{"id":916,"date":"2015-03-31T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T08:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=916"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:11:10","slug":"berlin-history-more-than-just-monuments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/03\/31\/berlin-history-more-than-just-monuments\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin History: More than just Monuments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adolf Hitler is viewed as the figure that incited the Second World War and encouraged the creation and implementation of the Holocaust. But in the late 1930s, Hitler was also an incredibly popular figure in Germany. In fact, his 50<sup>th<\/sup> birthday\u2014April 20, 1939\u2014was a huge affair in Berlin. The entire city came out in force on the declared holiday to celebrate the birth of their Chancellor and the F\u00fchrer of the Third Reich, whether they were die hard supporters of his policies or not. A lot of the excitement and sheer thrill of the parade was due to the impressive stage management of the Nazi party, each portion of the parade\u2019s marching and transportation details being planned down to minute details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18083\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hitler-Parade-300x213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18083 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hitler-Parade-300x213-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of Hitler&#8217;s Birthday Parade, April 20, 1939.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While studying the Holocaust and how Nazi policies affected Germany and Poland on our Maymester field study, we will be visiting the area this parade occurred, 76 years and 1 month ago. On May 15 we will spend the day walking around the city to multiple sites and locations; two of which are the Topography of Terror and Holocaust Memorial, right off Wilhelmstrasse and Friedrichstrasse, two of the main streets of the parade as well as the Brandenburg Gate. Additionally, numerous other locations we will be visiting are just a short distance from the central area Hitler\u2019s birthday tour was in.<\/p>\n<p>To be standing in roughly the same area as such a historical event will be truly humbling, particularly now that I better understand where I will be. This is just a small snapshot of my growing anticipation for May. Our entire trip will have thought-provoking and awe-inspiring moments such as this, not to mention emotionally impactful experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adolf Hitler is viewed as the figure that incited the Second World War and encouraged the creation and implementation of the Holocaust. But in the late 1930s, Hitler was also an incredibly popular figure in Germany. In fact, his 50th birthday\u2014April 20, 1939\u2014was a huge affair in Berlin. The entire city came out in force&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18084,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/18084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}