WW2 test next week.
This week's assigned blog is another WW2movie/book review.
The test will be a group text, groups of 3 or 4.
This week is mainly taken up by bruns's uber long WW2 powerpoint- 140-150 slides. we're on #20.
Hitler's Hisotry:
grew up in a middle class family in austria, with an abusive father. he was a prolbem student in elementary school, not because he was stupid but because he didnt get along well with the other kids. he was really good at art, but he didnt get in to vienna art school, where he had wanted to go. worked on the streets doing on-the-spot paintings.
moved to germany and fought in WW1- got along with people, found his calling, felt powerful. then became a speaker, motivator, and in the late 20s became the head of the nazi party.
swastika- the twisted cross. not invented by hitler- its in indian and egyptian culture (indian as in india), more as a symbol of peace than anything. obviously it is no longer a sign of peace. so the nazis hijacked the peace symbol and turned it into a hate thing.
1923, hitler wants to overthrow the weimar republic...failed miserably. so he went around to a lot of beer halls and talked to people, gained a lot of support, gave people a sense of purpose. he got caught, thrown in prison. but during his trial, he became famous. served 10 months in prison. he was really popular though. while in prison, he wrote a book, Mein Kampf (my struggle/battle). in which he painted the picture that jews had a world-domination conspiracy- said they were communists who were gonna make heck on earth. he also justified his ways by saying God told him to, and that jews are the devil. and that jewish men rape german women. Hitler made it look like jews were diluting aryan blood and all that...
Bruns is a fan of Supernatural.
Propoganda: tries to get people to believe or do certain things.
hitler has this quote where he says propoganda has to be constant and simple so everyone could understand it and no one wouldnt know about it. says if people listen to it enough, they can be made to believe everything and anything.
hitler would struggle in today's society- communication. people can get any side of the story, really fast, so its easy to find the facts vs the opinions vs the lies. people nowadays want freedom, and thats that. no one person can be in control of all the media, like he was when he was in charge.
hitler was head of the nazi party, and they owned the german media. they taught everyone from age pre-K the nazi ways. total brainwasing.
done for now.
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