Identify and Analyze an Allusion:

Read the passage and highlight any allusions below.

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers."

-"Letter from Birmingham Jail,"

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Osvaldo Sellers

9 December, 04:36

Identify and Analyze an Allusion:

Read the passage and highlight any allusions below.

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers."

-"Letter from Birmingham Jail,"

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Leroy Steele · Answer 1

The allusions are:

everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary

In the excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. makes reference to the Nazi and Soviet Russia regimes. He means to express how Germans and Russians committed terrible crimes against human beings following the law. For example, it was illegal to assist Jewish people in Hitler's Germany. As a result, he reflects on how the law is unethical in some nations.