Chapter+13

=Chapter 13: In this Direction=

Memorable Passages:
Johann thought about the children. About Greta and Paul Adolf. About the little boy with Graeber in the policlinic. The boys and girls in Koblenz... and especially bout that harmless boy at Grafenck.so many children. all of them now, harmed and lost (pg. 255)

Most of all, I felt sorry for myself, so powerless to do anything for her, so unable to accept this about myself. Instead, I sought to find power where I could, in order to believe in myself again. That may account for my joining the Party when I did and for my works with the Nazi Physicians League in the Rhineland. But it does not excuse it. I was headed in this direction before Greta took ill, before we married, perhaps. I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted this power.

Summary:
In chapter 13, Greta is going through her illness a lot worse than before. She lay in her bed for months, could not stand, and she no longer spoke. They brought her to the hospital to clear he lungs and visited he every evening at the ward. Johann did not think she was going to die, but she did, six days after she was admitted. While at the table, Johann was talking about going to Munich. Paul Adolf was talking about his field trip to Weissenbrunn. Helga was very upset with both of them because all they talked about were the interests of Hitler and the Nazi party. She wished they would talk about poor Greta, or else not speak at all. After lunch, they went to the cemetery to see Greta's coffin being lowered into the ground. Johann tried to hold back tears and tightened his grip on Helga's hand. Johann signed up for the Nazi party without telling Helga. Helga pretty much gave up and let Johann do whatever he wanted to do. Phillip now worked at a Jewish hospital and had a boss named Lustig. Lustig was more interested in Christine, Phillip's wife, than in Phillip's working papers.

Characters:
Doctor Gerhad Wagner: Nazi Doctor

Doctor Wolfgang Abel: High ranking Nazi Doctor

Doctor Zimmer: Aryian Doctor, Phillipp’s patients are being sent to him

Fraupichellim: Patient

Graeber: Super raceist; destigunished Nazi doctor

Bruggers: Family friends of the Stiens

Vocabulary:

 * Damnable** (292)- extremely bad/unpleasant (292)


 * Disheveled** (295)- untidy; disoderly (295)


 * Tourniquets** (298) - a device that checks blood flow


 * Congreate** (298) - a grouping

I**nfielity** (296) -a belif in post war religion


 * Yiddish** (299) - Language used by the Jews in germany

I**mbeciles** (263)- an inferior person; stupid


 * Morphology** (264)- the study of the structure of an organism


 * Anthropology** (264): the study of the human body


 * Disparaged** (276): belittle; discredit