Chapter+20

=Chapter 20: Enormous Relief=

“There was no hole. Instead, he saw a weeping, raw- edged gash shaped roughly like a bent, jagged swastika on the back of his hand. Was this a joke?" -(401)
 * Memorable passages**


 * Biography**

Meier- he remembers meeting Johann at Phillip and Chirstines wedding; seems kinder then before

Schetzeler- drinks to cover his shame/ problems with what is going on around him.

Hunched back nurse- fairly detached and oblivious (pg.400)

Short doctor- detached, unemotional towards his patients (pg. 402)

Judge- extremely loyal to Hitler (pg.407)


 * Propaganda**
 * Vocab.**

Rendezvous(397) – a meeting at a specified time and place.

Metallic(398) – of the nature of metal.

Tourniquet(398) – any device for stopping bleeding.

Scrawl(399) – to write awkwardly.

Naphtha(400) – an inflammable liquid distilled from petroleum.

Sadistic(401) – deriving pleasure from cruelty

Maligned(407) – to speak evil of, to slander.

Silhouette(408) – the outlive or general shape of something.

Incarceration(409) – the act of putting someone in prison.

Bailiff((409) – an officer employed to keep order in the court.


 * Historian**

(395) ja- yeah

(397) Auf Wiedersehen- good bye

(397) Meine- my

(401) plattdeutsch- low German

(403) Reichsgesundheitsamt- the office of the ministry of health

(404) Ausharren- persevere

(404) volk- people

(404) vaterland- fatherland

(405) Fuhrer- leader in Germany title

(405) beobachter- observer

(405) amis- the Americans

(406) Gestapo- a secret police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty

(407) reich- kingdom

(407) tor- fool

(408) mein kampf- a book written by Hitler in 1925

Summary
In chapter 20 we flash forward to Johann helping Meier clean up the bricks, he talks of Phillip and Christine, and how they were a family. We then flash forward to September morning 1944. We learn that Johann was injured during the bombing of Auschwitz and was then taken to Berlin for medical care. As a result of the injury Johann must undergo surgery on his hand. We soon learn that there was a mistake during surgery, and when Johann tries to open it, it stays closed, when he wants it closed it stays open. Also a very large and prominent swastika scar is now on the back of his hand. After he was released Johann explores Berlin and sees the damages of bombing. While on his way to receive a new assignment Johann is arrested for saying that he did not believe that Germany would win the war. After a day in a cell he is released and continues on his way.