Nurmengard - a concentration camp?, And what about Azkaban? |
 Sep 11 2008, 05:39 AM
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Nurmengard - a concentration camp?
And what about Azkaban? Nurmengard - the "other" prison for wizards, was installed by Grindelwald, as we have learned from DD. In the name of the "Greater Good", of course. Taking a closer look Nurmengard closely resembles the institution of the Nazi concentration camps, and served more or less the same purpose, that is to lock behind bars those who were not wanted by the regime for whatever reason. In Nazi concentration these were members of so-called "inferior races" (Jews, Sinti, Roma, etc.), political adversaries (social-democrats, communists, liberals), and those having a different belief (notably including a number of christian commitments). For Nurmengard we may safely assume a pretty similar combination of the aforementioned larger groups, yet the definitions would be different. "Inferior" would be all those descending from at least one Muggle parent (as well as squibs), the political adversaries would here be all who actively oppose the regime, of different belief those do not care for the blood status. The alledged purpose in both cases would be to re-educate the "disbelivers", and to eliminate all "inferiors" by whatever means. Do you see the parallels? Are the Nazi concentration camps the "model" for Nurmengard? Does the name "Nurmengard" hold any clue as to what we have to imagine? Now what distinguishes Nurmengard from Azkaban? We don't know much about how Nurmengard was protected. A safe assumption would be that all means of magical transport like the Floo network, (side-along) apparition, use of brooms, etc. would be made impossible by counter-jinxes. But what else? Can you imagine? In contrast, we know rather precisely what other measures to preclude escape have been taken at Azkaban. Of course, I'm talking about Dementors being in charge as guards. Their deleterious influence on almost all prisoners (with the notable exception of Sirius) made it impossible for said prisoners to come up with coherent thoughts about fleeing. My question is, if this is not again reminding of a concentration camp, where the personality of the imprisoned was likely to be broken? What are your thoughts? This post has been edited by innkeeper_tom: Sep 12 2008, 12:34 AM -------------------- *** OPAST (and proud of it) *** |
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