My character is a sixteen year old German-Jewish boy named Kristof Block. His parents own a bakery in Nuremberg. Tall, dark hair, socially awkward, and introverted  the outbreak of the war has caused this teenager to retreat further into his family and diary. Highly intelligent, he is acutely aware of the dangers that surround he…

Chapter 10 of Berlin At War talks about the evolution of the Nazi Party into “The People’s Friend.” One of the most astounding elements of this section is the implementation and leverage of technology. In 1920, the inaugural broadcast from a makeshift station was sent across the German airwaves. Ironically enough, “the German public was…

While I have learned about Hitler’s rise to power in school, I did not know how instrumental German radio seemed to be in the Third Reich’s reign. They seem somewhat primitive now, but in the 1920’s and 1930’s, radios were considered a luxury item, and often far too expensive for the average German (one example…

Being forced to wear a star seems so little but I believe mentally it can be very traumatic. I don’t believe that people should be separated from each other or forced to wear something to show that they are different. I have a hard time coming to terms with Hitler having so much influence on…

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…