Question

How does the rhetoric of the article help to develop the purpose of the article? Nazi Germany Euthanasia Program Commonlit

Answer 1

The rhetoric of the article helps to develop the purpose of the text by making it very straightfoward, in order to teach people about the "Euthanasia' program. The informational text's rhetoric disregards the emotion behind the facts to further develop the purpose of the article. "The clinics were in reality killing wards where specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses or by starvation" (Paragraph 2). No sugar coating, just reason, logic, and exposure. "Historians estimate that the “euthanasia” program, in all its phases, claimed the lives of 200,000 individuals" (Chapter 3). The rhetoric of logos (logic or reason in rhetoric) connects the euthanasia program to the presucution of Jews, the author also claims that former opressors in these mass murders became current oppressors in the Holocaust . The rhetoric of the article helps to develop the straightfoward non-fictional informational text to show the facts and connections behind the horrid 'Euthanasia' program.

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The rhetoric of the article helps to develop the purpose of it in that the author uses Pathos as the emotional approach to convince its audience.

In the article "Nazi Germany Euthanasia Program," from "Commonlit," the author explains that the Nazi Party used the term euthanasia as a way to clandestine kill disabled people. The author describes how the Nazis did it and that this was one of the first programs of mass murder in Germany. It started in August 1939, and two months later, the Nazis invited the parents of disabled children to take them to pediatric clinics were doctors killed the children.