Comparison Of Hitler And George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Martin Niemoller was trying to show everyone that read his poem what Hitler was creating and doing to the country. He was trying to get people to see the harm in what Hitler was standing for, how people might not have cared when he came for all of the jews and communist and others, but how all of their thoughts would change when Hitler came for them. Niemoller was trying to make people understand that it didn’t matter if you weren’t a jew or a communist or a trade unionist, that Hitler was still killing people and it didn’t matter who they were. That when the time came and Hitler was coming after you that nobody would speak up for you because there wasn’t anybody left because somebody didn’t speak up for them. He tried to show them to stand up for others because maybe one day they will be standing up for you. …show more content…

“ They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood.”. Both Hitler and Napoleon can be seen as dictators, who destroyed everything in their path to reach their goal. Such as, Hitler destroying Germany and all its different types of people. Then when Napoleon went after Snowball because he wanted full control over the farm, but the way Snowball was “preaching” it would never be possible, so in order to achieve their goal they both destroyed something for Hitler in was Germany, but for Napoleon it was

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