Hi guys, here I will tell you a story about "The Wave" Oke, pleased read bellow.
Hitler and the Nazis
Chapter: 1
Ben Ross taught history at Gordon High School. One afternoon he
showed a film about Hitler and the Nazis.’ At the end of the film, he told his
students: ‘The Nazis killed more than ten million men, women and children.’ A
student near the door turned the lights on. Ben looked round. He saw sad faces
all round the room. ‘I know many of you are very sad,’ Ben told the students,
‘But I want you to think about what you saw. Does anybody have any questions?’ Amy
Smith put her hand up. ‘What was the place in the film called?’
‘It
was called Auschwitz. The Nazis built Auschwitz to kill people quickly.’ The room was very quiet. Amy put her hand up
again. ‘Were all the Germans Nazis?’ she asked. ‘No, most Germans were not
Nazis.’
‘Did
the German people try to stop them?’ Amy asked.
‘No,
most Germans didn’t try to stop the Nazis,’ Ben told her. ‘Perhaps they were
afraid of them.’
‘But
why were they afraid?’
‘You
must remember that life was very hard in Germany at mat time,’ said Ben. ‘There
weren’t very many Nazis but they had guns. And after 1945 most Germans said,
“We didn’t know that they killed all those people. We didn’t know about
Auschwitz.” Now Laurie Saunders put her hand up. ‘I can’t believe that,’ she
said. ‘I think they knew what happened.’ Ben was happy that his students were
interested. They were not usually interested in history. ‘Only they know what
they knew,’
Ben told Laurie. ‘And we don’t know why most German people did not
try to stop the Nazis.’ It was time for lunch. The students left the room
quickly. David Collins looked over at Laurie. ‘Come on, Laurie,’ he said.
‘Let’s go to lunch. I’m hungry.’
‘I’ll
be down in a few minutes, David,’ said Laurie. David went off to lunch. There were only a few
students left in the room now. Laurie looked up at Mr Ross. ‘How many people
did the Nazis kill?’ Laurie asked her teacher.
‘They
killed more than six million Jews. And about four million others.’
‘But
why did they kill them? Were all the Nazis bad people?’
Mr
Ross put his books in his bag. For about a minute he was quiet. Then he turned
to Laurie. ‘I don’t know, Laurie,’ said Mr Ross. ‘I can’t answer that
question.’
A
few minutes later, Laurie sat next to David in the school restaurant. ‘Look at
Robert Billings,’ said David. ‘Nobody wants to sit with him.’ Robert tried to
sit next to two students from Mr Ross’s history lesson. The students stood up
and went to another table. ‘Do you think there’s something wrong with him?’ Laurie
asked. ‘I don’t know,’ said David. ‘He’s very strange. But perhaps that’s
because he doesn’t have any friends.’ David began eating again. Laurie did not
eat any of her lunch. Her face was very sad. ‘What’s wrong?’ David asked. ‘That
film, David,’ Laurie answered. ‘I thought it was very sad. Did you think it was
sad?’
‘Yes,
but those things happened a long time ago,’ said David. ‘You can’t change what
happened then.’
‘But
we mustn’t forget that it did happen,’ Laurie said. Amy Smith and Brian Amman came over to
their table. ‘I want to sit here,’ said Amy. ‘I was here first!’
‘No, I want to sit here,’ said Brian. ‘I
want to talk to David about our football team. We’re playing Clarkstown on
Saturday.’
‘And I want to talk to Laurie about The Grapevine.’ David played football
for the Gordon High team. Laurie wrote for the school newspaper. It was called The Grapevine. Laurie laughed. ‘It’s
OK, there are two places,’ she said. Brian and Amy sat down. ‘Will you win on
Saturday?’ Laurie asked. ‘I’m going to write about the game for next week’s Grapevine.’
‘I don’t know,’ said David. ‘Our players
don’t have much discipline.’
‘That’s right,’ said Brian. ‘And we don’t
have any good new players.’
Later, Amy Smith and Laurie Saunders sat
in the office of The Grapevine. ‘That
was a very sad film,’ Amy said. ‘What did David think of it?’
‘David doesn’t think about sad things,’
said Laurie. ‘All he thinks about is football.’
‘What are you and David going to do next
year?’ Amy asked. ‘I don’t know,’ said Laurie. ‘I don’t know what we’ll do when
we finish school. Perhaps we’ll go away together. I love David, but I don’t
know what is going to happen to us. We’re very young.’
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