisonment, and even death. Some of these conflicts were faced in all parts of Europe and the Pacific Region during World War II. During this dark time in history, people like Miss.Breed from Dear Miss Breed took initial action in what she thought was right, and gave hope to Japanese Internment Camp children by supplying books and
What these heroes of the past have in common is that they took action of what they truly believe is right. The best way to respond to conflict is based on a person’s general judgment on what they think is right or wrong, this will show how they take action during conflict.
In the story, Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow, the thoughts of independence and judgement were shown by German student, Sophie Scholl. Like any other teenager, Sophie started to gain thoughts of her own. She began to “grow away from the National Socialistic Ideas about race, religion, and duty”, as stated in Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow. Sophie immediately began to have her own ideas of society and politicians. What she noticed was that, she had different preferences on some of the subjects she was being taught at school. But unfortunately, Sophie was never able to share her ideas, because her Nazi teachers would not allow any kind of discussion or disagreement in the classroom. Which caused her to stop giving her Nazi teachers the answers to any National Socialistic question, which she thought was wrong. Her teachers soon grew upset with her, and the principle threatened to not allow Sophie to graduate. Sophie was horrified at