{"id":1104,"date":"2015-04-15T00:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2019-08-18T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T22:09:44","slug":"why-hitler-should-have-payed-more-attention-to-his-history-classes-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/04\/15\/why-hitler-should-have-payed-more-attention-to-his-history-classes-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hitler should have payed more attention to his history classes in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently taking a Fall of Roman Empire class so Speer\u2019s and Hitler\u2019s megalomaniacal attempts of turning Berlin into Rome are somewhat ironic. This empire collapsed into itself due to corruption and the unquenchable thirst for power of its leaders. Hitler seemed to severely lack historical perspective (if Napoleon did not manage it, neither will you) but the \u201claw of ruins\u201d or \u201cruin values\u201d did meet its intended purpose and Germany does have some impressive Third Reich ruins, as the Luitpold arena in Nuremberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nova-Imagem-11-300x213.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17998 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nova-Imagem-11-300x213-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Luitpold Arena was a grandstand with a speaker\u2019s platform and three tall swastika banners, designed by Albert Speer<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As the type of person who color-codes notes, the logistics and implications of the project Germania astounded me. How could the Third Reich be so delirious? First, this massive enterprise intensified the housing crisis: Berlin\u2019s market was already severely under-supplied and under RAF raids. Germania was sustained by thousands of POWs and concentration camps inmates worked under extremely insalubrious conditions \u2013 the pantheon of Aryan supremacy was supposed to be built with the blood, sweat, and tears of the same people the German government ostracized and systematically tried to wipe out.\u00a0 But then again, Hitler was uninterested in the social implications of this project; it was all about his passion for the buildings and the legacy he was creating for himself and the Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p>Unrelated, but I hope Anna and Dr. Norris will appreciate this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/FullSizeRender-300x160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17999 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/FullSizeRender-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Onion, 1914<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently taking a Fall of Roman Empire class so Speer\u2019s and Hitler\u2019s megalomaniacal attempts of turning Berlin into Rome are somewhat ironic. This empire collapsed into itself due to corruption and the unquenchable thirst for power of its leaders. Hitler seemed to severely lack historical perspective (if Napoleon did not manage it, neither&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}