Snapes Dark Mark (was: Jewish Goblins?)

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Entropy wrote:

"Of course, the DE don't correlate with those in the concentration 
camps. If anything, the DE would correlate more closely with the 
Nazis and Hitler Youth. But I still think it's an interesting bit of 
imagery." I realize that the DE's marking was most likely done 
willingly; the concentration camp prisoners' was not.  But the 
imagery is still strikingly similar (to me, anyway! <g>)."



Now my opinion:

I think that Snape is ashamed of his mark that binds him to 
Voldemort.

I think the first time a DE gets his mark he/she is proud of it, 
because it symbolizes the membership to a group which is in his/her 
opinion a group consisting of people who are better than the rest of 
the WW and whole world ("pureblood"). They think about themselves as 
an elite.

In german history during the Third Reich there was a group created 
by Hitler named the SS (stands for "Schutzstaffel"). This group 
consisted of people who were labelled with "Arier" = Aryan 
(="pureblood"). Hitler and his people's ideology said that only 
purebloods were "good people". People who made a good achievement 
and fits in his ideology and made some tests very good could become 
member of the SS. Every member of the SS got a mark on one of their 
upper arms. The mark shows the bloodgroup you belong to. No other 
people in the german army or the other nazi-troops got such a 
tattoo. As most of the people in germany during this time thought 
that the SS was something special because of their selection (it was 
not only the blood which was the entry-card to become a member of 
the SS). The SS was known as an elite organisation in hitler's third 
reich. After WW II all people who had this mark on them were marked 
forever as supporter of the bad nazi-system. Most of them tried to 
hide the mark and not to show it their captors.


I think that the dark mark is a comparison for Hitler's SS. There 
are other similarities with Hitler's Third Reich and the WW II in 
Harry Potter (for example "DD defeats Grindelwald in 1945").
The whole pureblood-thing is based on racism, which is unfortunately 
a certain part of german history shown especially in the time of the 
Third Reich. 

Racism is unfortunately a problem in some european countries and in 
other world countries today, too.

Sorry for my bad english, it is not my mother tongue.

Isto