Going to war has to be a life changing experience and to be able to come back alive has to feel amazing! It was interesting to learn about how many deaths there were and how that was a drastic improvement from WWI. In addition, I find it fascinating that a simple solider can come back…
The Struggle Continues
Something that I have found out through these readings so far is that when there is a war going on people sort of fail to think about the civilians and what they are going through. The media never shows what is going on with the innocent civilians. It has just made me grateful that I have…
Semester Begins
Classes finally start tomorrow and I couldn’t be more excited considering I’ve been out of school since December. My schedule is full of courses all in German. I’m taking a German language course, German Drama and Theatre, German Art and German Intercultural Communication, which will be a lecture course at the Ludwig- Maximillian University. I will…
Ethnic and Nationalist Propaganda: Nazi Germany and Modern America
In the wake of September 11, 2001, an entire nations opinion about an entire ethnicity had changed overnight. Images began flooding in from overseas of men in turbans holding automatic weapons, covered women, violence, Sharia Law, riots, bombings, anti-American slogans and flag burnings. The media instilled a culture of fear for those who looked like…
Comparison:Ceremony for the king of Central Africa
He named himself as ” Emperor Bokassa I of Central Africa” after overthrowing the president of Central Africa. He organized an insanely expensive coronation that seemed straight out of a movie. He had a mile long cape and a giant gold eagle shaped throne. The ceremony was performed with 3000 lavish guards as well. When…
Surviving Winter Storms in 1940’s without modern technology.
The winters of the year 1940 was brutal for the residents of the city of Berlin. Germany’s waterways from the smallest canals and lake to the greatest arterial rivers, froze solid. Temperatures fell as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. The effect of the brutal weather disrupted the lives of berliners to a great extent….
Business flourishing under the blanket of blackout
“One man’s loss is another man’s gain” In the year 1939 Berlin was covered in a blanket of darkness, a defensive measure to protect itself. Berlin was having total black outs to protect itself from air raids by the British. The blackout was a measure to ensure that plane could not see any sign of…
Berlin Blues
The mood within the city of Berlin shifted with the changes in the war for Germany in 1940. There was a depressing atmosphere because of strict rationing, enduring blackouts, and lost loved ones. Berliners tried to distract themselves through entertainment, such as theaters. By 1941, from the Berliners’ perspective, Germany seemed to have won the…
A Hurricane or War
When reading about the precautions taking when preparing for warm I could not help but realize that it greatly resembled the preparations taken when expecting to be hit by a hurricane. Living on an island on the east coast of Florida, this is the closest similarity I could draw to what was being described in Berlin…
1 September, 1939
A journal entry from Edith Färber, age 10 living in Berlin the morning that war was declared on Poland. This morning started like any other. Mother woke both Hans and I and fed us breakfast, Father had his coffee and went off to work, then the rest of us left for school. Hans and I…