"Ordinary Men" to "Japanese Soldiers".
Iris Chang's "Rape of Nanking" is a book that fails to heal but rather sears all efforts for good international relations because it prioritizes passion at the cost of basic historical facts. While Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men" tells the story of Police Battalion 101, and how they play a role in the Second World War in Europe. Both of these books outline what kinds of items a civilian would be subjected to during wartime. This ranges from persecution, certain death, or to begin made to mobilize to help one country's war effort. In Brown's Ordinary men he shows in detail the sequence of events and individual reactions which may turn ordinary men into killers.
To understand where the story of these so-called "ordinary men" there must be an in-depth look taken at why these groups of Reserve Policemen where formed. The .
Order Police resulted from the third attempt in war enraged Germany to create large police forces with military and equipment. The police force that was created was supposed to work along side the German military to secure lands that the German army has conquered. Before the start of WWII the use of these men had not been thought about, but with the German army quickly advancing someone would have to occupy conquered lands. That is were these Order Police come into play. Police Battalion 101 was used a great deal in Poland. They were subsequently involved in rounding up Polish soldiers cut off behind advancing lines. They also collected military equipment that was abandoned by the retreating Poles, and also providing other services to secure the rear areas. (chap 2 Browning).
Another duty that the Order Police were placed with was the collection and deportation of the Jews that occupied Poland. Early in the war they were used in Poland to collect the Jewish people and load then on trains that where headed to the ghettos were these Jewish people were to be contained.
Even though, in death, the soldier must leave England, it's only for a little while. ... Line 14: When the soldier dies he will go to an "English heaven." ... That, at any rate, is what the second half of "The Soldier" tells us. ... So check it out: like any sonnet, "The Soldier" has 14 lines. ... ANALYSIS SPEAKER The speaker of "The Soldier," is the soldier. ...
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. In the first stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est he describes the men and the condition they are in and through his language shows that the soldiers deplore the conditions. ... This sudden situation causes the soldiers to hurriedly put their gas masks on, but one soldier did not put it on in time. ... Owen uses simile to explain better the situation faced by the men. ... Owen uses this image group usually to describe the situation of a soldier or soldiers during the poem. ...
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. In the first stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est he describes the men and the condition they are in and through his language shows that the soldiers deplore the conditions. ... This sudden situation causes the soldiers to hurriedly put their gas masks on, but one soldier did not put it on in time. ... Owen uses simile to explain better the situation faced by the men. ... Owen uses this image group usually to describe the situation of a soldier or soldiers during the poem. ...
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers (A Description) There was a time when the Cheyenne had no formal government. ... One of these warrior societies, known as the Dog Soldiers (or Dog Men), rose in power to become the most powerful of all, and became the dominant police and military force of the Cheyenne. ... These men served as a rear guard to protect the Cheyenne people. ... These men had great fighting skills and incomparable courage. Dog Men always carried a bow and arrows. ...
In the song "Buffalo Soldier" the author calls its audience to see that there have been sacrifices of black men in America. ... Throughout his life Bob Marley was deeply troubled when men where not judged by their character, but by their skin color, and the amount of money they possessed. ... These regiments where formed by black men commanded to fight (pro white interests). ... The purpose of this song is to honor and extol the life of many black Rastafarians or Buffalo Soldiers (as the Native American Indians called the African men) living in America. ... The fighting, for the Buffalo So...
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori The poem "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen gives us an inside view of what it was like for soldiers in the appalling conditions of trench warfare from 1914 until 1918. ... This gives us an impression of what it must have been like for the soldiers. ... The uniforms worn by the men would have been torn, dirty and pieces missing causing the men to be unhappy. ... We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as they stroll towards their distant rest because the passage states that the men where "deaf even to...
Guns booming, missiles crashing, and soldiers yelling for help, in my mind this is exactly what I think my brother is walking into. ... Also there is the occasional person that bad mouths what the soldiers are over in Iraq doing, usually when I hear those words I bite my tongue but one of these days im going to speak my mind. Do they really think these men and women want to be away from their families, in some strange place where there is the possibility of dying? ...
The intensity that these men fought with has not been replicated since the Civil War and is because, unlike some other wars, the men fought not for survival, but for a common cause (4). ... Quite often only half of the men in a particular unit would do the fighting. Some men were too scared or cowardice to fight. ... However, the great number of men, both Confederate soldiers and Union soldiers, wanted to fight. ... Religion and the need for God were almost identical between the Union soldiers and the Confederate soldiers. ...
