All The Light Analysis

During warfare people tend to become more self concerned; their well-being becomes more important than others. Within All the light we cannot see Werner puts his wellbeing over Fredrick. When Fredrick is maliciously attracted by fellow students during the weakest training Werner idly stands by, he doesn’t even say a word. “This time he catches Frederick on the jaw… Werner forces his mind to keep sending up images of his home… is this not wrong? But Here it is right (Doerr, 194). After the attack happens Werner feels guilty, but Fredrick doesn’t blame him he even invites him to his home. “Not once has he accused Werner of is betrayal, even though Werner did nothing while Frederick was beaten and has done nothing since (Doerr, 217). Despite going through troubling times the anonymous woman in the memoir A Woman in Berlin goes out of her way to help the older widow. Throughout the diary the woman protects and shares her rations and
These heinous crimes were considered to be normal and expected to the women on the losing side. Within A Woman in Berlin and All the Light we cannot see the lower rank solders such as Peka were more violent during these acts while officers showed a gentler side. “Stay calm and they won’t shoot. I’ll make sure to go first. After that they’ll be gentler” (Doerr, 490). In reality the situation far more severe; Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi activist, wrote an essay about the massive rape of the German women during World War II.
“A Soviet officer told a group of women to seek safety in the Cathedral. Once they were securely locked inside, the beasts of Bolshevism entered, and ringing the bells and playing the organ, "celebrated" a foul orgy through the night, raping all the women, some more than thirty times. A Catholic pastor in Danzig declared, "They violated even eight-year-old girls and shot boys who tried to shield their mothers”