{"id":1269,"date":"2015-05-03T01:51:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:58:45","slug":"foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/03\/foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staying true to the book\u2019s premise, the chapter <em>Unwelcomed Strangers<\/em> was all about giving a voice to those who have not been given one before. Moorhouse stated that \u2018foreign workers\u2019 were seldom mentioned in first-documents in wartime Berlin.&nbsp; They were a substantial group within Berlin (they worked at Speer\u2019s megalomaniacal constructions) yet natives managed to deliberately avoid them in the streets and ostracize them from their diary entries. These foreign workers were easily mistaken for POWs and concentration camp inmates as these three groups often worked side by side. This close association poorly affected the treatment foreign workers received from most Berliners. This was a disconcerting idea because it highlighted the mentality of the time &#8211; meaning, it was acceptable to discriminate POWs and concentration camp inmates and even expected.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter <em>A Taste of Things To Come<\/em> was a beautiful example on how \u201cideas are more powerful than guns.\u201d&nbsp; Falling German flak guns were actually deadlier than British bombs; however, the environment of constant fear and sleep deprivation created by these night raids effectively atrophied German morale. The constant leafleting raids indicated these bombers were about mining the enemies\u2019 confidence and nationalism. All this anti-German propaganda did come to some use because by the autumn of 1940, there was a \u201cdawning sense that the Nazi authorities were not telling the truth about the scale or seriousness of the attacks\u201d (Moorhouse, 157).&nbsp; Meaning, Berliners were starting to question the efficacy and veracity of their government.<\/p>\n<p>Also, German for dummies meine Lieben:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/how-to\/education-languages\/languages-cultures\/german.html\">http:\/\/www.dummies.com\/how-to\/education-languages\/languages-cultures\/german.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Moving on to really useful, educational videos (German Language Compared to other Languages \u2013 it is really funny):<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZlATOHGj9EY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZlATOHGj9EY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying true to the book\u2019s premise, the chapter Unwelcomed Strangers was all about giving a voice to those who have not been given one before. Moorhouse stated that \u2018foreign workers\u2019 were seldom mentioned in first-documents in wartime Berlin.&nbsp; They were a substantial group within Berlin (they worked at Speer\u2019s megalomaniacal constructions) yet natives managed to&#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-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","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=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/17900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}