Berlin

President Ronald Reagan gave an example about one of the US president that was too many times also in Germany, “Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall” (Eidenmuller pp.1). Making weapons was not his main interest, but making weapons that help the US to protect themselves was a good idea. He had the idea of protecting their country…

But a little over a century and a half ago, his music and reputation suffered from anonymity, practically unknown to all except a few professionals, and both Bach and Felix Mendelssohn’s families. Over the second decade of the 19th century in Berlin, Bach’s sons, along with Sarah Itzig, a talented musician and Mendelssohn’s great aunt, obtained his manuscripts and contracted Bach’s work. Meanwhile, Bella Salomon, Mendelssohn’s grandmother, supported Bach’s work “the story of St. Matthew…

the Nazi military. Unlike his father, Bruno is completely clueless about German nationalism during the Holocaust period. Due to Ralf promotion, Bruno’s family including his mother, Elsa, and his sister, Gretel, has to other choice but to move out of Berlin to the countryside near the concentration camp. Despite leaving his friend behind, Bruno still in hope to find a companion at his new isolated home. With the suffocation of…

What's rarely touched upon in histories of WWII is how frightened the people in the Fuhrerbunker (Hitler's last hideout in the center of Berlin) were of what was going to happen to them. Discipline had broken down and most had realized that they were going to either be arrested and tortured or summarily executed by the Red Army when it finally took control city. Few of them still saw Hitler was as being the demigod that he was before and the thought had to be going through more than a few minds…

The main focus in “A Night Divided” is a historical fiction informing life in East Germany during the time of the Berlin Wall. This novel was about a 12-year-old girl, Gerta, which had her family divided due to the Berlin Wall. Gerta, her mother, and her brother, live in the Eastern side of Germany, controlled by the Soviets. Gerta’s dream is to be united with her family and leave this place they all once called home. But one day Gerta’s hopes got up. Her father was pantomiming a dance. A dance…

The Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany. The term Gestapo was created by a postal official from Berlin (www.historyplace.com). ¨It was derived from 7 letters in the name Gehime Staats Polizei¨ (www.historyplace.com). ¨At its peak, it had employed about 40,000 individuals. Each Gestapo agent operated at the center of a large web of spies and informants¨ (www.historyplace.com). Many leftists, intellectuals, trade unionists, homosexuals, and many more disappeared into concentration camps…

that he fell in love with. She had moved to Paris for the same reasons that he did. Taro later died in a car accident. Capa would go on assignments to record daily life in the city. Robert Capa got his first break as a photographer in Berlin, Germany when he saw Hachenperg’s photos and was invited to Leon Trotsky as he lectured on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. At one point, Robert had to teach photography to pay his bills. fRobert wasn’t a saint, but his photos gave so much…

Kephart and Animal Farm by George Orwell, the theme those who don’t try, don’t succeed, is shown by Boxer when he declares he will get up three-quarters of an hour earlier than everyone else to do more work, Stefan and Lukas when they escape East Berlin, and all the animals when the windmill is destroyed, twice, they don’t give up, and still get it done by the two year deadline. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Boxer is the farm’s strongest animal. He is not very smart but he can pull, lift,…

twentieth century. As a battleground to test Aryan Supremacy, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler built the most state of-the-art facilities ever seen at the time. Thousands of people gathered to see some of the best athletes from all around the world compete in Berlin, and taking center stage was the biggest African - American track and field team ever established. Led by twenty - three year old star Jesse Owens, records were demolished in one of the greatest displays of courage and athleticism in…

During 1934 a huge event occurred when the president of Germany was announced dead, Hitler becomes president, but his party immediately insisted Hitler in becoming the dictator of Germany without the people’s opinion for another president. Germans were glad that Hitler took over because Germany was a disaster at that time there weren’t any jobs and the people needed help so they trusted in him. Hitler promised that their problems would go away, make Germany a better country, and getting rid of…