Chapter+17

=**Chapter 17: The Wrong Time**=

Memorable Passages:

 * Christine's body was being taken over to the street and stretched out alongside the others. Philip staggered toward her until he saw two SS men, pistols drawn, coming towards him. He turned and ran back though the dark cloud of dust that hung in the courtyard. Although he herd shots and thought he felt bullets whistling by, he kept running. He climbed a pile or rubble that had leveled a fence, jumped into the alley and kept going without thinking he ran as fast as he could toward the hospital. His coat flapped where it had been torn, the yellow Jewish star dangling from his chest. **

**Summary:**

 * The chapter begins by revealing that Johann did not feel much at the news of his son's death. However, he saw it coming; Paul-Adolf grew up knowing only the world containing Hitler. The chapter continues on to revel that when Helga found out about Paul-Adolf's death, she was sent a letter that contained one sentance telling her that he died protecting Germany. She also received a box containing the belongings of another man.**


 * Philipp and Christine heard on the radio that the Nazis had surrendered at Stalingrad. The reader then learns that while Philipp is walking home from work, he stops to buy postcards of Hitler. He then finds a place where he can burn them in private. We then learn that Philipp has been captured by the Nazis. When Christine found out she went to the community building and found out that Philipp was being held there. Herself and others protested for three days and the captured Jews were released. Both later learned that there were more and more and more people on their side. The bombings in Germany increased. Philpp had high hopes that the war would soon be over. However, he would find that this war would take Christine from him on Christmas day.**

Characters:
**Christine Stein (362): Phillips wife killed in bombings of Berlin **

**Paul Adolf (344): killed in Russia fighting in deaths head unit of the S.S **

**Frau Ziegler (349): Neighbor of Phillip and Christine who warns the Gestapo who took Philip. **

**Goebbles (352): Nazi leaders in Berlin ordered rounding up of jewish men with Aryan wives. **

**Hermann Goering (355): Head of the Luftwaffe declared he would change name to “Meier” if any enemy war plane succeeded in harming Germany. **

**Vocab:**
** Banalities (344)- A trite or obvious remark ** ** Invariably (344)- On every occasion always ** **Immense (345)- Extremely large or great ** **Furlough ( 346)- Leave of absence ** **Abruptly (348)- Quickly and without warning ** **Lurched (348)- Make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements ** **Truncheons ( 349)- A staff or baton acting as a symbol of authority ** **Reverberated (351)- Be repeated several times as an echo ** **Heed (357)- Pay attention to; take notice of ** **Meticulously ( 358)- In a meticulous manner; showing great attention to detail ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thronged (359)- Fill or be present in a place or area **

**Key Historical Events/ Concepts:** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Auschwitz <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wehrmacht: German armed forces ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mutti:Mom ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pfennige: Former monetary unit ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gestapo: A secret police organization employing under handed and temonist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rosenstrabe: Protest ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fuhrer:A leader especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aushamen:To wait ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vaterland:Fatherland ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The German S.S.]:Hitlers bodyguard assort of elite corp part of the army ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gymnasium:German school system ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|BBC News]:British broadcasting corporation ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pfenmige:Pennies ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aryan:Nazi ideal race ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Vati:Father **