首页
登录
职称英语
It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly th
It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly th
游客
2024-05-09
3
管理
问题
It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic. When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10, 000 people--mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany--were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. "I’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1, 200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave--and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.
Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9, 000 dead, including more than 4, 000 children--with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings."
The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable—and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in tile Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使......不得势) the neo-Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they’ve now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowl-edge a terrible tragedy. [br] The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because Germans______.
选项
A、were eager to win international acceptance
B、felt guilty for their crimes in World WarⅡ
C、had been pressured to keep silent about it
D、were afraid of offending their neighbors
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3590118.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]W:WhyareyouSOtiredandupset?M:I’vebeentakingahistory
[originaltext]W:WhyareyouSOtiredandupset?M:I’vebeentakingahistory
[originaltext]W:Hey,Tom!Iheardthatyouareauditingatthehistoryclass.
Everyonehasamomentinhistory,whichbelongsparticularlytohim.Itisth
Itwastheworsttragedyinmaritime(航海的)history,sixtimesmoredeadlyth
Itwastheworsttragedyinmaritime(航海的)history,sixtimesmoredeadlyth
Everyonehasamomentinhistory,whichbelongsparticularlytohim.Itis
Everyonehasamomentinhistory,whichbelongsparticularlytohim.Itis
Everyonehasamomentinhistory,whichbelongsparticularlytohim.Itis
Everyonehasamomentinhistory,whichbelongsparticularlytohim.Itis
随机试题
Manyyoungpeoplebelievegoodgradesandexcellentinternshipswilllandth
哲学是“科学之科学”。
混凝土强度等级是根据下列哪项确定的?()A.立方体抗压强度标准值 B.立方
若用PV操作控制进程P1、P2、P3、P4和P5并发执行的过程,则需要设置
软弱土层通常发生局部整体剪切破坏。
银行业金融机构没有直接的劳动合同关系,但受有关机构派遣到银行业金融机构中工作人员
Thechangeinthatvillagewasmiraculou
国家统计调查项目、部门统计调查项目、地方统计调查项目应当明确分工,互相衔接,不得
根据有效市场假说,下列说法中正确的有()。A.只要所有的投资者都是理性的,
施工现场临时用电设备在( )台及以上或设备总容量在( )KW及以上者,应编制
最新回复
(
0
)