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This 3 page paper applies the Orwell’s statement “if one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality” to Nazism. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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be able to dislocate the sense of reality" and applies it to Nazi Germany. Discussion Another way of looking at this is that in order to continue in power, a
regime as corrupt and evil as the Nazis has to somehow convince the population that their insane practices are normal. History shows that the Nazis were able to convince Jews
to register, allow themselves to be rounded up and put in ghettos, and eventually to be sent to extermination camps. Only in a world where values and standards have been
turned inside out can such things happen. Orwells book is available on line at and in it we find concepts that seem to fit exactly with the Nazi ideology.
A typical example is Orwells creation of "Newspeak," in which language is twisted to make the impossible seem logical. The three slogans of the Party depicted in the book are
"War is Peace"; "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength." Looked at clearly, none of these makes any sense at all: war is the exact opposite of peace just as
freedom is the exact opposite of slavery. Ignorance isnt precisely the opposite of strength; its exact opposite is knowledge. But it can be argued that ignorant people are easily fooled
and easily led, so that they are weak in that sense. A perfect example of how the Nazis used this kind of inverted ideology is in their slogan "Arbeit macht
Frei," which loosely translates as "work makes one free" and which was posted over the entrance to the Auschwitz extermination camp (Memorial and museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2009). The work that the
prisoners in these camps were forced to do had nothing to do with their freedom; they labored until they died solely on behalf of the Nazi war effort. Others were
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