Current Event #4 T2 "Remarkable tale of Hitler's young Jewish friend"

In summary of the article “Remarkable tale of Hitler's young Jewish friend”, an old photograph of Adolf Hitler and a young Jewish girl by the name of Rosa Bernile Nienau went up for auction. This picture helps tell an amazing story about the past. This is not just any propaganda photo, you can see real joy in both Hitler’s, and the little girl’s eyes. The image up for auction is even signed and dated by Hitler, and the little girl seemed to have added flowers on top of the black and white image after it was sent to her. It is said that they met on Hitler’s Alpine trip, and He discovered they shared a birthday. People believe he then invited Rosa and her mother up to his cabin, where the pictures were taken. They were able to maintain contact for up to 5 years via letter before the Nazi forces told Rosa and her mother to stop. Hitler did not fancy this, and even said that there are people who always find a way to spoil all of his joy. That was a year before WWII broke out. Sadly, Rosa did not survive the war and died of Polio at age 17. 10 years after she met Hitler for the first time.
   My opinion on this story is that It really shows that people can have multiple sides. I am really wondering what was going through Hitler's head when he decided this one girl was innocent of what he thought all the other Jews were capable of. Did he see the innocence in her eyes? Did he realize that an entire war could not have been lost just because of a 7-year-old child? If Nazi forces hadn’t told them to stop contact, could Rosa have convinced him to stop concentration camps? I guess we’ll never know because the past is the past and there is no erasing it. We can only hope we don't copy it. But that's just my opinion. What’s yours?


"Remarkable Tale of Hitler's Young Jewish Friend." BBC News. November 13, 2018. Accessed March 04, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46192941.

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