A Simple Soldier : A Story of One Ordinary Young Man in Hitlers Germany
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- Time travellers: please don’t kill Hitler.
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He was arguably worse , killing 20 million of his own people to fuel his ideology. But no, Stalin went about his business unmolested by time travellers, all of whom are busy targeting Hitler. But as noble as it seems, killing the Fuhrer via time travel is a terrible idea, for real-world reasons, not just those in fiction.
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Could you actually kill another human being? And of course, some people are just evil. It seems challenging to reconcile these motivations with the mentality that plans to kill Hitler as an altruistic act. All of history to visit, and your first port of call involves killing. When do you kill Hitler? Minority Report struggled with this issue , and that was on a much smaller scale.
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But would this be too late? Once everything has been set up, would eliminating Hitler change anything? This brings us onto another reason not to do it. Stephen Fry dealt with this superbly in his book Making History. Without spoilers, the problem is that many assume Hitler was the sole cause of the second world war and all the associated horrors. Young women belonging to the League of German Girls, the female division of the Hitler Youth, practice gymnastics, German children learn geography in a Nazi-run school in the Silesia region of Poland, October Schools received a new curriculum that focused on racial biology and population policy.
Teachers regularly showed propaganda films in the classroom, and worked racial politics into every part of education.
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Hitler Youth boys play tug of war while wearing gas masks in Worms, People at a resettlement camp in Lublin, Poland receive framed photos of Adolf Hitler to hang in their apartments, Hitler Youth members camp out in a tent at an unspecified location, Members of the Reich Labor Service at work, circa This state-run labor program both helped lessen the effects of unemployment and create a Nazi-indoctrinated workforce, requiring each young man to serve for a six-month period.
Mentally challenged children were forcibly sterilized to keep them from breeding. They were, initially, taught in separate classrooms, but then considered to be "unteachable.
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Members of the League of German Girls put up posters for their group in Worms, A family gazes lovingly at their boy, a member of the Hitler Youth, February A Jewish woman peruses the wares of a street vendor in Radom, Poland, Members of the League of German Girls at work cleaning in a Berlin tenement house, date unspecified. A long line of Jewish citizens wait in line outside of a travel company in hopes of fleeing Germany.
A proud new husband wears his SS uniform on his wedding day in December Nazi party members display election propaganda outside of a church in Berlin on July 23, Boys ceremonially jump over a fire as part of a traditional summer solstice festival in Berlin, Nazi party members post signs on a Jewish storefront encouraging Germans to boycott the shop in Berlin on April 1, Newlyweds admire their rings at an unspecified location, Newborn babies from the Lebensborn Program. Almost 60 years after Nazi Germany's defeat, Hitler remains a polemical figure.
Germans used to regard May 8, as the day they were defeated. Now, they view it as the day they were liberated from Nazi tyranny. The shift has been slow and is not without pitfalls.
In Berlin, the former seat of Nazi Germany, a scandal is currently brewing that has nothing to do with modern Germany and everything to do with the nation's Nazi past. The brouhaha is over how May 8, , the day Nazi Germany capitulated, should be remembered. Local officials of a wealthy Berlin district just passed a motion stating that victims of Nazi oppression are not the only ones who should be memorialized and honored. Regular German soldiers and civilians who were killed as well as women who were raped by the advancing Soviet army, too, should be remembered, they declared.
The resolution has provoked harsh criticism, especially after one lawyer and local politician said that in some matters, he can't help but agree with one of the nation's neo-Nazi parties. Critics charge that lumping all victims together, and going so far as to turn war criminals into victims, dangerously blurs the question of guilt and responsibility for the war. The message of the debate is clear: For us Germans, whether we like it or not, the past is always present. One only has to take a look at a German bookshop these days.
The shelves are overflowing with new publications on every imaginable aspect of the Nazi period. The conflict cost about 60 million lives and obviously it still haunts us. Part of mine, for instance, is that my Austrian grandfather committed suicide in the spring of He had been a simple tailor, churning out Nazi uniforms, but never putting one on himself or fighting.
Still, he had been a Nazi party member and feared revenge from the advancing Soviet troops. As a teenager in the late s, I stumbled upon a box of family photos containing a portrait of a handsome, dark-haired young man in a black jacket with skulls on the collar, the uniform of Hitler's elite SS division.
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My grandmother revealed to me that the man in the photo was Willy, her beloved little brother. Willy joined the illegal Austrian branch of the Nazi party in the s, and was then imprisoned. He escaped and went to Germany, where he joined the SS.