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The context of Burke’s essay: Seventy-seven years ago, the Nazis expelled 17,000 Polish Jews from Germany, and Poland wouldn’t accept them. A Jewish teenager whose parents were trapped in this no-man’s land killed a German diplomat, which appeared to lead to\u00a0the violence of Nov 9, 1938,\u00a0known now as\u00a0“The Night of Broken Glass<\/a>.” In reality, though, the pogroms were carefully orchestrated by Nazis.\u00a0Take a peek at that first.<\/p>\n

Then, in groups of 3-4, respond to the following questions about Burke’s “Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle.”<\/p>\n

1. This piece appears in\u00a0The Southern Review<\/i>\u00a0in 1939, before the official beginning of World War II and just after the full version of\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/i>\u00a0was translated in full into English. Most Americans had simply declared Hitler evil and dismissed\u00a0Mein Kampf.<\/i>\u00a0Why does Burke say we must read it and read it carefully?<\/p>\n

2. Burke notes that every movement must have it’s Rome–Hitler’s was Munich–and then he describes Hitler’s most basic unifying move: crafting the symbol of a common enemy as scapegoat. How does that process work and what is involved in it?<\/p>\n

3. Why does Burke say Mein Kampf<\/em> cannot be simply dismissed as “irrational” even if it is actually quite nuts?<\/p>\n

4. On page 198, Burke quotes Hitler: “I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off Jews I am fighting for the Lord’s work.”\u00a0 What is the enthymeme at work in that quote? Sketch\u00a0it out: major premise, minor premise, conclusion.<\/p>\n

5. On page 202-204, Burke identifies 4 important features of Hitler’s unification device (that is, ways to bring his audience into identification with him and each other). What are they, and how do they work?<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Name some of the formal topics<\/a> Hitler uses to make his case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The context of Burke’s essay: Seventy-seven years ago, the Nazis expelled 17,000 Polish Jews from Germany, and Poland wouldn’t accept them. A Jewish teenager whose parents were trapped in this no-man’s land killed a German diplomat, which appeared to lead to\u00a0the violence of Nov 9, 1938,\u00a0known now as\u00a0“The Night of Broken Glass.” In reality, though, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":50,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}