“Indoctrination of German Solider”

· Behind the battle of annihilation stands the lone greatness of the Fuhrer

· He gave ppl back its unity, smashed parties and destroyed organizations; decontaminated body of our ppl from Jewish subversion, created a stock-proud, race-conscious Volk

· His genius has filled them with strength and will

· Our great duty is to sacrifice ourselves to this Fuhrer and strive to be worthy of the historical epoch molded by a heaven-storming will

· The Fuhrer sees the goal ahead: strong German Reich as power of order in Europe and a firm root of German Lebenstaum

· German victory is as certain as our love for each other

· Jews are the embodiment of Satanic and insane hatred against whole of noble humanity

o German racial superiority and achievements entrust it with leadership of Europe

o We must and will liberate world from this plague, this is why the German soldier protects the Eastern front, and we shall not return before we have uprooted all evil and destroyed the center of Jewish-Bolsheviks

“Pacifism is the Deadliest of Sins” Rumbold

Thesis: As an ambassador to Germany, his ideas are assessed concerning his interpretation of Mein Kempf.

· Hitler has been Chancellor for 3 months

· Parliamentary regime has been replaced by a regime of brute force, and the political parties disappeared from the arena

· Hitler tries to lull the outer world into a sense of security

o To ensure stability at home is an easier task. The new regime is confident that it has come to stay

· Hitler has unlimited faith in propaganda

· Hitler has resources of State at his disposal

· Goebbels tries to uproot every political creed in Germany except Hitlerism and to prepare the soil for revival of militarism

· The outlook for Europe is far from peaceful

· Hitler believes that man is a fighting animal; thus, the nation is a fighting unity, being a community of fighters

o Any living organism which ceases to fight for its existence is doomed to extinction

o Intellectualism is undesirable; the ultimate aim of education is to produce a German who can be converted with minimum of training into a solder

o Climax of education is military service

· Germany’s lost provinces can be gained by force of arms

o Thus Germany has to rearm on land and lull their adversaries into a state of coma so that they will allow themselves to be engaged one by one

o Germany needs peace until she has recovered strength that no country can challenge her without serious preparations

A German Jewish Doctor's Diary, Nathorff

• Hertha Nathorff was the niece of Albert Einstein
• She practiced medicine in Berlin and she recorded the constant abuse and humiliation inflicted on Jews as the result of Nazi anti-semitic policies
• However, Dr. Nathorff managed to escape Germany in 1939 before the outbreak of war
• April 1, 1933: The Jewish Boycott
• Young boys with signs saying "don't buy from Jews" and "don't go to Jewish doctors" lined the streets
• "Anybody who buys from a Jew is a traitor"
• April 25, 1933
• A letter from Charlottenburg municipal authorities: "You are requested to cease your activity as a senior doctor at the women's advice center."
• August 30, 1933
• The growing tense atmosphere in Germany is apparent
• October 2, 1934
• One of Nathorff's colleagues goes mad because she could no longer practice, and her license had been revoked
• December 30, 1934
• Growing amount of suicides by people who could no longer stand the continuing defamation and spite
• December 4, 1935
• Growing persecution intensifies
• One woman has her deceased grandmother dug up and is no longer allowed to work as an artist, and she must also give up her boyfriend who is a senior officer
• Nathorff says life is becoming a living death for them
• August 5, 1938
• All Jewish Doctors and Nurses lose their licenses to practice medicine via radio broadcast
• Nathorff says this is how we Jewish doctors learnt of our death sentence

Heinz Guderain - Inadequacies of French Leadership

Guderain explains how the French miscalculated during the war, ultimately causing their own downfall.

Tanks:
Tanks were proven in WWI to be a highly effective weapon, and their development in Germany was only stimulated by the international ban on German tank production.
The French, however, relied on sheer man- and firepower rather than the mobility that tanks provided, and overlooked them as effective weapons.

Military Strategy:
The French army was accustomed to making well-informed decisions according to a set plan, but this methodology was ill-suited to the sudden style of Blitzkrieg.
The French relied too much on permanent fortifications, such as the Maginot line, and so were not able to easily change military plans.
The French assumed that the German army would conduct an invasion exactly as they did in WWI with the Schlieffen plan, and were caught by surprise by Hitler's differing tactics.
The French failed to take advantage of the German's vulnerable position during their invasion of Poland.

George Messersmith: “The Nazis were after... unlimited territorial expansion”

Rob Edwards

George Messersmith: “The Nazis were after... unlimited territorial expansion”

• Messersmith is an American consul general at Berlin

• Reports frequently on the coming menace of the Nazi regime

• says that some of the men running the german govt are “psychopathic cases”

• Martial spirit is being developed, and that everywhere people as young as 5 or 6 all the way to senior citizens are drilling in the streets

• Germany, both the people and the government, has the goal of becoming the most capable instrument of war that has ever existed

• Realizes after hearing of Germany's goals for Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, etc. that they are only interested in unlimited territorial expansion

“A Disaster of the First Magnitude”

Winston Churchill

“A Disaster of the First Magnitude”

Thesis: Churchill attacks the Munich agreement as a failure of the Western powers to prevent the Nazi power from gaining momentum when it had the chance and has therefore jeopardized the peace they were trying to maintain.

· Winston Churchill (1874-1965) delivers a speech on October 5, 1938 in the House of Commons attacking the Munich agreement and British policy toward Nazi Germany

· Churchill begins by stating they have faced defeat in the Munich agreement and the Czechs would of even been better off with the Western powers that deserted them.

· He continues that if a better relationship with Russia had been pursued and early action had been taken then the disastrous state at hand would not have happen.

· Also the peace efforts and forces against Hitler in Germany would have been able to gain strength if early action had been taken.

· Church now describes the politically humiliated and economically mutilated Czechoslovakia, whose banks, railway agreements, and industries are all disrupted.

· Churchill seals the fate of Czechoslovakia by predicting it will be absorbed by the Nazis in despair or revenge

· He now addresses Britain’s previous position of power when they had the ability to stop Germany from rearming and gaining momentum but they are now faced with what they could have prevented.

· Churchill finishes by explaining the danger that Britain and France now face against the Nazi power with France’s allies lost and both countries waiting too long to rearm or take action.

· Churchill states that the British people must know the deficiency of and neglect of the government and the consequences they will now face.

Hertha Nathorff: A German Jewish Doctor’s Diary

Main Idea: German Jewish doctors lose their licenses to practice medicine merely because of their heritage.

Young boys stand in front of Jewish businesses with signs demanding that people boycott these businesses

The Nazis are trying to inflict a sort of psychological warfare on Jews

Jewish doctors asked by the government to quit their practices

German Jewish spirit collapsing

One young German Jewish doctor goes mad as a result of being forced to quit her practice and the terrible things that came as a result

One aryan doctor would rather treat a patient wrongly than listen to the advice of a Jewish doctor

Three German Jews commit suicide as a result of the psychological warfare aimed at them by the Nazis

Close relationships are severed and permanently destroyed between aryans and Jews as a result of the psychological warfare on Jews

One German woman who has never considered herself a Jew is ostracized because her grandmother was Jewish

German Jewish doctors lose their licenses to legally practice medicine despite being trained by top notch physicians and big name universities