Monday, March 26, 2007

Germany at War - WW 2

propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
In the poster Hitler swicthed his attack and invaded the soviet Union on 22 june 1941. The poster says 'Europe's Victory is Your Prosperity'. The poster is anti-Bolshevik. Also Great Britain is shown as graveyard “symbolizing Germany has destroyed Great Britain”
In the picture you can also see Germany threatening a a knock-out to the Soviet Union. the invasion of the USSR is security is show as a baby in a cradle.

Film Lesson:"Schindler's List"

A scene that will stay with me was, when they were taken the kids away from their families, the mothers were screaming, but the kids were innocently smiling, they thought they were been taken on a road trip. The Nazi took the kids, and later killed them. The liquidation of the Krakow ghetto was much unexpected. How people would try to hide anywhere they could. But at the end they would end up being killed.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

I find both films very powerful. i think the Hollywood version and the documentary are very similar. but if i had to choose i would pick the Hollywood version. i think is much more organize and influential. the scenes from the documentary were a lot stronger than the movie though. I remember a part of the documentary that was really strong" were they showed bodies of people, and then next to the bodies was a mountain of heads.

US Atomic Bombing of Japan in 1945

I think that the US atomic bombing of Japan is the #1 news story of the century. because it's entirely change the way we look at war. i believe before the atomic bombing of Japan, war was all about who had the most army and the majority of factories to provide those soldiers with equipments and clothe. but after the atomic bomb, war was about who had the Most powerful and advance atomic bombs.