AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY
PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS:
“MEMORY AND BATTLEFIELD TOURISM”
JEREMY MOSIER
United States Air Force
Robert Busek
HIST122 – Western Civilization After the Thirty Years War
17 January 2016
The pain that came from World War I was felt across the nation, not only by the Germans who were being blamed for the war, but by the families who lost their loved ones in this epic battle. For those families and the Germans overcoming a tragedy was tackled in a variety of ways, deciding which was the proper way was in the eye of the beholder. Some approached overcoming their pain by aggression, while others sought out answers by visiting where their loved ones were in their last living moments. “World War I left deep …show more content…
“Faced with both liberal and right-wing uprisings, diplomats from around the world arrived in Paris in January 1919 to negotiate the terms of peace, though without fully recognizing the fact that the war was still going on not only in the city streets, where soldiers were bringing the war home, but also in people’s hearts” (Hunt, et. al., 851). Many people did not know how to handle the ending of the war and the loss of their friends and loved ones. The anger they had was not something that could be turned off, and was turned into hatred of many things. “As I love Germany, so I hate the Republic,” one of the German military officers wrote (Hunt, et. al., 851). The war had put a negative taste in the mouths of its people and they were outraged to say the least. This disgust lead to more radical forms other than just being in the form of text. “Urban citizens and returning soldiers ignited the protests that swept Europe in 1918 and 1919” (Hunt, et. al., 851). Protests were not the only method that returning soldiers participated in, they also formed volunteer armies, which prevented the return to peacetime politics (Hunt, et. al., 851). “As political turmoil engulfed peoples from Berlin to Moscow, the Paris Peace Conference opened in January 1919” (Hunt, et. al., 852). Although these conferences were set in place to please the disgruntled people, French premier Georges Clemenceau witnessed first-hand how difficult that would be. He had to “satisfy angry citizens who were demanding revenge or, at the very least, money to rebuild and pay off their nation’s war debts” (Hunt, et. al., 852). This would be no easy task when considering that the war consumed nearly “1.3 million people – almost and entire generation of young men – and more than a million buildings, six thousand bridges, and thousands of miles of
PRIMARY SOURCE ANALYSIS:
“MEMORY AND BATTLEFIELD TOURISM”
JEREMY MOSIER
United States Air Force
Robert Busek
HIST122 – Western Civilization After the Thirty Years War
17 January 2016
The pain that came from World War I was felt across the nation, not only by the Germans who were being blamed for the war, but by the families who lost their loved ones in this epic battle. For those families and the Germans overcoming a tragedy was tackled in a variety of ways, deciding which was the proper way was in the eye of the beholder. Some approached overcoming their pain by aggression, while others sought out answers by visiting where their loved ones were in their last living moments. “World War I left deep …show more content…
“Faced with both liberal and right-wing uprisings, diplomats from around the world arrived in Paris in January 1919 to negotiate the terms of peace, though without fully recognizing the fact that the war was still going on not only in the city streets, where soldiers were bringing the war home, but also in people’s hearts” (Hunt, et. al., 851). Many people did not know how to handle the ending of the war and the loss of their friends and loved ones. The anger they had was not something that could be turned off, and was turned into hatred of many things. “As I love Germany, so I hate the Republic,” one of the German military officers wrote (Hunt, et. al., 851). The war had put a negative taste in the mouths of its people and they were outraged to say the least. This disgust lead to more radical forms other than just being in the form of text. “Urban citizens and returning soldiers ignited the protests that swept Europe in 1918 and 1919” (Hunt, et. al., 851). Protests were not the only method that returning soldiers participated in, they also formed volunteer armies, which prevented the return to peacetime politics (Hunt, et. al., 851). “As political turmoil engulfed peoples from Berlin to Moscow, the Paris Peace Conference opened in January 1919” (Hunt, et. al., 852). Although these conferences were set in place to please the disgruntled people, French premier Georges Clemenceau witnessed first-hand how difficult that would be. He had to “satisfy angry citizens who were demanding revenge or, at the very least, money to rebuild and pay off their nation’s war debts” (Hunt, et. al., 852). This would be no easy task when considering that the war consumed nearly “1.3 million people – almost and entire generation of young men – and more than a million buildings, six thousand bridges, and thousands of miles of