{"id":1404,"date":"2015-05-11T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2019-08-18T22:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T22:05:55","slug":"awaiting-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/11\/awaiting-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only imagine how Berliners that lost loved ones felt during this time. Some people were given their loved ones personal items, however, the majority of family members received nothing at all. In addition, family members had to wait to hear of the loved ones demise because the Nazis limited the number of death notices to ten per day so as to not harm public morale. This was an interesting perspective of World War II that I have often not thought about. Usually when I learned about the war, I was taught about the Holocaust and the experiences on the home front for Great Britain and France, but not so much about Germany. The experiences of Berliners are often times left out of the historical narrative. I found this reading to be particularly refreshing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ber-child46s-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17825 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/ber-child46s-300x225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only imagine how Berliners that lost loved ones felt during this time. Some people were given their loved ones personal items, however, the majority of family members received nothing at all. In addition, family members had to wait to hear of the loved ones demise because the Nazis limited the number of death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}