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last night i read a good 400 pages of articles about world war II. the subject areas i covered:- life in the third reich - the war years, 1939-1945
- german occupation policy, part I - germany's new order
- german occupation policy part II - life under the rule of germany and its allies
- the "final solution" - 1941-1945
I read a 30 page article about intentionalist v. functionalist interpretations of the final solution.
now i'm drinking gin and tonics, waiting for jan to come back from a membership committee meeting so that we can go out for dinner.
tomorrow morning i should be going on a two-day road trip to spokane with my father to see a baseball game, but we haven't confirmed. i imagine that he will just show up tomorrow morning. we've got a scenic route mapped out through norrth-central washington. we'll be able to stop by the grand coulee dam on the way back.
posted by Derrick @ 6:48 PM
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Those articles sound very, very interesting! I have always been fascinated by details about day-to-day life in all of the nations during WWII. My thirty-hour documentary series devotes one hour each to life in Germany, life in Britain, life in Russia, life in America, and life in the occupied countries. Very interesting. And then stuff on the "final solution"! So horrible, but so fascinating to take a look at such a tragic affair and the (il)logic/details behind it.
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