http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2008/07/whos_the_greatest_russian_scie.html Who was the greatest Russian?
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-autobio.html Solzhenitsyn the great Russian author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=HK&hl=zh-TW&v=Xglby1gdDwMHow Hitler lost the War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_qeCNg8fO0&feature=related - Check this 8th Grade Project out. Does he make any errors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KgJQUXr2Ws Hitler Speech - Triumph of the Will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVP3KU-qOzchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58N73cAF97Yhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIJkgpP1hgMunich Agreement
http://www.ukemonde.com/genocide/margolisholocaust.html Gulag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIJkgpP1hg Munich Agreement
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mdzikovs/golod.html Ukraine Holocaust
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920keynes.html Keynes Saw It Coming
http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/guernica/glevel_1/1_bombing.html Guernica
http://incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com/2010/01/defending-leningrad-ww2.html Leningrad
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/franco.html Franco Site
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/SCW/scw.html Lincoln Birgade US troops in Spain fighting for the Communist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lLU5-yji8&skipcontrinter=1Triuph of the Will -Final Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57OG_u2eU0 Beer Hall Putsch- Another Historians account
http://faminegenocide.com/resources/unknown.html Ukrainian Holocaust -Untold Story http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/timeline.cfm WWII Time Line
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/VichyRegime.html Vichy French
http://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/did-the-red-army-defeat-the-third-reich/ Blog USSR killing of the Third Reich
http://www.leni-riefenstahl.de/eng/bio.html Leni
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/dunkirk.htm Dunkirk Evacuation
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/blitz.htm Blitz
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/leningrad.htm Leningrad Siege
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/dday.htm Normandy
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/rommel.htm Rommel's Forced Suicide
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/Stalingrad.html Battle of Stalingrad
http://www.stalingrad.net/highlights/highlights.htm Stalingrad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ussr/6703.shtml BBC Site if it works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TOEH8hIYk&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL471CE9D9075DA2B6 Stips Lecture
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Meredith Steinfeldt
Mr. Lamb
AP European History; B-3
26 March 2014
World War II Blog Post
"… Bombing of Guernica"- PBS
The bombing of Guernica was by no means a mistake. In "…Bombing of Guernica", the author points out that every Monday in the town was a fair, people from “the surrounding hillsides” would come to visit. As much as Germany and the Nationalists denied it, both took part in the attack for reasons of their own. Germany’s Von Richthofen confessed years later “...the concentrated attack on Guernica was the greatest success” meaning although the town wasn’t of ay militaristic value, it provided a place for Germany to test their new Nazi tactic- blanket bombing. The nationalist on the other hand, had plenty of reason. Because “Guernica… [was] the cultural capital of the Basque people, seat of their centuries-old independence and democratic ideals,” the bombing was the perfect opportunity for Franco “to break the spirited Basque resistance to Nationalist forces.” Many believe the story Germany fed to the people “that the target was a bridge over the Mundaca River on the edge of town,” but after looking at all of this evidence, it is apparent that isn’t the case.
"The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944"
For one of Germany’s best generals, the suicide of Erwin Rommel seems both unlikely and suspicious. Not only was Rommel commander of the Afrika Corps, he was also responsible for fortifying the “Atlantic Wall” and repelling “the inevitable invasion of Europe by the Allies.” For such an accomplished and well-regarded man, committing suicide seems careless. As the story goes, Rommel was so disgusted by Nazi tactics that he gave himself away when Hitler was attacked and almost killed. Of course, Rommel wasn’t actually a part of the bombing of Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia, but it didn’t matter. The author points out that “The problem for Hitler was how to eliminate Germany's most popular general without revealing to the German people that he had ordered his death.” Hitler didn’t care Rommel wasn’t even well enough to get out of bed at the time of the bombing (due to an aviation accident) and an innocent man. So, the “solution” was to force Rommel to kill himself, and then to make it look like his death was due to his injuries from the British aviation accident where a plane landed on his car. So, Rommel’s suicide wasn’t a suicide at all; merely the extortion of a man who not only was one of the greatest generals under Hitler’s regime, but of the world.
The first link was about the mass death in Ukraine. Around 7 million died because of Stalin and his secret police. Another 2 million were sent to concentration camps. This was ordered to punish the farmers who resisted collective farming. Most of the death was due to starvation and executions. The U.S did nothing to help the starving Ukrainians, even though they knew about what was happening. The Soviets' murders went, and still go, widely unnoticed in comparison to the Germans.
The second link was about the Battle of Stalingrad. The Germans decided to attack here, not Moscow, as it would be easier and would cut off supplies to the Russian army. The Germans were initially successful, and gained large amounts of territory, but the Soviets refused to retreat from Stalingrad. With huge losses on both sides, the Germans retreated eventually, mainly because of the horrible winter that destroyed their army and air force.
The first link that I went to was on the bombing of Guernica. The most important thing I learned was that the attack on Guernica was planned and it was a test of new Nazi military tactics. I also learned that the attack was conducted with 100,000 pounds of high level explosives. It destroyed 70% of the city after it had burnt for three days. Finally, I learned that 1/3 of the population of Guernica was either killed or injured. I had not known much about the bombing of Guernica but this link was helpful in showing just how severe it was.
The second link I went to was on the storming of Normandy. This link was interesting because it was from the perspective of a woman who lived in Normandy at the time of the attack. She first talked about the planes and cannon fire that started the whole thing. She then went through her fear in the trenches and the fear of others. She talked about the tanks closing in and how her and her neighbor came near death had they not left the area they were in. Lastly, she talked about her questions on when it would all end, what the result would be and who would meet their fate. This link was interesting because I did not know much about Normandy and this it provided a first hand experience.
The first blog I read was on Hitler’s speech to the Reich on total war. It was interesting to see the 14 points of fascism at work in real life. The first point of fascism I noticed was glorification of war. People from across the country were chanting for total war as if it were some great thing and not a bloody hell. They were incredibly nationalistic, too. Throughout the rally the people chanted for the Fuhrer and German pride, indicating another point of fascism. It was also interesting to see how the German’s portrayed the English as asking for war, even though they were not in any way. As a whole it was interesting to have this insight into propaganda used by the Germans and how they rallied the people to believe such radical ideas.
The second video I watched was on D-Day. This video, expertly done by an eighth grader I might add, portrayed the war as it was: bloody and chaotic. The battle itself was incredibly hellish. Omaha beach where the Americans were ordered to invade was incredibly bloody. Within the first ten minutes all officers and sergeants were either injured or killed. But these men did not quit. They fought on to take the beach. They were also aided by the 101st airborne and the 82nd airborne that had flown in and sky dived behind enemy lines the night before and softened the enemy lines. This was depicted in “Band of Brothers” on the history channel, too. Finally, when the battle was over, we had taken the beach and successfully started a new front, helping secure an allied victory.
-Nathan Maves Moore
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