Monday, December 14, 2009

IRL 10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/kristallnacht-remembered/7197.html
Interview Video
BBC in 2008
Were are getting a German Chancellors point of view of what happen in Nazi Germany to help avoid something like Kristallnacht and the genocide from happening again.
I think it enhances what're studying because we get view points from historians on the matter how Nazi Germany used genocide but never really get the value of using a famous woman who has no intentions of lying shes German and has big shoes to fill as Chancellor and it maybe still a touchy subject to talk about Genocide in Germany were seeing a first person point of view on the matter and how she believes it should be prevented from happening again.
Limitations are trusting the Chancellor, because we honestly don't know her full intentions just from this interview.

Monday, December 7, 2009

IRl 09

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436275.stm
News story
Raffi Berg of BBC news
This connects to what we are studying in class because its essential about the Nazi Germany's Holocaust and there eventual denial of it happening. It enhances what we've learned in class because one gets first hand reports of the people in the Holocaust and what they saw in the death camps. Which helps the side whose trying to prove that the holocaust did enfact happen.
So limiations of this are one of the quotes is from a SS guard he may not remember eaxactly what happened due to his age or may try to defend or not defend the Nazi regime. Another is the fact that many say it didn't occur while many say it did its a debate going on for a long time.