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‘Shooting Stars’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Poem Context
‘Shooting Stars’ by Carol Ann Duffy was written by the poet as a plea to humanity not to repeat the horrors of the past.
The poem is a recount of a Jewish woman as she waits for her death.
The woman describes the first hand horror of the violence that she witnesses.
The Holocaust The systematic, bureaucratic state sponsored persecution and slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s and their collaborators.
Not just Jews:
Communists Socialists Gypsies Homosexuals Disabled – physically and mentally.
Racial Superiority
The Nazis believed that anyone who could be labelled as ‘racially inferior’ needed to be cleansed in order to protect the ‘Ayran race’
Methods of killing
Einsatzgruppen
These were mobile killing units that carried out mass murder operations in Eastern Europe.
Large groups of people were rounded up and force to dig trenches. They would then stand on the side and where shot. They literally dug their own graves.
Gas Vans
Victims were herded into converted lorries and vans and taken for a drive The carbon monoxide produced by the engine was then pumped into the van killing all the people inside. A long slow death.
Gas Chambers
The introduction of Zyclone B gas (prussic acid) allowed the Nazi’s to murder vast numbers of inferiors in a relatively short time.
Total estimated victims
6 million Jews 3 million Soviet POWs 2 million ethnic Poles 1 million others
Estimated over 12 million victims
Equivalent to the annihilation of Greece
Poem Context
‘Shooting Stars’ by Carol Ann Duffy was written by the poet as a plea to humanity not to repeat the horrors of the past.
The poem is a recount of a Jewish woman as she waits for her death.
The woman describes the first hand horror of the violence that she witnesses.
The Holocaust The systematic, bureaucratic state sponsored persecution and slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s and their collaborators.
Not just Jews:
Communists Socialists Gypsies Homosexuals Disabled – physically and mentally.
Racial Superiority
The Nazis believed that anyone who could be labelled as ‘racially inferior’ needed to be cleansed in order to protect the ‘Ayran race’
Methods of killing
Einsatzgruppen
These were mobile killing units that carried out mass murder operations in Eastern Europe.
Large groups of people were rounded up and force to dig trenches. They would then stand on the side and where shot. They literally dug their own graves.
Gas Vans
Victims were herded into converted lorries and vans and taken for a drive The carbon monoxide produced by the engine was then pumped into the van killing all the people inside. A long slow death.
Gas Chambers
The introduction of Zyclone B gas (prussic acid) allowed the Nazi’s to murder vast numbers of inferiors in a relatively short time.
Total estimated victims
6 million Jews 3 million Soviet POWs 2 million ethnic Poles 1 million others
Estimated over 12 million victims
Equivalent to the annihilation of Greece
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