John Roth tells the story of a German journalist's broken glasses in Fritz Gerlich's Spectacles, in which Gerlich meets Hitler himself, and Hitler makes promises about his leadership that does not maintain. As a journalist, it was easy for Gerlich to publicly display Hitler's opposition to the Munich Post. He exposed the Nazis and their motives for about 12 years (Roth 49). Gerlich was a German who understood what the true purpose of the “final solution to the Jewish question” was. He would not take part in the implementation of the answer to the Jewish question, but instead would present to the people through the media that the Final Solution was wrong. The departure from the group had its consequences, as Gerlich was discovered by the Nazis when he published an article in July 1932 (51). Gerlich was taken by storm troopers from his office, then beaten and sent to Dachau, a German concentration camp. He remained imprisoned there for more than a year and his wife was informed shortly after that he had been killed, without receiving any written message other than her husband's broken glasses. Gerlich's glasses could be interpreted as a metaphor for the time in his career spent disclosing the Nazis' intentions; Gerlich's intact glasses represented his clear view of the historical period and how he could spot what was wrong while the Nazis found no fault in their actions. The cracks in the glass represented the defect