Question

(The Book Thief) One of the strangest claims that the narrator makes about the rise of Nazi Germany was because

A. The German people loved to burn things-anything.
B. The German people needed someone to blame for the way WWI ended.
C. The German people needed a scapegoat for all the problems they faced.
D. Hitler was a powerful speaker and he inspired the German people to follow him.

Answer 1

A.

Step-by-step explanation:

In The Book Thief, the narrator claims that the reason for the rise of Nazism was the German love of burning things. Although the narrator credits anti-Semitism, Hitler himself, and hatred as intrinsic elements of Nazi Germany, he argues that burning was the “one particular activity” that Germans loved.