Category: Field Studies

The KLV plan really stood out to me when I was reading. it just showed that Germans were finally coming to terms with their new realities and stand out for me in a change in the war. Most shocking to me was that if you were a kid over the age of ten you would…

Something I find hard to grasp the idea that the Jews just kind listened to what they were suppose to do and went along with the resettlement. I understand that they were all very scared but there aren’t many stories of people trying to do their own resettlement to somewhere else they want to go…

So since I’ve seen several other students post about the progress on their autobiographies, I thought I might show what I have been working on as well. My character is an 18 year old German university student in Berlin. He is naive, idealistic,  a philosophy major, and possibly a member of an underground resistance group…

Something I did not know prior to this reading was the Kinderlandvershickung, or KLV program. The KLV was the NAZI plan recognition of the reality of war and decision to move German children out of major urban areas. The leadership realized that Britain was not going down without a fight. Evacuation of the German civilian…

Diary entry from Edith, age 12. Sunday, October 7, 1940 Today Hans and I had to move. I hear there were 3,000 of us that had to go… most of my friends didn’t. It was awful. They told me that we have to go to Saxony to live with some nice family.  They are splitting…

Diary entry of Edith, 12, living in Berlin.  It is Thursday, September 25. This week there have been four air raids. I am starting to get used to being in the shelter but it the alarm never ceases to scare me. There have been a few times when mother and father haven’t made it back…

Throughout history, the roles of women have always been fluid. During World War II in America and Britain, there were aggressive campaigns to have women come to work in all fields left vacant by men. In contrast, Hitler had a vision of women as homemakers. Mothers were lauded by being awarded annual awards for how…

Hitler’s complete control even penetrated personal, daily life in Berlin. By forcing citizens to say “Heil Hitler” instead of the traditional “Guten Morgen”, he exercised his complete control and thrust the Nazi party onto those opposers. Some member of the capital city especially challenged these guidelines with small victories. There is a recollection from a…

While I admit that I have skipped around to different chapters this reading, I have to say that “Enemies of the State” has been the most interesting of what we’ve read so far – information-wise. First of all, the anti-Nazi nature of Berlin was demonstrated in full within its various resistance movements . From silently refusing  to…

Nazism appeared to offer Germans a bright future. The Nazis wanted to harness as much emerging technology as possible. One example of this is the radio. Although not directly innovated by the Germans, they were able to utilize the “new” technology and made it popular with ordinary citizens. The Germans were able to politically exploit…