German Timeline

Question 1

Orientation
Description of Zollverin

Answer 1

‘populated with the coughs of sick children’

Question 2

Orientation
Father in Mines

Answer 2

‘fathers swallowed by the mines’

Question 3

Orientation
Description of Werner in spite of his situation

Answer 3

Werner ‘seems to float’
Frau Elana said ‘I think you’ll do something great’

Question 4

Orientation
Something Rising

Answer 4

‘something new is rising’ … ‘extravagances unheard of a year before’

Question 5

Orientation
Hitlers Quote

Answer 5

‘he alone’ is to be ‘thanked’ for ensuring that ‘a German life once again [became] worth living’

Question 6

Orientation
Hitlers Youth

Answer 6

‘their salutes are comical’
‘no one laughs at Hitlers Youth now’

Question 7

Entrance Exam
Nazi Values

Answer 7

‘we will only take the purest, only the strongest’

Question 8

Entrance Exam
Jumping on the flag - underside of eyelids

Answer 8

‘undersides of his eyelids … men teeming out of the elevator shafts like ants … where his father was lost’

Question 9

Entrance Exam
Jumping on the flag - jumping

Answer 9

‘Without hesitating … shuts his eyes and jumps’

Question 10

Entrance Exam
Werners feeling of Life at Zollverien

Answer 10

‘lonely and forsaken and more trapped in his life than before’

Question 11

Entrance Exam
question to Jutta

Answer 11

‘So you want me to stay? Go down in the mines?’

Question 12

Entrance Exam
moral statements from Jutta

Answer 12

‘Is it right to do something because everyone else is doing it’
‘Lie to yourself, Werner, but don’t lie to me’

Question 13

Von Rumpel
Age

Answer 13

‘not too old that he can’t be promoted’

Question 14

Von Rumpel
Family Values (x2)

Answer 14

‘suffers his absences without complaint’
‘sacred resolve, proud accomplishments and unparalleled in history’

Question 15

Volkheimer
Brutal

Answer 15

‘inure himself to the suffering of other beings’

Question 16

Time in School
Feeling of success (@ start)

Answer 16

‘part of something so single-minded’ ‘such a hunger to belong’

Question 17

Time in School
Weakest (#1) x3

Answer 17

‘feeling annoyed’ - ‘why hadn’t he practiced’
Wondered if ‘some part of him wants it to happen’

Question 18

Time in School
Weakest (#2) x3

Answer 18

‘some people are weak in some ways .. Others in other ways’

‘is this not wrong, but here is it right’

Frederick is stronger than Werner in ‘every imaginable way’

Question 19

January Recess
It doesnt matter

Answer 19

‘it doesnt matter what i want’ … ‘father needs me’

Question 20

January Recess
ur problem

Answer 20

‘you still believe you own your life’

Question 21

Prisoner
build up of negative

Answer 21

‘gradual’ build of ‘great dread’

Question 22

Prisoner
running away

Answer 22

‘pure longing to flee’
‘Run. Run’

Question 23

Prisoner
werners internal reminder

Answer 23

‘the hunched miners’ ‘enormous chains’ ‘everyone trapped in their roles’

Question 24

Prisoner
werners action

Answer 24

‘like all the others’

Question 25

Prisoner
fredericks recognition

Answer 25

‘he recognises there is something there’

Question 26

Entropy
what is entropy

Answer 26

‘degree of randomness or disorder in a system’

Question 27

Entropy
Nazis values

Answer 27

‘we (Nazis) represent an ordering to that chaos’ ‘greatest project human beings have ever embarked on’

Question 28

Practice with Volkhiemer
Werner’s justification

Answer 28

‘only numbers’
‘pure math’

Question 29

Practice with Volkhiemer
Werner’s feeling of confliction

Answer 29

‘being what everybody agrees is good’
‘he is betraying something’

Question 30

Description of Frederick on Werner

Answer 30

‘liability’

Question 31

Description of Fredericks condition

Answer 31

‘stuck in some terrible middle ground’

Question 32

Werner finishing school and being put into the military

Answer 32

‘you are very lucky’
‘to serve is an honor’

Question 33

Werners deployment
Entry into Army

Answer 33

‘no trumpets, no ceremony’

Question 34

Werners deployment
burning cottage

Answer 34

‘everything leading to this moment’

Question 35

Werners deployment
Child getting shot - justification

Answer 35

‘they do as they’re told’
‘they get scared’
‘name me someone who does not’

Question 36

Werners deployment
reflection on freddy

Answer 36

‘but in the end it was Werner who pretended there was no choices’
‘Werner who stood by as the consequences came raining down’