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Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. Oberstdorf is a beautiful village high up in the Bavarian Alps, a place where for hundreds of years ordinary people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere. Yet even here, in the farthest corner of Germany, National Socialism sought to control not only people’s lives but also their minds. Kol kultūros žmonės puotavo ir žavėjosi kita Vokietijoso dalis beveik badavo ir antisemitizmas visi augo.
Ypač ryški užsienio jaunimo stovyklose kurios buvo labai madoje tarp Anglijos ir Amerikos jaunimo. Susitikimai su valdančiaisiais tikintis, kad vaikai perduos viską tėvams. Pvz britų ambasadoriaus dukrai specialus spektaklis ir susitikimai su politikais suorganizuoti tam jog ji kuo teigimiau savo tėvui atsilieptų apie nacių gėrįThe book finishes with the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945 and Allied occupation along with the De-Nazification tribunals that very imperfectly attempted to punish the guilty. Personal economic circumstances. In the short term, Hitler took Germany from desperation to prosperity and people were feeling much better. Sounds a lot like the 401(k) Trumpers. About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
Some things that were often noticed by travelers: NAZI’s had improved the economy and were loved by the masses for that. Youth were particularly caught up with the movement. NAZI’s were great at spectacles such as the Olympics, rallies and torchlight parades. Many travelers noted that the NAZI’s emphasized the need for annexing (taking) lands around them that had once been part of Germany or which now were seen as places needed as a buffer to protect the safety of the Fatherland. Sounds like a familiar old excuse today. As the 30s progressed, the drums of war began to sound. Attempts at appeasement only encouraged Hitler to demand more territory for lebensraum that would be cleansed of its Slavic and Jewish populations to make room for German settlers. Even as war drew inevitably closer, travelers to Germany returned convinced that all was well. “Despite the new frost in relations with Britain, despite air-raid [preparation] week, despite the persistent cry of ‘guns before butter’ and despite Hitler’s relentless push for a free hand in Eastern Europe, one distinguished foreigner after another returned home from Germany convinced that war was the last thing on the Führer’s mind.” (p. 268) At a time when the anti-Semitic far right is growing across Europe, this is a timely reminder of the dangers of turning a blind eye to it. Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich is among six short listed books in the popular history section of the Italian Acqui History Prize .
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Added to this was the fact that many in Europe and American disliked the French more than the Germans. The French were seen as arrogant, chaotic, and ungrateful for the aid they had been given in the First World War, and were thought to have been the driving force behind the harsh peace terms that devastated Germany. For many people it seemed obvious that the future of Europe lay with the alliance of the Germanic peoples in Britain and Germany, an alliance which would dominate the rest of the world politically, economically, and militarily. British Admiral Sir Barry Domvile (whose support for Hitler’s regime was so enthusiastic the British government interned him at the start of the war), was a true believer in this kind of alliance, and a visit to Germany “confirmed a deep belief, shared by so many men who had fought in the Great War, that without a strong alliance between England and Germany there could be no world peace.” (p. 181)
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